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

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

"Any citizen has to go through an absurd journey to catch a plane," criticized Apesteguia, referring to the renovation of Palma Airport, where it is mandatory to cross a long shop to access the boarding gates. "A minor is forced to pass in front of the Duty Free cigarette section, 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 considered co-management (shared between Aena, the Spanish government, and the Balearic Government) an "indispensable instrument to improve citizens' lives".

The law that will be approved this Tuesday in Parliament is a declaration of intent, which will then go to the Congress of Deputies. Més per Menorca will also support it, so it will go ahead. The deputy spokesperson for the PP said that it "cannot be" that while the Government adopts tourism containment measures, Aena "continues with its expansionist 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 for the airport," she stated.

The PSIB is debating between abstaining and voting against

Vox has not yet clarified the sense of its vote. But 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. "The text is not legally or economically viable," he said, because he considers that it represents the "rupture of balances between administrations, and it will be impossible to approve it in Congress." Pons has defended, as an alternative, that an intergovernmental agreement similar to the one reached by the State and the Basque government be replicated.