The opening of schools during school holidays will be one of the promises that the PSOE mayoral candidates will have to make in the electoral campaign for the local elections on 28-M. The measure, included in the framework program that the party presented this Saturday at its municipal convention in Valencia, is aimed at people with fewer resources and has two objectives: “Collaborate in work-life balance, with adequate personnel and facilities, and guarantee an offer of activities that guarantee equal opportunities, equity and quality”.
In addition, those aspiring to keep their councilor’s seat or to conquer one will have to make public their intention to promote the abolition of prostitution “preserving public spaces as places of coexistence, civility and equality.” For the elaboration of this section in Ferraz, the “pioneering and innovative” ordinance that the Seville City Council prepared in 2011 in this regard has been taken as a model, which has been a “model and reference” for other consistories and which provides for fines of between 750 and 3,000 euros for customers.
Even so, PSOE sources specify that it will be each local government that develops the details of these proposals that are outlined in broad strokes in a document with 80 points distributed into seven categories. The base document has been prepared for a year by a technical group of experts in different areas coordinated by the party’s Municipal Policy Secretary, Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis.
This battery of proposals also includes the promotion of the mandatory use of helmets among skateboard users “following the recommendation of prosecutors and specialists in Road Safety, as long as the regulatory framework that promotes this aspect is developed in the latest modification of the Law about Traffic”. In addition, it establishes as a safe mobility objective that by 2050 there will be no fatalities in urban accidents through strategies to reduce maximum speed.
In environmental matters, the commitment is to promote a model of “forest cities” under the 3-30-300 formula: that each person can see at least three trees from their home, that there is 30% vegetation cover on the street in the one that resides and lives 300 meters away at most to the nearest green space.
At the request of the mayor of Seville, Antonio Muñoz, mention has also been included of the study of the possible implementation of a tourist tax, although it is not collected under this name but rather as a potential “way of financing” cities through this sector. Likewise, the limitation of the “disproportionate growth of tourist apartments” will be promoted in areas where “this phenomenon causes a problem of access to housing due to the increase in rental prices.”
Other measures of the framework program are the creation of a “municipal UME” for local emergency situations, free passes or with strong discounts for young people, an ‘Erasmus’ promoted by town halls for secondary school students and outdoor gyms.
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