Ben Amics accuses Cort of opacity and improvisation in the management of Pride 2026
The entity denounces that the agenda of events has not yet been made public nor have artist contracts been resolved and criticizes the Council's silence in the face of meeting requests
PalmaThe association for the defense of LGTBI+ rights Ben Amics denounced this Monday the lack of information about the programming of Pride 2026 in Palma, only six days before the celebration. The entity criticizes that the City Council has not yet published any agenda of events or has resolved the contract of the artists planned for the so-called tourist celebration on Saturday.
In a statement, Ben Amics has demanded explanations from the mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, about the state of the organization of the party and has regretted that, despite having requested a meeting with the Consistory, they have not received any response after several days of silence.
The association accuses Cort of acting with “opacity” and considers that the Consistory is trying to normalize a way of doing things that, as they report, has already been repeated on other occasions, such as the Sant Sebastià festivals and the difficulties in organizing the last Pride festivals.
“Not having a program less than a week before is negligence and lack of organization,” points out the entity, which also recalls that the City Council made the celebration of a festival organized by Ben Amics unviable and that, as they report, the Consistory defended that the programming would be carried out “with Ben Amics or without.”
In this sense, the association denounces that the institutional discourse contrasts with the facts and maintains that administrative difficulties and lack of response are part of a dynamic of blocking. “They wanted to present us as complainers, but their actions demonstrate improvisation and lack of transparency,” they affirm.
Ben Amics has also lashed out at the mayor for recent statements in which he assured that the entity had not requested any meeting and that the Consistory had done “everything possible” to resolve the situation. The association denies this and assures that the request was made more than a week ago without receiving a response: “He said it to discredit us and poison the debate, but the reality is that we continue without any communication.”
The conflict reaches the doors of a Pride marked by tension between the LGTBI+ associative fabric and the Consistory, in a context in which the programming has not yet been made public and criticism for the municipal management of the celebration is growing.