Fulgencio Coll, "available" to head the Vox list in Palma: "We're aiming for eight councilors"

PalmThe Vox spokesperson in the Palma City Council, Fulgencio Coll, stated this Monday that he is available to run again as the party's candidate in next year's municipal elections. "It's a possibility, and I'm available," he affirmed in response to media questions about whether he would be a candidate. after the results in the regional elections of Aragon and Extremaduraa. "We're going after those eight councilors at all costs," Coll said. Currently, Vox has 6 councilors; the PSOE, 8; and the PP, 13. Coll, at the same time, avoided taking a position on a possible future scenario in which the PP would cede the Palma mayoralty to Vox in exchange for retaining the presidency of the regional government. "I'm no magician, but it could also be the other way around," he warned. What he did categorically reject was the possibility, as has occurred in some municipalities and as the PSOE and MÉS per Mallorca did in the previous legislature, of alternating the mayoralty. "We're not here to share. We either govern or we don't," he stated emphatically.

The spokesperson has assured that, although he disagrees with the government team's handling of certain issues, such as the housing problem, he will not break the pact reached after the 2023 elections. "My intention is not to break the pact, firstly, because I have to ask permission to do so," but that's not my intention. Coll thus insisted that Vox does not govern in Palma, but rather supports the government team, and that on issues where they disagree, "each goes their own way."

Housing

On the other hand, Vox defended the initiatives it will bring to the Palma City Council plenary session regarding housing and the regularization of migrants. Regarding the former, it described the policies of the national government and previous administrations in the Balearic Islands Government and the Palma City Council as a "resounding failure." According to Coll, "this problem is difficult to solve without legal certainty." The Vox spokesperson recalled that the illegal squatting movement alone causes hundreds of thousands of homes in Spain, thousands in Palma, to be taken off the market, in addition to the damage caused by the owners. For Vox, however, although left-wing governments failed to act in the face of this emergency, the current government "has taken two years to react."

Regarding the regularization of migrants, Councilor Luis Acosta explained that the initiative will call for the full council to take a stand against this process and for an audit of citizenship grants issued in recent years. The proposal also calls for the repatriation of all migrants who enter Spain illegally and the repatriation of unaccompanied foreign minors.