Legal doubts and political anger surround the end of the Doñana law

2023-09-19 22:29:25

Seville 09/19/2023 at 23:51 CEST

The text is ready for voting amidst legal doubts and a great political row, and despite the unanimous rejection of the scientific community, warnings from the EU and UNESCO.

The Commission for the Promotion of Parliament of Andalusia has had his last meeting to approve the opinion of the bill that will expand the irrigated hectares in the northern crown of the Doñana National Park. The norm will reach the plenary session for final approval next week, coinciding with the investiture debate of Alberto Núñez Feijóo in the Congress of Deputies. That will take away national focus, the opposition slips that that is why the PP has chosen that date, but certainly not decibels in the political fight between the Andalusian parties. The law is rejected by the scientific community, which warns of the “dramatic” moment that the Park is experiencing in the middle of one of the worst droughts in its history. We are facing “the biggest social, institutional and political crisis in a long time” around the nature reserve, he warned in Parliament last June Miguel Delibespresident of the Park Participation Council.

In this last meeting, the left made clear its categorical rejection of the norm seeing the light and the promoters, PP and Vox, they continued without changing any content regarding the text registered six months ago in the Autonomous Chamber. All amendments presented by environmentalists and assumed by the groups of Por Andalucía and Adelante Andalucía, were lying down

As the Government of the nation has already announced that the text will be used Constitutional Court, considering that it invades powers because the water of the Guadalquivir Hydrographic Basin is the exclusive responsibility of the State, legal doubts about the law were especially present. The PSOE even said that the norm was drafted with the “Ozores doctrine”, in reference to the actor and comedian Antonio Ozores, whose language is rushed and unintelligible. The PP requested that the parliamentary committee’s lawyer review the text “ex officio” before sending it for full approval, but the PSOE opposed it. If there is any technical modification, the commission would have to meet again, which is outside the calendar if the rule is to be approved next week.

Land revaluation

The proposed law to improve the management of the agricultural areas of the County of Huelva, in the municipal terms of Almonte, Bonares, Lucena del Puerto, Moguer and Rociana del Condado (Huelva) It will be approved as it was registered except for some technical details. The opposition did not hide their astonishment and disbelief at the PP’s decision to move forward despite all the severe warnings received in recent months.

These lands located in those municipalities of Huelva, about 30 kilometers from the National Park, will immediately revalue their price, up to multiplying it by ten. when going from dry to irrigated, although farmers will not have water. It is about 1,600 hectares that in 2014, when it came into force after a decade of litigation and modifications, a strawberry management plan, were reclassified as dry land or forest land. The Junta de Andalucía assures that of the 650 farms affected, about a thousand farmers, will be reviewed “case by case” and half will obtain irrigation licenses, about 750 hectares.

“It’s an aberration”

Maribel Mora, from Adelante Andalucía, considered that the law “means amnesty for illegal irrigation.” “Is an aberration and shame for Andalusia. They become the gravediggers of Doñana and the European Commission is going to put the tombstone with fines that we will all pay,” he warned. From For Andalusia, Inma Nieto, lamented: “I thought we were not going to get to this point.” The left-wing spokesperson warned of the damage to the reputational brand of Huelva products in foreign markets where buyers value sustainability and criticized it for going ahead “despite the review that the scientific community has given them”. “They are going to give permits to many who have been producing illegally,” he considered.

He socialist Mario Jiménez He recalled that the PSOE in the Board and the PP in the Government of the nation were able to reach an agreement in 2014 with the scientific community and the Doñana Participation Council to organize the strawberry plantations in 2014. “Of 15,000 hectares that are In limbo, 9,400 were resolved,” said the socialist. His criticisms were also of the legal technique of the law, “a botched, language of (Antonio) Ozores” that he regretted will be reviewed “due to its significance beyond our borders.” “The right has allowed itself to be carried away by the denialism of the extreme right when for the first time UNESCO has threatened to remove the classification as World Heritage Site and after having humiliated the scientific community“, considered Jiménez, “this opens a war and is irresponsible.”

From the PP, Manuel Andrés González, said that the opposition continues “without having read the law.” “No farmer is going to be amnestied, they lie. “The PP has not promised water to farmers, that is a lie, no one has deceived them,” he noted. “The PSOE are the only ones responsible for the unfair situation they are going through, we have had our hand extended until the last moment, we only want to compensate for the damage caused by previous governments,” explained the popular one.

The deputy of Vox Rafael Segovia He defended that his party’s position is totally compatible with the conservation of the park because “it does not touch the water and it is an act of justice.”

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