The proposal for the Islands to manage the airport is submitted to Parliament, but Congress has the final say.

PalmThe proposal by MÉS por Mallorca and Més por Menorca to transfer airport management powers to the Balearic Government has begun its parliamentary process thanks to the support of the People's Party (PP). The eco-sovereignty movement has presented the initiative as a bill with the hope that, if approved, it will be submitted to the Congress of Deputies, which would have the final say on the matter. However, the groups are not optimistic that the transfer will ultimately be accepted.

"We want to decide the management of airports from here," explained MÉS MP for Mallorca, Ferran Rosa: "Parliament has positioned itself in favor of co-management twenty times; President Francesc Antich already proposed the creation of the Airport Authority in 2007." With the press archives in hand, Rosa wanted to question the PSIB, which abstained from the proposal, and called for "maximum consensus" to "send this law to Congress." Meanwhile, Vox is "strongly against it," summarized MP Sergio Rodríguez.

For his part, Menorcan representative Josep Castells thanked the PP for its support in processing the law, despite doubting that the PP would support it in Congress. "We're doing what we can from Parliament, and we're putting this debate on the table," he explained. "If the People's Party (PP) governed in Madrid, they wouldn't present these bills; that makes us fellow travelers," she explained. However, Margalida Pocoví (PP) claimed that the co-management model "is a historical demand" of the Islands, "widely shared" by her party: "We need an airport co-management model where the Islands' institutions can actively intervene."

In this regard, she recalled that President Marga Prohens has already made similar proposals to the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, on several occasions. However, she warned that she will present "amendments" to the bill. Sources from the pro-independence parliamentary groups expressed misgivings about what these amendments would consist of and how the final text would be once negotiations with the other groups are completed.

The PSIB accuses MÁS of going too far.

The PSIB's deputy spokesperson, Marc Pons, defended his group's abstention out of "political honesty." He considered the bill to be "a maximal approach." "Our assessment of the text presented is clear; the articles do not propose airport co-management," he said. The PSIB considers the law "unfeasible from an institutional perspective, within the legislative framework, and excessively improbable" because one company manages the airports.

"We are in favor of airport co-management, but we are not here yet," he argued, and considered that the law does not fit into the legal framework. "If shared management is enormously complex, if properly planned we can make it possible, why are we now saying we don't want this, and we want five more steps?" he asked. In the same vein, he criticized the linking of infrastructure management with arrivals control, because the latter will depend on the policies of the governing group. "The right will always favor an increase in the number of planes," he declared.

Vox is furious with the PP

For Vox, Sergio Rodríguez criticized the PP for its position. He reproached the PP for voting alongside MÉS, a party that "met with Arnaldo Otegi and the rest of his friends to discuss common issues." "Do you think you can reach any kind of agreement with these people?" he asked. "Don't they realize that the integrity of the nation is much more important than a poorly managed competition?" he insisted.