The Arrecife merchants' association Adenca has expressed this Tuesday its "disagreement" with the Preliminary Draft of the Land Law of the Canary Government, and wanted to "join" the platform that has the support of social organizations such as the César Manrique Foundation, the UGT, CCOO, IC, FSOC and COBAS unions, Salvar Canarias, environmental organizations, political parties such as Nueva Canarias, Podemos and Izquierda Unida, and even the former presidents of the regional Executive Paulino Rivero and Román Rodríguez, or the former president of the Cabildo herreño, Tomás Padrón. "In total, more than a hundred signatories and, as of today, with ADENCA", the merchants point out. "The Canary Islands are not a plot of land and there is no room for another block in Lanzarote", they defend.
"The traitors of the Canary Homeland want to facilitate speculation and the plundering of our land", they point out, considering "a real madness" that the Preliminary Draft of the Canary Land Law "intends to facilitate powers to the town councils to do whatever they want with their land, facilitating without control the speculation and plundering of our land to powerful businessmen, who would also turn us into submissive slaves".
Adenca points out in its note that the Canary Islands is "the fourth Spanish autonomous community with the most cases of urban crimes, which affect 40 percent of the Canary town councils, which are immersed in judicial processes for urban crimes". In his opinion, the new law "will turn the municipalities into the new kingdoms of taifas in urban planning matters".
An "irrecoverable damage"
"Just thinking about the illegal hotels in Lanzarote, for example, and considering that we are a Biosphere Reserve, the damage that would be caused would be irrecoverable for this land", they point out. They also consider that this Land Law "is going to promote the speculative economy more than the productive one".
"The saddest and most surprising thing is that from the Cabildo of Lanzarote they literally say that the Land Law simply intends and pursues that the little that can be done today in the Canary Islands is materialized and not hindered by so much administrative, bureaucratic and regulatory tangle", they add.
The association of merchants also emphasizes that CCOO and UGT, which promote the platform against the preliminary draft of the Land Law of the Canary Government, "threaten to call mobilizations if the Executive does not withdraw the text before it reaches the Parliament and initiates a real process of consensus".
For Adenca, the preliminary draft law "implies that the natural heritage of Lanzarote will be ceded to private capital so that they can create wealth for a few and raises fears of the degradation of the natural spaces of the island".