The state spokesperson for Podemos, María Teresa Pérez, intervened this Monday in the controversy sparked in recent days by the singer Manu Tenorio, who stated that a house he owned in the town of Sanlúcar de Barrameda was being squatted by his tenants: “Manu Tenorio is a defaulter who encourages the false discourse of squatting and who discredits certain anonymous tenants who, according to him, do not pay him. “Here we are going to defend the tenants who do not have, like him, an intervener willing to lie and who cannot defend themselves on equal terms against a public figure.”
Podemos approved the version proposed by the tenants last Thursday in the program “And now Sonsoles” of Antena 3, in which they denied having stopped paying and were paying the monthly installments directly to the Treasury to settle a debt with the Treasury.
“What is happening is that Manu Tenorio has a very large debt with the Treasury and therefore the Administration demands that the tenants pay it directly to the public coffers and in addition they have to repay the singer’s debt. So that’s what they are doing, so it’s enough to point out and encourage the discourse of the extreme right,” said the Podemos spokesperson.
The singer’s lawyers and Manu Tenorio himself have repeatedly denied having debts with the Treasury, but they have denied having “deferrals, like any neighbor’s child.” The truth is that the Treasury applies the figure of “deferral or advance” to taxpayers’ debts, so if Manu Tenorio admits to deferring payments with the Treasury, it could mean that he actually has a debt with the Treasury.
The tenants and the president of the community of neighbors where the house is located told “And Now Sonsoles” that the house also had damage to the ceiling of a bathroom and that the owner, Manu Tenorio, had not repaired them. The singer’s lawyers denied this and claimed that the house was in perfect condition.
Moreover, this Sunday the singer added noise to the controversy by asking on his profile on the social network X if “to be a tenant you need to have a contract”. Manu Tenorio wanted to imply that, in the absence of a written contract, they would be squatters. This fact, if true, would leave open the question of why the singer did not report the alleged break-in of his house at the time. Another possibility is that the rental contract was signed verbally, which does not mean that it is not a legal and valid contract, as provided for in article 1547 of the Civil Code.
