The PP in Lanzarote has announced that it will join the "anti-squatting campaign" launched by the party throughout Spain, presenting motions in all the island's institutions. The island president and parliamentarian, Astrid Pérez, also addressed this issue last week in an appearance in the plenary session of the regional chamber.
"The Canary Islands is the third community where complaints have increased the most," says Astrid Pérez, defending "the need to implement comprehensive measures that can stop squatting, while reactivating public housing plans that allow putting homes on the market at affordable prices and that is the direct responsibility of the Government of the Canary Islands." In this sense, Astrid Pérez recalls that "in Lanzarote we have spent 20 years without a single public promotion home being built."
"The illegal occupation of homes is a real and very serious problem, so we cannot stand idly by seeing the defenselessness in which the owners of the properties are, who in many cases depend on the income generated by these properties. Precisely, safeguarding their rights and defending private property are part of the objectives that we intend to achieve with the Anti-Squatting Plan that we have presented in Congress and that we want to be endorsed from local institutions through the motions that we will present in each of them," he announced.
The Plan consists of four measures that the party considers "fundamental": "the eviction of illegal occupants within a maximum period of 12 hours; recover the crime of illegal usurpation that Zapatero repealed; empower the communities of owners so that they can promote legal actions, and guarantee that the most vulnerable have access to public housing."
In parallel, the `populars state that they will participate "actively in the national campaign to collect signatures against the illegal occupation of homes and the impunity with which the mafias are operating." The PP's proposals also include that squatters cannot register or that occupation with violence is punished with prison sentences of one to three years and sentences of three months to one year, in case of incitement.
