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 artists' 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 has reported this Monday the lack of information about the program for Pride 2026 in Palma, just six days before its celebration. The entity criticizes that the City Council has not yet published any agenda of events or resolved the contract for the artists planned for the so-called “tourist afternoon party” 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 council, they have not received any response after several days of silence.
The association accuses Cort of acting with “opacity” and considers that the council is trying to normalize a way of doing things that, according to their complaints, has already been repeated on other occasions, such as the Sant Sebastià festivals or the difficulties in organizing the last Pride celebrations.
“Not having a program less than a week away 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 unfeasible and that, as they report, the council defended that the program would be carried out “with Ben Amics or without them”.
In this regard, the association denounces that the institutional discourse contrasts with the facts and maintains that administrative difficulties and lack of response are part of a blocking dynamic. “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 claimed that the entity had not requested any meeting and that the council 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 are still without any communication”.
The conflict comes to the doorstep of a Pride marked by tension between the LGTBI+ associative fabric and the council, in a context where the program has not yet been made public and criticism for the municipal management of the celebration is growing.
