SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Canarian Platform for People Affected by the Coastal Law (Pcalc), José Luis Langa, will address the general director of the State Coast and Sea, Ana María Oñoro Valenciano, to request that the Coastal Law collect a exceptionality for the Canary Islands given the singularity of the territory, just as it applies to the Balearic Islands and other areas of the Peninsula.
As José Luis Langa explained today at a press conference, “we have been waiting for more than six years for the mixed commission that was signed between the Platform and the Government of the Canary Islands to be activated and we only received long delays from the regional government, so We have no choice but to upload one more stay in our requests”.
In this sense, the president of the Pcalc indicated that they want to know why the process of transfers from Costas del Estado to the Canary Islands was stopped; They also ask the General Directorate of the Coast to suspend the evictions until the transfers are resolved and demand that the mixed commission, signed in 2016, be operational.
Langa indicated that an “acceleration of the evictions by Costas is taking place in all the municipalities of the Canary Islands affected – more than 60 nuclei – and many of them are unemployed because we have had to resort to the courts, but this is a process that It will be over in a moment.”
In addition, the also lawyer added, “you cannot prosecute an issue that is political and that must be resolved by the Administration.” That is why he will also ask to meet with the Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera.
For the president of the Pcalc, “it is incomprehensible that the Canary Islands do not enjoy exceptionality in the Coastal Law, since we are an island whose tradition and economy are linked to the sea.”
At the same time, the Platform will continue to demand that the Cooperation Protocol between the Government of the Canary Islands and the Canarian Association in Defense of the Interests of Those Affected by the Coastal Law be put into effect, since “the parties involved have never met They are the Government of the Canary Islands, the Cabildos, the municipalities, the Fecai, the Fecam and the Platform itself,” adds Langa.
