Residents of Palma and the citizens' platform in defense of the beautiful shade trees will continue their protests to demand accountability from the Palma City Council (Cort) for the felling of 17 trees in Plaça de Llorenç Villalonga. "We will not stop," affirmed Nina, a member of the Canamunt Neighborhood Association. They also announced plans for further actions to denounce "the unnecessary mass felling, the refusal to take a less drastic approach, the lack of transparency, the absence of citizen participation, and the speed with which the felling was carried out," among other things, explained the president of the La Calatrava Neighborhood Association. The residents requested an urgent meeting with the mayor of Palma, Jaime Martinez, to initiate a dialogue and halt any similar actions to those taken in Plaça de Llorenç Villalonga. Citizens are accusing the City Council of violating the Organic Regulations for Citizen Participation by failing to provide them with reports detailing the poor condition of the trees and by rejecting the alternative proposals they submitted to the council to avoid removing the trees. The coordinators of the initiatives have not specified the nature of the activities because, they believe, "the element of surprise is very important." With these demands, the citizens intend to ask the City Council a series of questions that challenge and question its actions. "Were 17 diseased trees planted in a year and a half? Why, if the trees posed such a high risk of falling, wasn't the plaza closed to traffic during the massive festival for the town's patron saint or during the wine fair held in the Parque del Mar?" Navarro asked.

The Palma City Councillor for Infrastructure, Accessibility, and Industrial Parks, Belén Soto, has denied that there were any economic interests behind the felling of the beautiful shade trees in Llorenç Villalonga Square, as some residents claimed during their protest outside the City Hall on Tuesday against the municipal initiative. Some residents also suspect that the City Council cut down the trees to increase the visibility of the hotel located in the square or to allow the establishment to install terraces. In this regard, Soto clarified that she has not met "with anyone" and considered the residents' suspicions to be something they themselves "created." She also asserted that "from the outset, we have acted with complete transparency and have informed the Palma Verda Roundtable, a forum for dialogue where all political parties are represented, in addition to various neighborhood associations and organizations." Similarly, Soto emphasized that "removing the trees was the last resort," but justified the decision by stating that Cort had to implement it because "there was a high risk and the only viable alternative was their replacement." Meanwhile, the head of the Infrastructure and Accessibility department, Urbano Sánchez, criticized the fact that at the Palma Verda Roundtable, "no one" criticized the municipal institution's initiative except for the Amics de la Terra association. Along the same lines, he justified the City Council's failure to provide the residents with the technical reports supporting the tree removal, stating that Cort "has always been convinced that the explanations provided were sufficient." Furthermore, Soto noted that after the Roundtable meeting, Cort met with the residents again to discuss the issue. Sánchez explained that in Palma "there had already been previous incidents of branches falling from beautiful shade trees," a problem that began in 2009 in Llorenç Villalonga Square and also in other parts of the city. "After the first warning," he added, "the following incidents began in 2017, one on September 13 of this year, when a fracture occurred at the crown—the point where the trunk branches to form the canopy—and another on November 21, when the tree had to be cut down due to a storm," noting that "the weather is particularly harsh on the trees in this square." A few years later, "at the end of 2023, and after a systematic and rigorous evaluation of these trees, the felling of five specimens of beautiful shade trees was proposed." Then, they recalled, "the Balearic Tree Association filed an injunction, which the court ultimately rejected, ruling that the explanations given by the City Council and the priority of public safety justified the action, and the felling of five trees considered to pose the highest risk proceeded. There's still more to come. "One of them, in August 2024, a year later, also gave way at the branches," they added.

The association Nofumadores.org has accused the Minister of Health, Manuela García, of echoing the narrative of tobacco companies and associating with hospitality entrepreneurs by rejecting the ban on smoking on terraces.