The Ombudsman will investigate possible obstacles by the Court in the regularization process of migrant persons

PalmThe Ombudsman will investigate the obstacles denounced by parties and officials by the Cort Government team after MÉS per Palma filed a formal complaint.

The complaint, as reported by MÉS, explains that the Palma City Council would have ordered not to reinforce the Citizen Attention Office (OAC) despite the extraordinary demand being foreseen in this process. In this regard, they point out that this is a possible violation of fundamental rights and could leave many people out of the process.

Therefore, the party has called for an "immediate" rectification and an "urgent" reinforcement of the OACs to ensure that no one is excluded from regularization "due to lack of attention or political will". Furthermore, as the PSOE has also done, they have called for the resignation of the Councillor for Social Services of the Palma City Council, Lourdes Roca, for allegedly giving explicit orders not to reinforce citizen attention services to boycott the process.

"Palma has always been a welcoming city and we cannot allow our neighbours to be mistreated. We are talking about people who have lived here for years, the City Council cannot turn its back on them," said MÉS spokesperson, Neus Truyol. "The right wing is using institutions to discriminate and this has a name: institutional racism. We will not allow it," she said.

MÉS per Marratxí has also pointed to the mayor for "putting spokes in the wheels"

Along the same lines, the spokesperson for MÉS per Marratxí, Aina Amengual, has expressed herself, who has lashed out at the PP and the mayor of the municipality, Jaume Llompart, whom she accuses of being “more concerned with opposing Pedro Sánchez's government than with defending measures that benefit the economy and social cohesion”.

Amengual also rejected the PP's warnings about a supposed saturation of citizen services and assured that “a false narrative of collapse is being attempted to be constructed”. According to the spokesperson, this Saturday the party visited the Citizen Service Office (OAC) in Pont d’Inca at different times of the day and “there were no queues or any saturation situation”. “This shows that the PP, both in Marratxí and in other municipalities, is not faithful to reality and is fueling a narrative far removed from the facts”, she added.

MÉS per Marratxí also criticizes that the PP has legally challenged the regularization process while, at the same time, “attempts to generate a sense of chaos that does not exist”. The party calls it “a political strategy to weaken the state government” and not to provide solutions. In parallel, the party has focused on the situation of citizen services in Palma, where it denounces that planned reinforcements have been halted at a time of maximum demand. “Instead of reinforcing the service, resources have been withdrawn. This hinders the work of professionals and ends up harming citizens”, states Amengual.

In this regard, it recalls that even voices linked to the conservative sphere, such as the UIB Economics professor and former PP councilor Pep Ignasi Aguiló, have publicly defended the positive effects of the measure. The spokesperson for MÉS per Marratxí, Aina Amengual, has lashed out at the Popular Party and at the mayor of the municipality, Jaume Llompart, whom she accuses of being “more concerned with opposing Pedro Sánchez's Government than with defending measures that benefit the economy and social cohesion”.

Cort will mobilize more police officers in response to the collapse

It should be recalled that the Palma City Council has reported that as of this Tuesday, the number of Local Police officers will be increased in the queues that form at the Citizen Attention Offices due to the large influx of people. They have also urged the Spanish government delegation to mobilize National Police officers in the same direction. However, what the Martínez government does not plan to reinforce is the attention service, given the flood of migrant people who come to the offices since the regularization process began.