For whom has the Coastal Law been made?

prohens visited Formentera twice in a short time during the pre-campaign and the electoral campaign. And the main message was studied: “We will fix the issue of the xibius and the little houses” in public domain.

‘We will fix’ meant ‘we will make the necessary regulations to legalize businesses that have made fortunes and family constructions that for years have had no permit to occupy the land that belongs to everyone’. But then, what is omitted now with the new Coastal Law that the Government has registered in Parliament as a bill: this depends on the State.

No autonomous community has managed to stop a demolition if Madrid, which retains a very important part of the authority within the public domain, applies the Coastal Law.

The Balearic norm copies the argument that the PP used in the Valencian Community: inventing the patrimonial value of these buildings, most of them xibius with no interest beyond the shady business they have been offering for years. It can be discussed whether in Formentera a division with a smaller strip should have been made, due to being a smaller island. But, until this changes, the law is the same for everyone, and communities like the Valencian one, which have already gone part of the way, know that state courts overturn these ventures.

So, what do they intend with the Balearic Coastal Law? The same as the rest of the communities governed by the PP that have made it similar: to gain time and wait for Sánchez to fall to change, as they did in the past, one of the most important laws in the State. The norm they want to get rid of says it very clearly: in the public domain there should only be what you cannot place anywhere else. This is not the case of a bar.