Faced with the wave of speculative works throughout the country, the expert in Urban Studies and content creator Erik Harley (@Preferiria.Periferia) created the concept Pormishuevismo. It was the year 2019, when Harley decided to name "a false constructive movement" in order to denounce speculative, corrupt, gentrifying and "sausage-making" projects in Spain.
Since then, the artist, with his white construction hat and his communication skills, has accumulated millions of views on social networks and nearly 400,000 followers on Instagram. In addition, he has also written a book under the concept Pormishuevismo in which he collects the history of urban planning scandals such as those that occurred in Benidorm or Marina D'Or and bringing to the present characters such as Ruiz Mateos, Calatrava or Jesús Gil, among others. "The name of this -ism is as obscene, excessive and testosterone-fueled as the stories it brings together," he wrote in the book's presentation.
The artist has also visited the Canary Islands, specifically Lanzarote, to talk about one of the illegal hotels built on the island's coastline. The video published on social networks, which already reaches 733 thousand views, shows "the threats to the natural paradise of the Canary Islands." In addition, he adds that although during the 1980s the Law of Natural Spaces of the Canary Islands (1987) and the Law of Coasts (1988) were approved, thus protecting more than 40% of the Archipelago's surface, in recent decades "destroying the territory of all in the name of the benefit of a few seems to be back in fashion."
Harley took advantage of his video on social networks to talk about the case of the Sandos Papagayo hotel (Papagayo Arena), next to the Natural Monument of Los Ajaches, in Playa Blanca. The Contentious-Administrative Court number 5 agreed in 2022 to the full execution of the judgment issued in 2011, which declared the building permits null and void, the completion of work permit and the two plots of the Las Coloradas Partial Plan. In addition, it requested the "restoration of the urban and territorial legality infringed"
However, the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands dismissed its demolition last December, requested by the Cabildo of Lanzarote two years ago. In addition, it urged the Yaiza City Council to resolve the legalization procedure.
"It is one of the symbols of the most corrupt era of Lanzarote, when the then mayor Juan Francisco Reyes was living with illegal licenses," concluded the content creator.
