Prohens does not respond to the meeting request from GOB and Terraferida, who warn: "We will not stop"

PalmaJust one day after the July 26th demonstration, GOB and Terraferida requested a meeting with the President of the Government, Marga Prohens, and the President of the Council of Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés. Neither of the two leaders has shown any sign of life so far, nor have they expressed any intention of meeting with the activists, who are demanding that the outcry against the saturation of more than 70,000 people who took to the streets on 26J be heard. "We have not received any response and it concerns us," noted GOB representative Tonina Siquier, adding a warning: "We will not stop. We have just begun." Siquier emphasized that Prohens and Galmés are "the only two people who can take measures against overcrowding." "Prohens says she agrees with the demands and that the Pact did it badly, as if the current responsibilities did not concern her," she added.

Both entities have presented five concrete measures to "begin to reduce the pressure". "There are no excuses, the citizens have asked for it in an exemplary way", Siquier continued. The GOB activist recalled that the next protest will take place on Saturday in Sóller. "We give support and we will be there. It is a municipality that collapses more evidently due to its circumstances", he said.

Regarding the measures, GOB and Terraferida demand an end to tourist rentals and the recovery of housing for residential use at affordable prices. In this way, they consider it essential to "declare all of Mallorca a tense zone" and "deploy decisive action against illegal tourist rentals." They also ask that the urbanization of rural land be stopped and that an immediate moratorium be decreed on the construction of new swimming pools, "a key element of high purchasing power tourism," pointed out Tona Fuster, from Terraferida.

Another point is to put an end to policies of territorial deregulation. "Administrative simplification rules must be repealed," remarked the activists, who cited the omnibus law that Parliament approved before the end of the session period as an example of territorial destruction. "Under this label, environmental guarantees have been dismantled and the urbanization of the territory has been favored," they continued.

On the other hand, organizations demand that the maximum number of vehicles that can circulate in Mallorca be limited and that public transport in Mallorca be promoted. And they have put on the table the need to guarantee climate security with a comprehensive adaptation and mitigation strategy that protects citizens and the territory: strengthening the green infrastructure of the municipalities, deploying a network of climate shelters, and prioritizing the installation of solar panels in industrial and degraded areas to preserve rural agricultural and forest land.

Regarding Prohens' arguments, who assures that the Government is already applying limits, Siquier attributes them to a "makeup policy" by the institutions. "They pay more for newspaper ads than for implementing measures. We ask them to get to work, because they have approved laws contrary to what the citizens demand and marketing policy does not stop," he added.