Vox continues to tighten the screws on the PP in the Balearic Islands to extract various measures from it in exchange for its support for the 2025 budgets and the conservatives continue to bow to the demands of the far-right party despite the collapse of autonomous governability. agreements between the two groups. Among these requests, the Government of the Balearic Islands, in the hands of the popular people, accepted, at the suggestion of those of Santiago Abascal, to carry out dental tests on migrants who arrive in the islands to determine if they are minors, considering that the Current bone studies “have a margin of error of five years,” as PP sources confirmed to elDiario.es.
The confirmation of the agreement to implement this measure led the Central Government Delegation to the Balearic Islands to recall that the application of medical techniques to determine the minority of a migrant person is a procedure that depends on the instructions of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and which is reserved solely and exclusively for cases in which it is necessary to certify this aspect and there is no other documentary means. The institution thus denied the spokesperson for Vox in Parliament, Manuela Cañadas, who assured this Monday that the proposal “falls within the powers of the Regional Executive”.
The government delegation clarified that the protocol provides for minimally invasive and proportionate tests and that they must respect the integrity of the person, as provided for in the regulations on the legal protection of minors. Furthermore, they cannot under any circumstances be imposed against the will of the minor.
In this context, the representative of the Central Executive of the Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez, demanded that unaccompanied minors stop being used to ensure or justify political support for budgets. “Placing these people at the center of the political debate puts their dignity at risk, especially when it comes to people with a vulnerable social profile, who require solidarity policies and actions from public authorities,” he said. -he declared, recalling that the main objective of the institutions responsible for the guardianship of minors is to ensure the protection of this vulnerable group and to respect the powers assigned to them.
Vox calls on the PP to “stop looking away”
The Delegation thus responded to the demonstrations of Manuela Cañadas, who indicated this Monday – and this was confirmed by PP sources – that the people had expressed their agreement with this measure and, in this context, demanded that the Executive regional “stop looking away” and “use all available resources to end this lack of control”, in reference to the arrival of migrants in the Balearic Islands.
The spokesperson said that some political parties – notably the PSOE and the PP – changed the situation on immigration “when they saw that they were losing votes”. According to Cañadas, “they now have the Vox speech”, which is based on the “urgent need to put an end to illegal immigration”, predicting that the rest of the parties “will modify it when they see that the voices are moving away” .
Cañadas concluded that the popular people have understood in recent months that they do not have an absolute majority and that Vox votes are necessary. “We are already seeing a change in discourse on the issue of immigration and we are negotiating other types of measures in different areas and, of course, we are not giving up anything in terms of language and education,” he said. -he added.
It should be remembered that on October 22, and after several weeks of negotiations, the PP government advanced its proposal for a spending ceiling for 2025 thanks to the abstention of Vox, which, in exchange, obtained the commitment of the popular party not to do it. access the distribution of unaccompanied foreign minors proposed by the central government, as well as the implementation of other measures to combat “immigration and irregular occupation”.
The PP also needed the votes of the representative of Formentera, Llorenç Córdoba, and the former representative of Vox, for a spending ceiling set at 6,562 million euros that the conservatives consider “historic”. Faced with this, left-wing groups accuse the government of “distorting” its figures, which it considers “unsustainable” and aiming to “inject more resources into the real estate sector and the policy of rentism”.
Likewise, last year the conservatives already gave in to the demands of the far right when approving the 2024 budget, such as the commitment to allocate 20 million euros to dismantle the Catalan school and remove all subsidies to employers and unions. “Vox does not extort anyone, it only kneels before God,” Vox’s former parliamentary spokesperson, Idoia Ribas, then came to proclaim.
“Illegal” dental tests
After learning of the extent of dental analyses, the coordinator of Unidas Podemos in the Balearic Islands, Lucía Muñoz, assured that these tests “are illegal” and described the idea as “nauseating”. The Palma city councilor also referred to the organic law on the comprehensive protection of children and adolescents against violence, approved in June 2021 and for which she was a speaker in the Congress of Deputies.
Muñoz recalled that this includes a provision that modifies the organic law of legal protection of minors which prohibits subjecting them to medical examinations involving “complete nudity, genital or other particularly invasive examinations” to determine their age. Likewise, this includes the need for these analyzes to be subject to a principle of speed, that they require the consent of the person concerned and that they are carried out in a way that respects their dignity and does not present a risk to their health. .
