The People's Party (PP) and Vox left the Manacor municipal plenary session with shouts of "Long live Spain!"

ManacorThe councilors of the Popular Party and Vox in Manacor have decided to abandon this Monday the extraordinary municipal plenary session of September, in a controversial gesture and amid cries of "Long live Spain" when the two councilors of the far-right group were leaving. In principle, the standoff had been organized by the Manacor PP as a protest against the government team's (Más-Izquierda, PSOE and AIPC) failure to comply with an agreement from the last plenary session. The spokesperson for the Popular Party, Maria Antònia Sans, to the traffic in the Plaça del Cós in Manacor, as approved during the last plenary session, felt that continuing was a waste of time, given the lack of commitment from the mayor, Miquel Oliver, in having the points approved. reopening of the Plaça del Cós, from Carrer de la Amargura and Plaça del Palau in the direction of Plaça de Ramon Llull, without forcing traffic to detour through Carrer de Artà. Manacor, Maria Antònia Sansó.

"The municipal plenary session is the highest body of democratic representation in the city, where councilors have the duty to debate, defend ideas and vote based on arguments," criticized sources from Más-Izquierdo. The debates were interrupted without listening to the interventions."

"This decision was communicated clearly from the outset, with the reason stated: the repeated disobedience of a democratically approved plenary agreement."

"It's extremely serious."

However, the PP members point out that "Oliver hampered the presentation of the facts by turning off the microphone of the PP spokesperson while she explained the reasons for leaving, an attitude that the PP describes as dictatorial, unserious, and unbecoming of a public representative." "It is extremely serious that the mayor cuts off the speech of someone who presents true and substantiated facts. His attitude only demonstrates that he is not willing to listen to the truth or respect the will of the people of Manacor," Sansó concluded.

According to the mayor of Manacor, Miquel Oliver, this attitude "not only harms the quality of democracy, but also means that, despite leaving the session, these councilors will still be paid, for attendance, from citizens' taxes, without having performed the work for which they were elected."

The decision to abandon the plenary session, as soon as it began, has drawn criticism for its tense and irresponsible gestures, attitudes that, according to experts and citizens, go against the current needs and challenges of the city. "The people of Manacor expect solutions and commitment, not empty gestures." "The plenary session is everyone's home. Abandoning it is turning your back on the people. Those who believe in democracy stay, listen, debate, and vote. Manacor needs brave and responsible representatives, not calculated departures to create media buzz."