IMAS is accused of "abandoning" the more than 200 people who will be evicted from the old Palma prison

PalmThe Socialist group in the Consell de Mallorca has accused the Mallorcan Institute of Social Affairs (IMAS) of "abandoning" the more than 200 people who will soon be evicted from the former Palma prison. According to the Socialists, the eviction was carried out in a "hasty, improvised, and deeply irresponsible" manner.

"We are facing an operation that disregards people in situations of serious vulnerability. It is a political failure and a huge social irresponsibility on the part of IMAS, which should be leading all actions and has done nothing," said Councilor Sofía Alonso. The Socialist councilor focused on the lack of residential alternatives and relocation plans for the people who will be affected by an eviction "that solves nothing and only expels poverty from one part of the city only for it to reappear in another." "It is incomprehensible that the agency responsible for social services in Mallorca has not announced, planned, or activated any specific operation to assist these people. Not an emergency response, not a contingency plan, not a real alternative. Nothing," Alonso criticized.

"Grotesque paradox"

The Socialist representative considered it a "grotesque paradox" that both the Palma City Council and the Consell de Mallorca are requesting aid from the same entities that their Vox partners—in the former, they provide external support, and in the latter, they are part of the governing team—"have insulted and discredited, calling them 'chibius'." "Social organizations don't own housing, they don't manage public policies, and they don't have the budget to guarantee basic rights, and yet they are the only ones who have always been there: before, during, and after the eviction," she asserted.