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Date Published: 17/02/2022
ARCHIVED - Cruel and unfair: Alicante ordinance banning begging is met with fierce opposition
The civic ordinance for Alicante city has been slammed for "attacking the fundamental rights of homeless people...and punishing the weakest"
Alicante's controversial new Civic Coexistance Ordinance, which amongst other things bans organised begging in the street, has come under fire once again, with opposers arguing the ruling "attacks the fundamental rights of homeless people and focuses on punishing the weakest instead of creating a Social Inclusion Plan to end inequality".
The ordinance includes 24 restrictions which also outlaw prostitution and a ban on going bare-chested in the street.
But it's the focus on begging and sleeping on public thoroughfares that has caused outrage, with the spokesperson of the Provincial Executive Committee of PSPV-PSOE party, Patricia Macià, blasting the ordinance as "intolerable, cruel and unjust".
"It is going to make Alicante an inhumane city that criminalises the most vulnerable groups such as the homeless", she added.
Also read: More homeless people in Alicante as a percentage of the population than Madrid and Barcelona
Those opposed to the new document claim it goes against the most basic and fundamental rights of people, arguing that the solution is "not to punish the most vulnerable who live on the streets", but to end social inequality by creating a Social Inclusion Plan "so that no one is left behind".
The Compromís party has also slammed the ordinance, and is urging Alicante City Council to "withdraw it immediately".
"Intending to fine poor people living on the street and prostituted women up to 3,000 euros is a shameful ordinance because it attacks the most vulnerable people.
"It is an unsupportive, cruel and shameful initiative, which even in the case of prostituted women equates exploited women with exploiters. Such a thing has no place in the provisions of a democratic city council," the party spokesperson said in statement, adding that the group plans to propose the Valencian Government step in and reject the ordinance.
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