The most serious DANA of the century in Spain has made the Balearic Islands react. The popular Government of Marga Prohens has “reflected” after the tragedy in Valencia and will not allow construction in flood-prone areas. This was announced by the Executive’s spokesperson, Antoni Costa, at the press conference after the Governing Council, where he indicated that they are currently negotiating with all parliamentary groups the possibility of including a series of amendments to the administrative simplification decreewhich the Parliament will approve next Tuesday.
The Government spokesperson has indicated that they are in the last phase of processing the Administrative Simplification Bill and now in Plenary it is necessary that the amendments have unanimity, that is, that “no one opposes their presentation.”
Costa has avoided giving specific details about these amendments because they are still “being negotiated”, but he has wanted to make it clear that they have the purpose of “give maximum guarantees of safety and prevention regarding possible future events that may occur as a consequence of DANAs”.
“The enormous catastrophe that has occurred in Valencia and other regions has to lead us all to reflect and probably will mean a structural change“, noted the vice president of the Balearic Islands, while adding that “we have to get used to the fact that for about three months a year, in this region of the Mediterranean, we are in a risk zone.”
The Minister of Economy and Finance has also indicated that next Tuesday they will announce several “consensual” amendments that go in the direction of limiting construction in the flood-prone areas of the Balearic Islands. However, the spokesperson stressed that “the reflection” that DANA has led us to goes beyond what may happen next week, “it has to lead us to review whether the protocols that are currently in force respond to this situation or not“.
In this sense, Costa recalled that, looking to the future, the Government has doubled the amount for cleaning torrents It has already allocated five million multi-annual euros to build hydraulic infrastructure. “This is the path we are going to follow, because security and prevention are absolutely basic,” he stressed.
After being asked whether the DANA has been managed well by the Valencian Community, the Balearic spokesperson considered that “the time will come when whoever has to assume responsibilities will assume them.” “Now the priority is to care for the victims and rebuild the municipalities and the affected infrastructures,” he stated.
The socialists, in favor
For her part, the general secretary of the PSIB, Francina Armengol, stated this Friday that her party is willing to “recover the ban on building in flood-prone areas” of the Balearic Islands and even protect certain areas for avoid “more misfortunes in the future”.
During a work day with organic and institutional officials of the party to debate climate change and sustainable mobility, Armengol has demanded that this ban be reinstated applied after the Sant Llorenç ‘torrentada’ in 2018.
Armengol has explained that with the transactions proposed by the Socialist Parliamentary Group to the Administrative Simplification Law, which will be voted on Tuesday, “a possibility opens up for the right to rectify and correct the mistake it made a few months ago” in the approval of the decree law, which allows construction in risk areas.
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