The Popular Party councilor in the Teguise City Council, Jonás Álvarez, has presented a motion to the municipal Plenary requesting the modification of the Regulatory Ordinance on Citizen Security and Coexistence in order to expressly exempt the application of Art. 19 to the residential tourist center of Charco del Palo. It should be remembered that Charco del Palo is divided between the municipalities of Haria and Tequise.
Despite the nudist nature of the area, Teguise has regulations that include the prohibition of transiting or remaining completely naked in public spaces or roads, as well as in open and easily visible private spaces.
"It is paradoxical that while Haría promotes Charco del Palo as the first naturist town in Spain, with national and international repercussions, the Teguise City Council rule prohibits going naked in the street," says the Popular Party councilor, Jonás Álvarez.
Although in its origins, in the sixties, it was created as a small tourist urbanization, over the years Charco del Palo has consolidated as a small population center in which people of various nationalities coexist.
"The approximately 136 residents and the tourists who choose this area to spend their holidays live their daily lives in a naturist way, exercising the freedom to dress or not, as they choose," he points out.
"This daily reality, assumed by all, cannot be outside the Municipal Ordinance since it could even be the case that, under its protection, complaints could be made by people opposed to this practice," says Jonás Álvarez, who highlights that it is simply a matter of expressly including the exceptionality of Charco del Palo within the prohibitions contained in article 19 in the text.