The Government of Marga Prohens must enable an extraordinary loan to cover the compensation of 96 million euros to the real estate businessman Mattias Kühn, partner of the artist Norma Duval. Kühn is the owner of some land in the Majorcan municipality of Sóller, in the heart of the Serra de Tramuntana, which was protected by law in 2008. The Supreme Court has just handed down a ruling in which it indicates that this compensation must be paid for having prevented the urbanization of this area with the construction of 33 luxury chalets.
The ruling has opened a new political controversy between PP and PSOE in the Balearic Islands, which have been engaged in a bitter controversy for two weeks over the case of the masks purchased from the Koldo García plot. The two parties now accuse each other of having caused the largest compensation in the history of Mallorca derived from urban causes.
The Balearic president, Marga Prohens, points directly to the PSOE, since under the mandate of Francesc Antich a law was approved in 2008 that protected the land and prevented the construction of 33 luxury chalets in a natural area of ??the Balearic Islands. Port de Sóller. However, the socialists point to the PP and say that the compensation responds to the fact that the popular ones changed this law and reactivated building rights in 2014, with José Ramón Bauzá as president. The lands were protected again in 2017, with Francina Armengol as president.
The ruling requires them to pay, within three months, the 96 million in compensation plus interest for all these years. The Executive of Marga Prohens assures that this amount represents a loss in the finances of the community and announces that he will have to request an extraordinary loan to face the million-dollar payment that the Supreme Court has decreed.
Prohens has regretted the PSOE’s lack of diligence in managing public money. “Who is responsible for the fact that now we all have to assume this million-dollar money?” said Prohens. The Balearic vice president, Antoni Costa, has also charged against the “irresponsible and negligent” politicians, in reference to the previous Government, who They have left a hole of almost 100 million in the accounts of the Balearic Islands.
The PSOE insists that the payment of this multimillion-dollar compensation is exclusively attributable to the PP Government at the time of Bauzá and points directly to its vice president, Antonio Gómez, who is currently an advisor to the Minister of Habitatge. The socialist deputy Mercedes Garrido has demanded her dismissal because she is the culprit of “giving” businessman Matthias Kühn the possibility of building in this area of ??Port de Sóller.
The payment of this million-dollar compensation to the businessman would allow his main company to be released from the bankruptcy in which it was pending the judicial resolution. The businessman had bought these lands in 1999 to build around thirty luxury villas there, but successive changes in urban planning laws prevented him from carrying out this planned development.
