The new Statute of Autonomy of the Canary Islands, approved in 2018, will allow the Government of the Canary Islands to assume the competences on the coasts. It is a complicated process, although the Executive of Angel Victor Torres It has been proposed as a goal of the legislature and foresees that the transfer can be completed in summer 2021. The Executive plans to assume these powers in just a few months and the Platform for Persons Affected by the Coastal Law asks him to reactivate his meetings within the framework of the mixed commission in order to guarantee compliance with the preservation and conservation of the coastline of the Islands.
The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, stated in April that “the management and planning of the coastline will be transferred. It is an old demand from the Canary Islands and we hope that the deadlines that have been set can be met Miquel Iceta“.
The fundamental challenge of the discussion framework focuses on the Establishment of the foundations for the uniqueness of the Canary Islands to be recognized in terms of costs. While hotels and urbanizations have been built throughout the Spanish coastal geography, the Administration has also ordered the demolition of enclaves such as For Vito, a fishing village in the municipality of Candelaria that the Coastal Law erased from the map.
Under the threat that the shovels devastate another historical nucleus is the fishing village of St. Lucia, on Güímar. Vanesa Garcia It is a neighbor of this town embedded between the cracks that the stone allows its development.
– José Luis Langa, president of the Association of People Affected by the Coastal Law in the Canary Islands during an interview in the studios of Radio Club Tenerife – Cadena SER / Cadena SER
“I have had this house for more than fifty years. We live here close to one thirty neighbors lifelong. Some are fishermen, there are also workers in the industry. This is where the micro school so that the children go to school “, García says in Today for Today Tenerife. If they knocked the town down, “we would see many neighbors on the street and the emotional impact would be the worst; they would throw a whole life” to the ground, he laments.
“This is the essence of the Canary Islands“In this way he defined Jose Luis Langa to these enclaves. The president of the Association of People Affected by the Coastal Law who will warn you that “it must be preserved; I hope the competencies and their scope be a reality. “
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