More 'Moors' than tourists
Having passed the halfway point of the legislative term, those in power seem more focused on securing their victory than on addressing citizens' problems. To be charitable, we won't speculate on percentages. Marga Prohens's People's Party (PP) has concluded that overcrowding will never be their kryptonite, their A-list solution, and has abandoned any significant measures to combat the saturation.
The protests came early, the noise hasn't subsided, and the tourist season will begin as usual. In the end, the Consell de Mallorca (Mallorca Council) also doesn't seem to be limiting car access and will continue monitoring illegal tourist rentals with ridiculously limited resources. Without any major consequences. Except for the negative ones for those who end up living on the streets while speculators enrich themselves illegally.
Cort, at the time, dodged the issue of overcrowding with a deflection: it referred to the Government's studies and will not answer any controversial questions, adhering to its ironclad communication policy—effective because it forces journalists to give up—of systematically ignoring information requests. A regime is not just about diet.
The institutions responded with the unified argument that they needed data to make political decisions. Data and a political and civil society council that dissolved when it became clear they were part of a charade orchestrated by the PP to buy time. Neither the data will be of any use, nor will we diversify or change the production system.
Meanwhile, the PP has decided that it is much more profitable to stir up the hornet's nest of immigration, which they do consider a real problem. They avoid the Trumpian, racist, and xenophobic rhetoric of their partners, but adapt it so their own supporters don't drift towards the far right. The People's Party (PP) should address the issue more seriously, without resorting to disinformation and without dismissing the mass regularization that Aznar also approved. They've embraced Islamophobia while celebrating the Chinese New Year like it's San Sebastián. There, it doesn't matter that there's no cultural integration, that they don't speak the language, that they live in ghettos, or that they open businesses that used to belong to local people. They're right not to care because everything depends on how you want to interpret reality. It certainly won't be Moroccans, or rather, 'Moors,' who arrive by the millions in August. At the airport. Not in boats.
