The Balearic Government which presides over popular Marga Prohens insists on the legalization of homes in flood zones if work is carried out to minimize the risks. This was stated by the spokesperson for the Regional Executive, Antoine Costa, during the press conference that followed the Governing Council, during which he defended that, in the opinion of the Executive, “the most convenient thing” is that these houses can be legalized in exchange for carrying out work aimed at minimizing risks.
“If nothing is done, they will still be there and it seems that “There are parties that want to abandon these people.”he brandished. Costa, in any case, recalled that “You can’t do what you want” because there is a hydrological plan in force.
The spokesperson for the Executive defended the “discretion” in negotiations so that they succeedeven if he declared himself in favor of a negotiation in the broad sense and requested that the possibility of not reaching an agreement on the legalization of housing does not affect the other articles on which negotiations are underway. The spokesperson revealed that the parliamentary groups “exchange formulations and possibilities.
Likewise, during the press conference, Costa said he did not know whether the simplification decree would ultimately be submitted to the plenary session next Tuesday.
On the opposition side, the socialist spokesperson in Parliament, Iago Negueruela, this week accused the president of the governmentMarga Prohens, of “endangering people’s lives” criticizing the “lack of commitment” of the leader of the Executive when negotiating the ban on building or the legalization of housing in areas prone to flooding. What the socialists did not do during the eight years they governed the Balearic Islands and did not move on this issue.
The opposition is now demanding that buildings located in areas at risk of flooding be excluded from the “urban planning amnesty” on rural land and that new developable land cannot be classified as flood zones. prohibit new construction and changes in use of ground floors commercial projects to build housing in dangerous areas.
Likewise, they propose to remove the possibility of creating public facilities and to prohibit any intervention on buildings outside of flood zone planning.
