DEFENSOR DEL PUEBLO BACKS
VEÏNS DE PARCENT'S PETITION


















Veïns de Parcent held a press conference on
friday 2nd February to announce the report
issued by the Defensor de Pueblo, the national
Ombudsman based in Madrid, into the
petition presented by our association and
backed with 1700 signatures.
The Defensor de Pueblo confirmed both the
findings and the resolution adopted in November
by the Valencian Ombudsman (Sindica de Grueges)
stating again that the three PAI provisionally approved
by Parcent Town Hall should be suspended due to
the lack of a favourable water report from the
Confederación Hidrografica de Jucar. The report
also confirmed that neither the Town Hall or the
Mancomunidad de Regentes (the local water board)
has the authority to give this guarantee and backs
the Sindicas suprise that the Town Hall were
happy to approve the PAI without such a report.
This advice is not only given to Parcent Town Hall but also
Conselleria de Territorio who are charged with
examing the plans for approval. We thus wait for
the response of the Town Hall and Conselleria to
this new rejection of the PAI by a state institution.
However as neither the Town Hall or Conselleria
have responded to the original Sindic de Greuges
report issued in November, with a deadline of
30-1-2007, we have little faith that they will take
any notice of this new backing for the petition of
Veïns de Parcent. We once again urge Parcent
Town Hall to listen, not only to the people of Parcent
but to the Sindic de Greuges, the Defensor del Pueblo,
the TSJCV and the European Union.