Parliamentary groups in Congress rejected the 2020 rescued People’s Party (PP) bill to re-authorize hunting and sport and commercial fishing in national parksThey accuse the PP of using electoral strategies, a measure that they label as “outdated” and “underwork”.
This was expressed by parliamentary groups at a plenary session held this Tuesday at the Congress of Deputies, where the PP advocated its targeted measure. Amendment to the National Parks Law No. 30/2014a norm promoted by his own party while in power, as other formations have emphasized.
People’s deputy, César Sánchez Pérez, argued that he was in favor of the legislative initiative, which was a response to the “Spain empty because of impossibility” problem. “abandonment” attributed to government management and public authorities responsible for national parksand a ban on hunting on farms located in these areas.
The draft law, presented by PP in December 2020 and discussed in the Parliament today, aims to recapture the era created by the 2014 National Parks Regulation for Turkey. hunting ground owners In these environments they will reach agreements where they can continue to hunt and fish.
This compliance period was already foreseen by the 2014 law, which sets a 6-year deadline until December 2020 for the adoption of such measures. private voluntary agreements agreements with beneficiaries that cannot be reached.
Suggestion “little worked”
Therefore, almost the entire parliamentary belt criticized that the PP “saved” this measure when the moratorium ended two years ago, and decided that: no hunting in national parksas socialist Eva Patricia Bueno Campanario recalled.
The intervening lawmakers – with the exception of Isidro Manuel Martínez Oblanca (of the Foro Asturias party) – criticized the initiative as “outdated”.
“Even the descriptive wording hasn’t changed” in these two years since the bill was born in December 2020, Bueno Campanario said, making it ugly. offer “understudied”.
Before blaming PP, “The extension of the compliance period is unfounded because it would require the lifting of the ban that has been in place since 2020.”create a problem in a place that does not exist“.
Juan Ignacio López-Bas from Ciudadanos also expressed his rejection of the bill; Vox retracted some sort of vote between hunters and fishermen“.
“It’s their law that prohibits hunting in national parks,” stressed López-Bas. hunting and sport and commercial fishing are “incompatible” with the protection of these protected areas.It is considered to be of high ecological value.
“When the (moratorium) expired on December 5, 2020, they submitted this bill on December 4, 2020. They did it to adapt it to the rights of third parties in the lands declared as a national park,” the deputy summarized.
Serve the “hunter lobby”
Less than a year before new general elections are to be held, López-Bas said, “They now want to do in 10 months what was previously envisioned to be done in 6 years.”
García Nieto, assistant to United We Can Ezequiel, also underlined for his part: In Spain you can hunt in “87% of the entire national territory”. but that said “not enough” to the popular ones he pointed out. serve the interests of the “hunters lobby”.
Vox MP Francisco José Contreras Pelayo also did not support the proposal, and put it in a “Self-correction” that stays “halfway”“Added agreements that were not reached with neither the PP government nor the PSOE government, as it is not intended to lift the ban on hunting and fishing in national parks, but encourages voluntary agreements with the owners of the hunting grounds.