• Andalusia A deputy throws sand on Moreno's seat to denounce the desertification of Doñana

Maribel Mora (52), of Adelante Andalucía, jumped to the fore when she threw sand from Doñana on the seat of the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, to draw attention to the state of the Park and protest the Law proposed by the PP and Vox.

He explains that "it was a very tense and unpleasant situation. It's the first performance I've ever done. I have a very serious profile, as a lawyer and jurist. Until that moment I didn't know whether to do it, but I was so outraged that I decided. I wanted to get attention," he tells LOC.

"Television only takes out what the microphones pick up, but it was tremendous. The guests insulted me calling me everything, slut, whore, wild things, right there, the strawberries ... The president of Parliament (Jesús Aguirre), indignant with what I had done. I was going to pick up the sand but they wouldn't let me, and he stopped the plenary session so that a worker could do it in a second."

He believes that "it is true" that in the years of the PSOE in the Junta de Andalucía "nothing was done". But that the Law of the PP and Vox is not as they tell it. "There is a law that classifies the land around Doñana since 2004. There are rainfed people who have been there illegally and who from 2004 to 2014 have punctured the aquifer to change to irrigation. The idea of the Law is that in the future, when the transfer is ready, they can have surface water." But the state says it doesn't take charge. "They're not going to close the wells. And the Doñana Biological Station has a terrifying report of their situation."

Maribel Mora e the moment to throw the sand in the seat of Moreno.EFE

Maribel was born in Huelva, although she moved to Seville to study law and in this city she stayed, in the Macarena neighborhood. She is single and has no children. He has two sisters; She is the daughter of an industrial expert and her mother is a housewife. None of them were politically involved or particularly left-wing.

But she always had concerns. "I have been a human rights activist since I was very young. Defense of human rights, people in situations of exclusion, specifically prisoners. Also migrants, homeless, women in prostitution ...". He has been a member of the Association for Human Rights of Andalusia since 1994.

She is very involved with the situation of prisoners. "The first time I entered a prison, when I was 23 years old, I was already a lawyer, and already involved in activism; It impacted me a lot. Within Spanish prisons, human rights violations are daily, continuous and very strong. The invisible ones that the system confines in a prison and throws away the key." He is also concerned about "migrants and seasonal workers in the greenhouses, who live in a subhuman situation and nobody solves it."

The Law of Yes is Yes arises. "It seemed to me an advance but they have done very badly the communicative management. I think machismo ends in other ways. Sex offenders should have powerful re-education processes so that when they leave prison they do not harm anyone again. They have not been brave."

Since I was little I was always "left-wing, I voted for that the first time, and I have always had a social concern. As a teenager I was critical of the system, and the people I have related to were of the same profile."

She declares herself an animalist, she is against bullfighting, because "they are animal torture and I hope we can see soon the prohibition of bullfighting. It seems to me a savagery. "I think there is more and more animal awareness, and young people are increasingly aware of respect for animals and nature."

He hasn't eaten meat "for about 25 years. Nor Serrano ham, which is a live piglet that they have killed. Fish still yes, although I still have to take the step; I have a vegetarian conscience."

In his free time he spends meeting friends, going to the movies and the theater, drinking beer, hiking, walking with his 4-year-old dog, adopted of course -the previous one also adopted, he had it for 17 years-, going out to the countryside with friends who have animals, reading ... "Now I'm reading Saving the Fire by Guillermo Arriaga. And I've also finished Jen Gunter's Menopause Manifesto. I read mostly at night, I love to fall asleep reading. Better than watching TV, in it I only watch news, news, what has to do with my work and little else. "

It claims not to be fair, although this next Seville Fair will have to step on it a lot. "Well, it's pre-campaign. I will go with the comrades of the party to institutional acts that invite us and little else. And I don't dress in flamenco, not even for the campaign."

Nor is it rociera or very Easter. "As a child in Huelva I did like her, and I was the sister of a brotherhood. But later, when my religious ideas shifted to atheism, I left. I don't participate much. Unless friends come from outside because I take them to see things. I am clear that Holy Week is something cultural and identity of Andalusia. Each one lives it as he wants, and it is something that can only be understood being from here, as there are non-believing people and that they are little chapels. For example, I took some friends to see the Christ of Burgos, they sang a saeta and my hair stood on end and tears came to my eyes."

What the PP argues about Doñana

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Juanma Moreno wants to recognize the right of these farmers to be on their land and to be able to use water when there is water on the surface. At no time does the PP Law speak of the Doñana aquifer.

The aquifer is not touched. The Andalusian Government proposes that the illegal wells be closed definitively. Irrigation shall be done only with available surface water from surplus basins. These lands cannot be irrigated until there is no such surface water. The State must make the hydraulic infrastructures to which it committed and comply with the transfer that would make possible the arrival of those surplus surface waters that have been 5 years late.

Those who now say that they defend Doñana are the ones who have allowed aquifers to be violated for years without seeking solutions. The PP affirms that it is surprising that it is the Government of Sánchez that is spreading that Doñana is in danger, when it has not yet fulfilled the commitments it acquired by law five years ago to face the water deficit in the area. A law approved in 2018 contemplates hydraulic infrastructures competence of the State to carry water on the surface. Sánchez has always had in his hand the solution to the problem of Doñana and has not implemented it.

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  • Huelva
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  • Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla

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