The plenary session of the Constitutional Court (TC) has admitted the PP's appeal against the decree law of the Generalitat that regulates housing for tourist use, approved in November by the Parliament of Catalonia. The unconstitutionality appeal presented by fifty popular deputies alleges, among other arguments, that the enabling budget for the use of the decree law does not exist, that the regulation represents an invasion of state competence and that it violates the principles of equality and security. legal.
The TC will forward the demand to the Congress of Deputies, the Senate and the Government, as well as the Parliament of Catalonia and the Government so that they can appear and present allegations.
The new regulation requires apartments for tourist use in 262 Catalan municipalities where there are problems with access to housing or a high concentration of tourist apartments to obtain an urban planning license, which will last five years, and establishes a ratio of ten tourist homes. for every 100 residents, which would force the closure, according to Government calculations, of some 28,000 units in 47 municipalities. In the case of Salou, for example, of the 6,000 existing ones, around 4,000 would close.
The socialists agreed with ERC to validate the decree in exchange for processing it as a bill, including amendments, and that the new regulations would be definitively approved at the latest in the last plenary session next March.
