The mayoress who burst into the environmental protest at Trenc: "She was at an event for sclerosis and was already wearing a bikini"

PalmThe massive human chain that formed on Sunday on Trenc beach (Mallorca) to demand the conservation of one of the most emblematic natural spaces of the Islands had an unexpected protagonist. The mayoress of the municipality of Campos, Francisca Porquer (PP), burst into the reading of the manifesto and tried to make critical statements about the protest. A behavior that has even been regretted by President Marga Prohens. "I was at an event for multiple sclerosis and I was already wearing a bikini; if not, I wouldn't have gone", she justifies in statements to ARA Balears, in which she rejects accusations of boycotting. "My intention was not to provoke, but to listen", she assures.

"I was near the protest and approached it; I have every right in the world to do so," explains the mayor of Campos, who in the past made statements against the protection of this emblematic natural area. Porquer approached it until she was standing right next to the writer Sebastià Alzamora and the GOB spokesperson, Tonina Siquier, who were reading the manifesto. "I wasn't hurting anyone," she points out. At one point, the mayor introduced herself to Alzamora and tried to shake Siquier's hand, who rejected it. Next, she tried to make statements to denounce the appearance of graffiti in support of the protest on the beach's machine gun nests, but the journalists responded that they first had to cover the demonstration.

When she was identified and shouted at by some of those gathered with shouts of "Out" and in defense of the Natural Park, she raised her arm to greet them smiling and remained next to those in charge of reading the manifesto. She regrets, however, having received "insults," especially those related to her surname: "It affects my family, and I wear it with great pride." Although the demonstration was authorized by her City Council, she regrets that the organizers did not agree to the proposal to move it to a different day so as not to overshadow the event for multiple sclerosis.

Regarding Prohens' criticisms, Porquer assures that he "respects" them, but insists that he did not "confront" the protesters at any time. Nearly 10,000 people, according to the count made by the organizing entities, attended the protest at Trenc beach to demand that its protection be maintained and that the Government refrain from making any downward modifications, as both the convening entities and the left-wing parties suspect due to a regulatory change that allows this protected space to be intervened without going through Parliament.

Although in recent days Porquer has defined herself as a defender of the protected space, following the line marked by the Balearic PP, the mayor has not always thought this way. Only four years ago, she assured in an interview with La Ser that she "would sign right now for s'Trenc to stop being a Natural Park". In an interview with ARA Balears published only a year before, she said: interview with La Ser"We bell ringers want to protect our beaches, but between little and too much the measure passes""We bell ringers want to protect our beaches, but between little and too much the measure passes".