SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 9. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The senator of the PSOE and former Minister of Ecological Transition, Fight against Climate Change and Territorial Planning of the Government of the Canary Islands, José Antonio Valbuena, stated today, Saturday, that they are going to fight “too much” for the urban reconstruction decree drawn up in the Previous legislature.
In a meeting at the Tazacorte House of Culture with people affected by the volcano, José Antonio Valbuena stated that the decree presented by the Canary Coalition “does not solve the problems of all those affected, as the draft that was agreed upon did, after of a broad and complex participation process, with the people affected in the last Legislature”.
Valbuena asked people “not to resign themselves to this new reconstruction framework that CC intends to impose, because the affected people lose rights and make it very difficult for them to recover normality.” What’s more, it was offered to the current Government of the Canary Islands and to work together to improve it.
The former counselor highlighted that this decree “leaves many neighbors helpless, taking away the opportunity to recover their life project, since, among other things, it eliminates the opportunity to compensate, at the market value of September 18, 2021 , His properties”.
In addition, he said that it dissolves the opportunity for citizens to be a partner in the reconstruction, by eliminating from the decree the creation of the Consortium, “which was the co-governance body where the affected people had decision-making capacity.” “It is clear, as has been made clear in these five months, that the Canarian Coalition does not believe in citizen participation,” he added.
Valbuena pointed out that with the changes made by Councilor Nieves Lady Barreto, “the neighbors have lost rights and have made it much more difficult for recovery,” while highlighting that with the presentation of their draft “they have exposed the hoax of the unconstitutionality that they have propagated for months to not approve the previous Executive’s draft and make the cuts that they now propose.
“That it was unconstitutional? That the Administration finances the construction of a road, which the neighbors will now have to pay for? That it be compensated with the real market value on September 18, which they have also suppressed? That a consortium for reconstruction? Because all this is what they have cut. And this is not unconstitutional, but immoral,” said the socialist senator.
Finally, Valbuena guaranteed that the PSOE “will continue to stand by the affected people unconditionally, as it has done until now, to ensure that the decree approved by the Government of the Canary Islands provides answers to each and every one of the people.” “.
