Jaime Martínez calls a rally for territorial integrity: "What happened in Ceuta must serve as a warning"

PalmaThe mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, has invited citizens to participate in a rally in Plaça de Cort next Wednesday, September 2nd (at 8:00 PM), coinciding with Ceuta Day, in solidarity with the autonomous city and to "defend the territorial integrity" of Spain. The same square that just a month ago was saturated with events and whichprevented the outdoor dinner organized by Brunzzit from being held normally, Podem has denounced. The City Council has thus joined the call from the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces to gather in front of city halls as a show of solidarity with Ceuta. Martínez pointed out that "what is happening in Ceuta concerns everyone" and that "it should serve as a warning" to the Islands, as he highlighted in a video published on Instagram.

From Podem, councilwoman Lucía Muñoz has censured the "double standard" in the use of Plaça de Cort and has accused the mayor of instrumentalizing an institutional call to serve his political discourse. "Plaça de Cort is not his, it belongs to everyone. Just a month ago it was too saturated with events for citizens to have their Brunzzit open-air dinner and now, however, there is no problem in calling a rally there that the mayor takes advantage of to engage in partisan politics," denounced Muñoz.

"What has changed in just one month? If Cort was saturated, it should be saturated regardless of who convenes. What the mayor cannot do is apply certain criteria to citizen entities and others when the act serves him to deploy his own political discourse", he pointed out.

Muñoz also criticized Martínez for taking advantage of an institutional call in solidarity with Ceuta to attack the government of Spain and link the events that occurred in the autonomous city with the arrival of migrants to the Balearic Islands.

In the video, collected by Europa Press, Martínez says that in the last 15 months, "more than 11,000 illegal immigrants have arrived by raft" to the Balearic Islands, which "leads to an unsustainable pressure on public resources and services". Along these lines, he criticized that “Pedro Sánchez's migration policies do not address the problems” of the Islands. Likewise, he urged the people of Palma and Mallorca to "demonstrate solidarity" with Ceuta, because, as he considered, the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, and his ministers "are turning their backs" on the city. The mayor demanded on the social network that the state government "dedicate all necessary resources to defend the territorial integrity and sovereignty" of Spain and "provide the necessary security to all citizens of Ceuta".

Martínez has highlighted that "Sánchez must stop looking the other way" and has criticized the "negligence" of the president and the rest of the state executive. In this regard, he has called for "a staunch defense of the rights of the people of Ceuta". "Now is the time to defend, without a doubt, Ceuta and its people, because defending Ceuta is defending our integrity," he concluded.

The Balearic PP has encouraged citizens of the Islands to participate in the demonstration in front of the Palma City Council and in those convened in front of the councils of other municipalities in a show of support for Ceuta. The general secretary of the PP in the Balearic Islands, Sandra Fernández, has invited participation because "Ceuta is part of Spain and what affects the people of Ceuta" concerns "everyone".

Fernández has argued that these demonstrations should serve "to make solidarity visible" and "to convey a message of unity and support to Ceuta" to show that the Balearic Islands "are on the side of the people of Ceuta". "From Palma and from each municipality in the Balearic Islands that joins this call, we want to convey our closeness, our affection, and our support," Fernández concluded.