Jesús Maeztu, Ombudsman in Andalusia, would already warn in his last annual report that "the reality is that poverty is present in a large part of the population." The figures speak for themselves of absolute inequality.

43.2% of Andalusians living under this risk, equivalent to 3,620,684 people, according to a report by the Andalusian Network for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion (EAPN-A). 12.8% would be in extreme poverty.

"We have insisted on having an encounter with Susana Díaz with five writings". Maeztu clarifies that this is a sector of the "population that survives with an income of less than 332 euros per month per consumption unit". Another million people sleep on the streets without a social shelter to stay.

Faced with this bleak view, Vega began his third hunger strike on October 10th to ask the Junta de Andalucía and the central government for an account. The first strike started a year ago.

"In November 2016, it was ten years since the Statute was approved. In article 23 we talk about the guarantee of a basic income using a very important concept such as the dignity of the human being to receive this help, " affirms Público.

Paco Vega is currently 65 years old and has been in the social services of the municipality of Málaga, struggling as a worker with families in very disadvantaged situations and dependent children.

"I'm tired of seeing people in the containers looking for food or the endless queues in the social dining room of Santo Domingo here in Malaga," clarifies Público.



No chance of getting a political agreement

The beginning of the first hunger strike last November and its continuation in March of this year allowed Vega to get in touch with senior officials of the Junta de Andalucía, to talk about the remoteness of the Andalusian Government with this "unbearable "Situation.

"During the second strike I arrived at 29 days without a bite.

In April 2016, I had two meetings with the Equality Counselor, Mª José Sánchez Rubio, two others with the Deputy Minister, Manuel Martínez Domene, and three with technical staff from the Ministry ".

Vega's claim was clear: include a heading in the budget of the Board for 2018, in addition to initiating the framework of the law of basic income Andalusian.

However, the negotiations came to a standstill in the month of July, without being resumed to date.

"We have insisted on having an encounter with Susana with five writings."

The last one dated on November 14. They only tell me, from their cabinet, that the president's agenda does not have 24 hours a day and that she can not help us."



The raw history of Demetrio

Paco Vega has had, in this third strike, a fighting companion from the neighboring city of Granada: Demetrio Cano, 52 years old, has joined the basic income group to ask for their rights.

"I met Vega at a meeting of social groups in my city and from there my struggle has been very close to being one of the victims of this process"

Demetrio worked until 2012 as a union link for Workers Commissions. The crisis left him at that time at a serious crossroads. "Without possibilities of finding another job for others," he exclaimed.



After five years, Demetrio would rely on unemployment for twenty-four months, undertaking personal projects with a company that so far has not allowed him to live off his work. "When the aid ends and your age does not allow you to enter the labor market you have it increasingly difficult," Demetrio explained.