Frontex confirms that no agents are deployed in the Balearic Islands due to a lack of a request from Spain.

PalmFrontex spokesperson Chris Borowski confirmed on the programme On the Day IB3 Radio reported that Spain has not requested the deployment of agents to the Balearic Islands, despite the increase in the arrival of migrants to the archipelago's shores. According to Borowski, "Frontex can only act when a Member State requests it, and so far we have not received any request from Spain."

Despite not having personnel stationed on the islands, the European agency provides air support with two surveillance aircraft operating in the southern western Mediterranean.

Borowski explained that the mafias are "probably" "testing new routes" to enter the European Union and that the recent increase in boats in the Balearic Islands is a response to this constant adaptation of human trafficking networks.

The PP and Vox demand the resignation of the Spanish government delegate for "lying" about the deployment of Frontex.

The PP and Vox have once again called on Wednesday for the resignation of the state government delegate in the Balearic Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez, whom they accuse of lying regarding the deployment of Frontex in the archipelago. In the press conference following the meeting of spokespersons in Parliament, Sebastià Sagreras and Vox MP Manuela Cañadas reacted in this way to the statements of Frontex spokesperson Chris Borowski, who in statements to IB3 asserted that Pedro Sánchez's government did not request this deployment.

Sagreras referred to Rodríguez's "ineffectiveness" and recalled that Frontex has 220 agents deployed in the Canary Islands and the south of the Peninsula and that, therefore, if they are not operating in the Balearic Islands, it is because the Spanish government, as is appropriate as a member state of the European Union, has not done so.

Cañadas, for her part, accused Alfonso Rodríguez of being "complicit in the population replacement" currently underway. "They are lying to our faces while the coasts are filled with boats and the streets with insecurity," said the far-right MP.

MÁS spokesperson for Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia, asked what the deployment of Frontex hopes to solve, which, he pointed out, will not replace the security forces or the Army. According to Apesteguia, Frontex "will not stop irregular immigration, nor will it pierce boats in the middle of the sea, nor will it plant a frigate in front of a boat and force it to return to Algeria." On the contrary, he continued, it would surely assist in rescues.

For its part, the PSIB (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) has defended the state government's policies and lamented the government's "lack of loyalty." Marc Pons, deputy spokesperson for the Socialists in the Chamber, criticized the government for "being very comfortable with confrontation" and for not seeking "spaces of loyalty" with Madrid. "It has been asking for negotiations with Algeria for two years, and now it criticizes Marlaska's meeting," he stated.