Podemos Canarias Sopesa transferred a complaint against the new urgent decree to expedite the construction of housing approved on Monday in the Regional government Council, for an alleged “violation of the principle of public faith”.
The party proposes to coordinate legal initiatives with other forces at the state level and constitute “a common front” with environmental platforms and ecologist groups “to stop this deregulating drift” of the regional government of CC and PP.
In a statement, we can affect that this new decree, with which it seeks to expedite the processing of licenses, “is an unprecedented assignment of public functions to private interests, eliminating the technical filters of the municipalities and opening the door to urban corruption.”
The coordinator of Podemos Canarias, Noemí Santana, emphasizes that a work license is a public administrative act and that “only the official can grant it with legal validity because only the official enjoys public faith.” In this line, he adds that “replacing that function for reports paid by promoters is to convert urban planning into an opaque market, with very serious consequences for the general interest,” Santana warns.
Santana insists that “this goes far beyond expediting procedures. It is a model where who pays, decides, and that has no place in a transparent democracy.” Podemos Canarias analyzes that this decree “is not an isolated exception, but a new piece of a deregulator regulatory framework” initiated last year with the approval of Decree Law 1/2024, of urgent measures in housing.
This introduced “worrying modifications” such as construction in endowment soils, the reduction of procedures and the joint hiring of work and project. “That decree already showed that the Government of Clavijo is not interested in the right to housing, but to facilitate real estate businesses” with a “tailored to speculators,” emphasizes Santana.
In addition, he denounces that the norm invades local competences recognized in the Statute of Autonomy: “We talk about a unilateral decision that undermines the principle of municipal autonomy, and has not even been informed to mayors and mayors. It is an authoritarian policy to the service of private interests, not of common interest.”
“We are not going to stay with crossed arms while they turn the Canary Islands into a site for the ball. We are going to act in the institutions, in the courts and in the streets. This territory has limits, and ours are social justice, legality and defense of the common good,” says Santana.
