In Las Palmas, where the apartment owners who are breaking up the unity of the market in the south of Gran Canaria live, Ascav has organised an event against the Coalición Canaria and PP regulations on holiday rentals, with the presence of Rafael Fernández Valverde, who is presented as a "retired" Supreme Court judge, but without mentioning that he works for the Montero Aramburu law firm, which was the one who created the main ideas behind the current legal project of the Canary Islands Government on holiday rentals. It also has the presence of holiday home owners, representatives of the College of Economists of Las Palmas and even an architect who presents himself as an "activist" from Fuerteventura.
A journalist from RTVC who was head of news for TV Canaria and presenter of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Carnival Gala will be the moderator in one of the debates to be held on Monday 25 November at the Círculo Mercantil in Las Palmas. CC has been upset that the Territorial Policy area of the Canary Islands Government has not been involved and it is hoped that the event will not be a rally against Fernando Clavijo. Javier Valentín, vice-president of Ascav, has assured that there are risks in the new Draft Law on Sustainable Management of the Tourist Use of Housing. The regulation, according to Ascav, "threatens to exclude thousands of small owners from the tourist sector and exclusively benefit large hotel chains".
In 2022, the Montero Aramburu law firm hired former Supreme Court judge Rafael Fernández Valverde, who worked in the firm's Madrid office as a counselor in the Administrative Law area. Previously, Fernández Valverde held the position of judge of the National Court (both in the Contentious-Administrative Chamber), as well as a member of the General Council of the Judiciary. In the Canary Islands, the former general director of Legal Services and lawyer of the Montero Aramburu law firm in the Canary Islands, Rosa Martínez, was one of the architects of the Canary Islands regulation on the implementation of the regulations in the Canary Islands on holiday rentals.
In 2023, the partner of Montero Aramburu in the Canary Islands highlighted the different regulations affecting tourist apartments and holiday homes, because the latter, she stressed, "are properties that were built as homes and are given a tourist use regulated by a decree." On the contrary, tourist apartments, when they are operated outside the operating unit, violate the sector regulations "under the appearance of being holiday homes, which they are not."
