The PP and MÉS ally for airport co-management: "They condemn us to more saturation for Aena's profits"

PalmThe PP and MÉS per Mallorca have allied to vote in favor of airport co-management in Tuesday's plenary session. The two parliamentary groups have criticized Aena for its "expansionist logic" and its "colonial treatment" respectively. The spokesperson for the ecosovereignists, Lluís Apesteguia, has criticized the company and its president, Maurici Lucena, for hindering the movement of residents. "We are condemned to more massification and saturation to maximize Aena's profits," he denounced.

"Every citizen has to go through an absurd journey to catch a plane," criticized Apesteguia, in reference to the remodeling of Palma airport, after which it has become mandatory to go through a long shop to access the boarding gates. "A minor is forced to walk past the tobacco section of the Duty Free, and an alcoholic has to pass through the alcohol section," he lamented. "48 million flights are expected this year, 2.4% more than last year," he insisted, and he considered co-management (shared between Aena, the government of Spain, and the Balearic Government) an "indispensable tool to improve the lives of citizens".

The law that will be approved this Tuesday in the Parliament is a declaration of intent, which will later go to the Congress of Deputies. Més per Menorca will also give its support, so it will move forward. The deputy spokesperson for the PP said that it "cannot be" that while the Government adopts tourist containment measures, Aena "continues with its expansive logic of increasing the number of passengers year after year". "The time has come for the Balearic Islands to have a voice and management capacity of the airport," he stated.

The PSIB is debating between abstaining or voting against

Vox has not yet clarified the meaning of its vote. In the meantime, however, the deputy spokesperson for the PSIB, Marc Pons, has already guaranteed that they will distance themselves from the initiative, and they are debating between abstention and voting against it. "The text is neither legally nor economically viable," he said, because he considers that it represents the "rupture of the balances between administrations, and it will be impossible to approve it in Congress." Pons has defended, as an alternative, that a government agreement similar to the one reached by the State and the Basque government be replicated.