Mallorca: Balearics take housing grant rules to court
Palma, Mallorca: the Balearic government authorises its lawyers on 13 November to challenge Spain’s housing grant rules in the Supreme Court. The rules provide direct grants to regions that have designated areas where the housing market is under pressure. Government spokesman Antoni Costa calls the royal decree “deeply discriminatory”.
The government says Spain’s Council of Ministers approved the decree without taking account of its objections. It argues that the rules breach the principles of equality between regions and political autonomy, and intrude on Balearic powers over housing.
The government’s lawyers will also examine a decree-law extending rental contracts, ratified by the standing committee of Spain’s Congress of Deputies. The Balearics may challenge that measure too if the lawyers find it intrudes on their powers. Costa says the full Congress had previously rejected it and that his government’s view of it is “not very favourable”.
Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com