They gave themselves a month to reach an agreement on Doñana and the final approval in the Andalusian Parliament of the Irrigation Law was paralyzed, which would pardon 700 hectares of Northern Crown lands that would go from rainfed to irrigated, but After this time, there is still no project agreed upon by the parties, Board and State, on how to proceed in the National Park. Faced with this situation, the affected farmers rebel and demand that the normal law return to the House so that it comes into force as soon as possible.
The negotiations are being complex and, although both interlocutors affirm that there is a will to reach agreements, the truth is that this company is taking longer than expected, a month of margin that the president of the Government of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno, had himself. made public. If no progress had been made on this matter within a month, he pointed out, he would reverse his course and the law would be approved in a timely manner.
“We are working well,” declared this Friday the third vice president of the Government and acting minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, who announced that “in the coming days” they could present the agreement. Something far from reality for the Board, as Ramón Fernández-Pacheco, spokesperson for the regional government and Minister of the Environment, pointed out this morning before the microphones of Canal Sur. “We continue to work hard” but the agreement “does not exist today,” he stated.
The controversy was paralyzed in extremis a few days before receiving the final approval in Parliament after years of avoiding obstacles, including the dissolution of the Chamber due to the early calling of elections. It was on November 3 when a statement between the Board and the State announced an agreement between administrations that surprised everyone and everyone. They gave one month to reach a consensus on the area with a red line established by the Board, “not leaving the farmers behind.” Offering an alternative future for them and the inhabitants of the area was the premise with which Ribera started, who also assured that they would hold meetings with all those affected.
The Government of Spain has held a first and only meeting with the farmers, according to the Platform in Defense of the County Irrigation, and, with the deadline expired, it has asked “in writing” the groups promoting the initiative and the two Governments that "it is our wish that the Bill - agreed upon with them - goes to the plenary session on November 29 and 30 for its final debate and vote," explained the collective's spokesperson Julio Díaz.
“We have never trusted the will of the Government of Spain to come up with a solution,” he expressed, “and we no longer expect a proposal on the table that we can study,” which is why they advocate resuming the controversial law since, His opinion "contains the solution to correct the errors and repair the damage to the families and do justice with the recovery of their lands," he concludes.
