The Socialist group in the Council of Mallorca has requested information on the exact cost of a delegation's trip to California to commemorate the canonization of Junípero Serra. "The trips and photo opportunities of the island's president, Llorenç Galmés, throughout this entire term have cost an arm and a leg, paid for with Mallorcan taxpayers' money," criticized Catalina Cladera, spokesperson for the PSIB in the Council.

The Capitol in Washington is the seat of the United States Congress. Since 1931, the Petrero friar Junípero Serra (known as Miquel Josep Fuentes) is the only non-American figure to have a statue. He is part of a collection dedicated to the hundred Founding Fathers of the Nation. Along with politician Ronald Reagan, the Majorcan represents the state of California. He arrived in 1769, at the age of 56, after two decades evangelizing in Mexico in the service of King Charles III. He found himself in an almost unexplored territory, where he would eventually found nine missions. Some missions were the embryonic development of cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Sacramento.