After a tense debate in the Balearic Parliament around the Autonomous Law on Administrative Simplification, which went ahead this Tuesday and will allow housing on rural land to be legalized, the PP has mistakenly validated more than 30 Vox amendments that go beyond their own measures and that take the Balearic regulations back to previous decades in environmental matters and the normalization of the Catalan language on the islands. As a result of this ruling, the popular people have asked that the vote on the Law approved this Tuesday be repeated, but the extreme right party has opposed this. For this reason, the Government has announced that, as soon as the regulations are published in the Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (BOIB), it will approve a decree law that prevents the proposals incorporated by mistake from coming into force.
Among the amendments introduced and that had been proposed by those of Santiago Abascal are the suppression of Catalan in public service and the authorization to build in areas of maximum protection, in addition to being able to build in areas of coastal servitude, legalizing golf courses and go back in areas of equality and gender identity in education. After Vox refused to repeat the vote, the economic vice president of the Executive, Antoni Costa, immediately announced the approval of a decree that invalidates the amendments, approved, he has specified on several occasions, due to “human error.”
On the other hand, the administrative simplification decree will allow legalizing and building homes on rural land, as the PP Government had proposed, also including those that are located built in areas at risk of flooding waiting for another decree law to be approved that prevents this and that will prohibit new constructions in these places – although authorizing the carrying out of works in those already built, among them those aimed at avoiding overflows -. The measure has been fervently criticized by the opposition, which sees in it a “breakdown of consensus” regarding urban planning discipline on the islands as well as a succession of policies of “territorial perversion and abuse” promoted by the former popular presidents. Gabriel Cañellas, Jaume Matas and José Ramón Bauzáof which, in the words of the Més per Mallorca deputy Maria Ramon, the current Balearic leader, Marga Prohens, is “a worthy successor.”
During the tense debate held this Tuesday in the Balearic Parliament, the Minister of the Presidency and Public Administrations, Antònia Maria Estarellas, asked the left, however, to “not criminalize the PP for putting people’s lives at risk.” “I don’t think this is the debate or the meaning of this decree that we want to move forward,” he stated.
In her turn to speak, the socialist deputy Mercedes Garrido has criticized that this Law actually seeks to benefit private businesses, which will be “favored” by the suppression of the Balearic Environment Commission, the “à la carte” legalization of the industrial estate of the Majorcan municipality of Campos – whose irregular situation motivated an arduous investigation by the defunct Anti-Corruption Office, a complaint today in the hands of the Prosecutor’s Office – and the “legalization of business in the hands of speculators, who see their home prices rise.”
“Curiously, the interests of the Government always lead to Campos,” Garrido slipped. And, among other episodes that affect this nucleus, in 2013 the Justice Department put an end to one of the territorial attacks that have generated the most impact in Mallorca, related to the construction of up to 68 apartments, a swimming pool and an illegal restaurant in Ses. Covetes, at the end of the virgin beach of Es Trenc. The license was granted irregularly in April 1992.
The PSIB-PSOE: “The PP will go down in history for breaking the consensus”
At one point in his speech, Garrido recriminated that, this Tuesday, the PP bench “will go down in history” for “breaking the consensus” around urban planning discipline by allowing developments and public facilities to be built in risk areas, which the vice president of the Government, Antoni Costa, and the popular parliamentary spokesperson, Sebastià Sagreras, have disgraced him from their respective seats, the socialist has addressed the latter to reproach him that they still had a turn to intervene, challenging him: “Be brave and come here!”
Immediately afterwards, he accused the popular ones of “coming to talk about the poor families who will be able to carry out renovations due to leaks, when what they will do is legalize chalets and that Sagreras knows well, because they are all in his town,” he stated. Precisely, the PP spokesperson was mayor of Campos when the town’s City Council promoted the reform of the municipality’s subsidiary regulations to declare the Ses Covetes lands developable, despite successive judicial resolutions issued in favor of the demolition of the apartments. in one of the longest judicial battles in memory on the islands (almost two decades in the hands of the courts).
With the approval of the Administrative Simplification Law, Garrido has complained that it will “disproportionately” increase the urban pressure on the territory thanks to the regularization of “houses with tropical gardens, swimming pools and tennis courts” and will increase tourist pressure on the natural environment through the “construction of parking lots on the beaches and the excessive consumption of water.” “Climate change is the biggest challenge of our time, but this law looks back,” he stressed.
Along these lines, the parliamentarian has lamented that, “without the misfortune” that occurred in the Valencian Community as a consequence of the DANA that devastated several municipalities at the end of last October and left more than 200 dead, “today it would be completely normal to build in flood zones, legalize and reform illegal houses. And, despite this, they will allow works to be carried out in flood-prone areas.” “Today, the PP is telling citizens who have done things the right way: ‘you are stupid.’”
Podemos: “The decree will favor the usual ones through à la carte urban planning”
For her part, Unidas Podemos deputy Cristina Gómez Cristina Gómez has criticized that, with this measure, “urban planning is favored” and “the usual ones are favored through à la carte urban planning.” “And it’s not a way of speaking: all the people who have houses that should be for farmers are suddenly big asses. “They have eliminated the Environment Commission, considering it a political body and have replaced it with a single political position.”
Similarly, the Més per Mallorca parliamentarian Maria Ramon has criticized that the decree will be “the open bar for the massive destruction of the territory”, while Josep Castells, from Més per Menorca, has lamented that this Tuesday is “” a very sad day for ecological balance and the fight against climate change in[e Balears“, acusando además al PP de estar ”en manos de negacionistas climáticos [en alusión a Vox]. Instead of moving forward, we go backwards,” he stressed.
Precisely, the deputy spokesperson for the PSIB-PSOE, Marc Pons, spoke about this at another point in the debate: “Who does the PP need? To the deputies who have fled, with them carry out these policies. Thanks to the vote of turncoat deputies, and that is already a democratic setback. They have missed an extraordinary opportunity. “They disguise it as administrative simplification, when it is legislative deregulation.”
The Government: “The situation of defenselessness is not caused by the PP”
From the Government, the vice president and Minister of Economy, Finance and Innovation, Antoni Costa, has assured that “no home that cannot guarantee its safety in the event of a meteorological emergency will be legalized in a risk area,” as he stated when asked by Mercedes. Garrido and Marc Pons, who have criticized the “hidden interests” of the decree law.
For her part, Councilor Estarellas has assured that she understands “everyone’s concern, but the situation of defenselessness towards our citizens is not caused by the PP but by all those who have had responsibility for government, especially in municipalities.” “It feels bad to me, but the predecessor brand of Més per Mallorca, the PSM, in Santa Maria led the ranking of permits for illegal works on rural land for many years,” he stated, “so I think that the ‘santamariers’ “They will be happy, at some point, to be able to try to legalize something.” “This debate a little escapes us from what the political acronyms are,” he said.
In this sense, he has concluded that in the face of this type of buildings “you can do nothing or try to do something to improve and, everything that involves improving, legalizing, and protecting people is everyone’s responsibility.”
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