The former Minister of Territorial Policy, Carlos Espino, is clear that Fernando Prats, drafter of the Special Territorial Plan, delivered in May all the documentation that the Government group asked him for and that the report, prepared by Gesplan, which considers that the text lacks a sustainability report and environmental content, is nothing more than "a smokescreen" by the Canary Coalition to "delay its approval".
A report that for the former minister has been "made to order". "It deserves the same confidence as the resolution that exonerated the Minister of Fisheries, Marcos Páez, from his complaint for illegal fishing", Carlos Espino has assured, "that same confidence that the Government of the Canary Islands and its satellite companies deserve".
The former Minister of Territorial Policy is not worried about the "responsibility of Fernando Prats", since he assures that he complied with the contract, but about the responsibility of the Canary Coalition that since May "has blocked everything that involves declassifying beds". And the attitude of the Canary Coalition, according to the socialist minister, responds to an "evasion of their responsibilities", because at the time he kept the second revision of the PIOT stopped, trying to "prevent these beds from being declassified". In this regard, he recalled that in May, Inés Rojas also committed to the Biosphere Council that in a few months the complementary leisure plan would be included in the PTE, after assessing the results of the "contest of ideas" with "his favorite mayors", as Espino defined at the time the round of consultations that was opened to provide suggestions to the document.
With this report, the processing of the PTE is paralyzed again. A situation that does not surprise Carlos Espino since he has stated that "we know that he has spent two years of legislature without doing his homework in urban planning matters". Carlos Espino has accused the Government group of blocking the approval since May, that is, since the drafting group delivered the document.
On the other hand, Carlos Espino, assured that the Socialist Party was not represented in the board of spokespersons this Monday, since Miguel Ángel Leal has been there because "he is still a spokesperson because we have not been able to change him due to a technicality of a legal nature", since the Socialist Party "would not have tolerated this type of procedure".
