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"Mr President, I would like firstly to thank Mrs Fourtou for the work she has done in the Committee. She has taken an open approach and we have been able to discuss many compromise amendments, and we also know that she has had a difficult job to do, because this is an issue in relation to which you cannot imagine the number of different interests at play and hence the pressure we face.
I would like to make it clear that, firstly, thousands of European citizens have lived in the Valencian Country for decades, millions visit us every year and that these people are happy to live in our Community and are happy with the high-quality services which they generally receive in their daily lives. We are therefore talking about a welcoming Country. The majority of people there and those who want to come feel that it is a fortunate thing to be able to share their lives with us.
It should also be noted that the majority can resolve their problems properly before the courts and be dealt with by certain local authorities in many places. But many people’s problems are not resolved, and we are currently faced with huge numbers of people whose problems persist. I am therefore dismayed about the fact that, over the last three years, complaints about land-planning abuses have increased very considerably.
As a European citizen, born and resident in the Valencian Country, I sincerely regret that we need to hold this debate, but we must remember that, if this is the case, it is due to the fact that the complaints presented in this Parliament have been from thousands of European citizens who feel themselves to be victims of land-planning abuses. I wish to state clearly that we are facing an exceptional situation in Spain and in the rest of Europe, which, we should remember, has led to formal protests by seventeen European Union ambassadors.
Other Spanish regions have laws similar to the LRAU; the head of the Autonomous Secretariat for Land-Planning and the Environment came here to say that that law was very good. Despite having similar laws, they have clearly never had a problem of this scale.
I would therefore like to say to you that it is right that we should deal with the citizens’ concerns, I believe that the authorities wanted the delegation that went there to make proposals, and I believe that that is what the Committee has done. I believe that we must demand respect for the citizens in the face of economic groups with immense power, and against which the citizens often have little defence. I believe that we have the power to make a contribution to what Mr Iturgaiz suggested: not to have to repeat this debate and to be able to put an end to this situation. If we do not promote these solutions now, it is clear that in the future, unfortunately, we will have to face this problem all over again.
As I said, as a citizen of the Valencian Country, I want these problems to be resolved and for the incompetence of a regional government not to spoil our image, as is happening in the eyes of many European citizens, because our Community does not deserve that."@en1
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