The groups that organised the protests against tourist overdevelopment on April 20th have announced that they will hold further protests after summer.
The groups claim that “far from listening to more than 200,000 people who took to the streets calling for a change of model, the island governments have not hesitated to utterly reject their demands.” Those demands included a tourist moratorium, an “ecotax”, a ban on property sales to non-residents and the halting of projects that do not meet environmental laws.
Instead, the groups claim that ” abuses of the islands have continued, such as the approval of new hotel licenses, the repeal of the Climate Change Law or the advancement of the centralized energy model.”.
They claim that the island’s governments “continue to see our natural spaces as places to be exploited for tourism, they continue with the expansion of airports, they continue to propose more infrastructure such as trains, roads and much, much more.”
The groups claim that “our demands threaten the privileges of people who are few, but who hold a lot of power. Therefore, one demonstration is not enough to achieve the real change we need. We need to continue and send them a message they seem to have forgotten we are more than you.”
