The Ses Salines City Council is looking for ways to pay for the relocation of deceased from the cemetery.

The Ses Salines City Council will seek a legal formula to cover the costs of relocating the exhumed remains from the niches between numbers 49 and 198, an area at risk of collapse. Mayor Guillem Mas told ARA Baleares that this possibility will be discussed with the City Council's technical services, "and if they say it can be done," they will cover the costs, which are currently being paid by the families of the deceased.

However, Mas recalls that they had previously been informed that "it was not possible to assume these costs." If the City Council ultimately covers them, he said it will be necessary to establish "through an ordinance or scales, whether they will be assumed at fixed prices or not." He also noted that "there are families who have already paid the costs," which range between €215 and €1,000.

The issue was debated at the last municipal plenary session, where a motion presented by Endavant was unanimously approved. The proposal urges the City Council to fully assume all expenses arising from a situation the party describes as a "structural emergency." These expenses include the transfer, temporary relocation, or cremation of the affected remains, as well as their preservation or safekeeping while work continues, which has not yet begun, as not all the bodies have been exhumed. However, the area has already been shored up.

During the plenary session, Endavant councilor Mercedes Salas denounced that "many families have been affected by this situation, some of them forced to relocate or cremate their loved ones without receiving sufficient information or help." She also criticized that "it is not fair that families have to bear the economic consequences of a situation that is not their responsibility."

The motion also calls on the City Council to "guarantee transparent, empathetic, and personalized communication with all affected families" and to develop "a preventative maintenance and structural surveillance plan for the cemetery with a schedule of actions and periodic inspections to avoid similar situations in the future."

In a statement, Endavant recalled that the cemetery "is publicly owned," although "the management, cleaning, and maintenance of the grounds are subcontracted to an external company." However, the party insists that "the duties of supervision, control, and ensuring the good condition of the facilities are the direct responsibility of the City Council."