The Canarian Association of Holiday Rentals (ASCAV) has reported in a statement that 858 allegations have been made against the Holiday Rental Law that is being processed in the Parliament of the Canary Islands.
In addition, more than 4,500 opposing manifestos from private citizens and 580 more from associations, federations and businessmen will be presented to the regional Parliament.
ASCAV has strongly criticised the technical difficulties in the citizen participation process launched by the Ministry of Tourism last week.
A process "plagued with technical difficulties that prevented citizens from expressing their views: need for registration on an external platform, emails considered spam, impossibility of using corporate emails, comments subject to approval by Parliament, lack of registration of contributions, technical errors of the platform (error 404), etc.", the association specified.
ASCAV has taken the opportunity to thank "all the people who persistently managed to express their opinion after several hours of trying".
The Association, aware of the restrictions it was going to face, has collected in parallel, in one week, the 4500 manifestos of private owners mentioned above, as well as the 580 manifestos of companies, associations and professional federations.
All of them will be handed over to the Parliament of the Canary Islands "to record that citizen participation in relation to this bill goes far beyond the disastrous application of a website that made a more massive participation of citizens technically unfeasible".