Prohens criticizes Porquer's intrusion at Trenc: "My style is respect"

PalmaThe President of the Government, Marga Prohens, has criticized this Monday the intervention of the mayor of Campos, Francisca Porquer (PP), at the Trenc demonstration last Sunday. The mayor placed herself next to the writer Sebastià Alzamora and the spokesperson for the GOB, Tonina Siquier, while they were reading the manifesto, and gestured towards the people who were gathered. In a statement to the press, the president distanced herself from this attitude: "My style is respect." Asked if Porquer intended to provoke the demonstrators, she said: "I have been clear."

"I have been very respectful of all mobilizations, because this is a free and democratic society," said the head of the Executive when asked about the mayor's behavior. Prohens made these statements after the second vice-president, Antònia Estarellas, avoided publicly condemning Porquer's actions, although she expressed her "maximum respect" for any protest.

Against the PP's strategy

Government sources admit that Porquer's action has dynamited the PP's communication strategy. "In these years of government, confrontation and getting into a physical tussle with civil society has been avoided," these sources assure: "Not even in moments of greatest tension have we clashed with any group." Therefore, they admit that the Trenc episode "does not fit this line".

In recent weeks, the Government has made a communication effort to address protests against the modification of the Trenc regulation, which was carried out based on the Omnibus Law. Environmental organizations and left-wing parties have denounced that this reduction in regulation could lead to the deregulation of this natural park. As explained by ARA Balears, the Government has received pressure from those affected by the protection strip of Les Covetes, who already went to court when the Pact approved the expansion of the Natural Park's scope in 2023the expansion of the Natural Park's scope in 2023.

However, the Executive has denied that it has any intention of unprotected the natural area. "If the demonstration is convened under the slogan 'El Trenc is not to be touched', I join it. El Trenc is not to be touched": in these terms the president expressed herself in an interview published last Saturday in ARA Balears. In parallel, the Minister of Agriculture, Joan Simonet, published a video on social networks in which, with his feet in the water in El Trenc, he defended himself against the accusations of unprotected El Trenc.