The Platform against the Land Law believes that it has been approved with an "unsustainable excuse"

"The Government of the Canary Islands has restricted the participation of society and the necessary public debate to the minimum of the legal limits, with the unsustainable excuse that the possible "minor defects" of the proposed text will be fixed in Parliament". That is the message that the Canary Islands Platform for a Sustainable Territory has launched this Monday, which unites citizens and organizations from all the islands mobilized against this bill.

In a statement sent from the Lanzarote Board of this Platform, they criticize that CC and PSOE have approved this Monday the text in the Council of the Government of the Canary Islands "under the lures of job creation and the simplification of administrative procedures". Faced with this message, the Platform emphasizes that "the drastic change of model in the consideration and management of the territory" that this law implies "has generated a wave of indignation among technicians, social organizations and citizens".

For this reason, they are once again demanding the withdrawal of this preliminary draft and the "opening of a process of debate and social participation on the management of the territory", which they denounce has not existed. And it is that they insist that the citizen participation they demand has nothing to do with the parliamentary debate that is now opening, which is what the socialist vice president of the Canarian Government, Patricia Hernández, has appealed to in order to justify her vote.

In its press release, the Platform, which includes political parties, unions, associations, groups and professionals from all the islands, recalls that its objective is to "answer the substance and the forms" of this Law. To this end, this Lanzarote Board has invited "the Lanzarote society, organizations and independent citizens" to join and participate "in the platform for study and opposition to the text proposed by the Government of CC and PSOE". For this, they make available to those interested the email address [email protected] and the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/porunterritoriososteniblelanzarote.

In Lanzarote, Somos Lanzarote, Nueva Canarias, Vecinos Unidos, the Cesar Manrique Foundation, Urban Transparency, Intersindical Canaria, Ganemos Lanzarote, U.G.T, Podemos, Izquierda Unida, Comisiones Obreras, Alternativa Ciudadana 25M and the Association Los majos de la Degollada are currently integrated in the Platform.