Firmly with Vox and without bridges with the left: this is how Prohens begins the parliamentary year

PalmWith a head-on clash with the left, further linking it to Vox. This was Speaker Marga Prohens's first action before resuming the parliamentary session, which was preceded by a round of consultations with all parties, with Más por Menorca missing. The PSIB and MÁS por Mallorca criticized the president for the fact that the repeal of the Democratic Memory Law—which she had agreed to maintain in December—is the first initiative of September, which is already marked by a pre-election climate. The far right, for its part, expressed satisfaction that the PP is making "a discourse very close to Vox" on immigration and asserted that they had shown Prohens' willingness to begin "preliminary meetings" for the budget.

Party spokesperson Manuela Cañadas has called for "the delegislation of the absurd laws that have been passed in Europe" in order to carry out her party's flagship measure, which is the mass deportation of people, which is currently illegal. Article 4 of Protocol Four of the European Convention on Human Rights prohibits the mass expulsion of foreigners. "We must consider the human rights of Spanish and European residents," she said. Be that as it may, the regional government does not have the authority to do so. "An agreement can be reached with the countries of origin to return the minors," Cañadas argued, asserting that the Immigration Law allows the autonomous communities to sign agreements with these countries if the Spanish government "ignores" immigration policies. However, this possibility does not appear in the regulations.

The PP spokesperson in the Parliament, Sebastià Sagreras, has boasted about the "successful processing of the last budgets" and the fact that the next ones are being prepared. Regarding the fact that Cañadas believes the PP shares his approach on immigration, he considered the existence of a wave of migration affecting the Islands "verifiable." He also called for a "reinforcement" of the State security forces. "Our position is not one of toughness, it is one that is conveyed from the streets," he said.

Córdoba calls for the return of jurisdiction over minors.

For his part, Llorenç Córdoba, the MP for Formentera, asserted that he maintains "the will to work together" with the Executive, but asked for assistance in managing the wave of migration, which is particularly impacting Formentera. "We are at our limit," he said, and requested funding to cover the care of these unaccompanied foreign minors and, if necessary, to establish the mechanism for redistributing minors currently being implemented in the Canary Islands (and which the PP has challenged). Córdoba proposed the full return of powers over unaccompanied minors to the regional government. "The Executive cannot refuse to do so," he said.

"The political year begins with a break with the opposition"

"The political year begins with a break with the opposition," lamented PSIB spokesperson Iago Negueruela, who lamented that the PP is willing to break the agreement reached a few months ago with the left and repeal this law. "Breaking this type of agreement is going straight to the far right," he lamented. Proof of this, in his opinion, is the reshuffle of the government, through which Prohens dismissed Minister Catalina Cirer and appointed National Police Officer Manuel Pavón as the new head of Immigration. "He was holding back Vox in Parliament, he's no longer there; there's a National Police Officer who says he doesn't care if people call him racist," he said.

After Prohens asked all groups for consensus to support the proposals emerging from the Pact for Sustainability, which had entered its second phase, Negueruela questioned their support. "We're leaving the pact, both the left-wing parties and civil society," he said. "It's been diluted." In this sense, he lamented that the "legalization of the PP in the rough goes against the very diagnosis" of the Pact for Sustainability: "It was a way of deceiving society as a whole." "If all this is reversed, we can sit down, but if they say something and do the opposite, we can't," he stressed, insisting that "the latest PP-Vox agreement renounces the European Green Agenda."

The spokesperson for MÁS por Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia, also admitted that "relations with the PP are seriously strained." "After the agreement we reached to rectify the 30 Vox measures approved in error, which involved maintaining the Memory Law, and which they have now decided to repeal, it is difficult for dialogue to resume," he explained: "Trust is one of the things that is hardest to rebuild when it is broken." However, he insisted that the party will vote "according to the interests of the citizens": "We have no other debt or commitment other than that to the citizens of the Canary Islands." However, he stressed that an explicit pact with the PP would not be possible: "You cannot make a pact with the far right and with MÁS, because we are their antithesis."