Vox continues to tighten the screws on the PP in the Balearic Islands to extract different measures in exchange for providing its support for the 2025 Budgets. And the conservatives continue to bow to the demands of the far-right formation despite the breakdown of the autonomous governability agreements between both formations. Among such demands, the Balearic Government, in the hands of the popular people, has agreed, at the proposal of those from Santiago Abascal, to carry out dental tests on migrants who arrive to 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 have confirmed to elDiario.es.
The confirmation of the agreement to implement this measure has led the Central Government Delegation in the Balearic Islands to remember 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 that is reserved solely and exclusively for those cases in which it is necessary to certify this aspect and there is no other documentary means. The institution has thus denied Vox’s spokesperson in Parliament, Manuela Cañadas, who this Monday assured that the proposal “falls within the powers of the regional Executive.”
The Government delegation has specified that the protocol contemplates minimally invasive and proportionate tests and that they must respect the integrity of the person, as established by the regulations on the legal protection of minors. Furthermore, in no case may they be imposed against the will of the minor.
In this context, the representative of the central Executive in the islands, Alfonso Rodríguez, has 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, even more so when it comes to people with a vulnerable social profile, who require solidarity policies and actions on the part of public powers,” he stated, recalling that the The main objective of the institutions responsible for the guardianship of minors is to ensure the protection of this vulnerable group and comply with the powers assigned to them.
Vox calls on the PP to “stop looking the other way”
The Delegation has thus responded to the demonstrations of Manuela Cañadas, who indicated this Monday – and this has been confirmed by PP sources – that the popular people had expressed their agreement with this measure and, in this context, has demanded that the regional Executive “stop looking the other way” and “use all available resources to stop this lack of control”, in reference to the arrival of migrants to the Balearic Islands.
The spokesperson has stated that some political parties – referring mainly to the PSOE and the PP – have changed the story on immigration “when they have seen that they are losing votes.” According to Cañadas, “now they have Vox’s speech,” which is based on the “urgent need to end illegal immigration,” predicting that the rest of the parties “will change it when they see that the votes are slipping away.”
Cañadas has 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 already see the 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 regarding language and education,” he added.
It is worth remembering that on October 22, and after several weeks of negotiations, the PP Government moved forward with its 2025 spending ceiling proposal thanks to the abstention of Vox, which, in exchange, achieved the commitment of the popular party that They will not access the distribution of unaccompanied foreign minors proposed by the central government, as well as the implementation of other measures to fight against “immigration and irregular occupation.”
The PP also needed the votes of the Formentera representative Llorenç Córdoba and the former Vox representative a spending limit set at 6,562 million euros that the conservatives consider “historic.” Faced with this, left-wing groups accuse the Government of “dressing up” its numbers, which it considers “unsustainable” and aimed at “injecting more resources into the real estate sector and the policy of rentism.”
Similarly, last year, the conservatives already bowed to the demands of the extreme right when approving the 2024 Budget, such as the commitment to allocate 20 million euros to dismantle the school in Catalan and eliminate all subsidies to employers and unions. “Vox does not extort anyone, it only kneels before God,” the former parliamentary spokesperson for Vox, Idoia Ribas, came to proclaim at the time.
Dental tests, “illegal”
After learning about the extent of the dental analyses, the coordinator of Unidas Podemos in the Balearic Islands, Lucía Muñoz, has assured that these tests “are illegal” and has called the idea “nauseous.” The councilor of the Palma City Council has also referred to the Organic Law on 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 that prohibits subjecting them to medical tests that involve “full nudity, genital examinations or other especially invasive ones” to determine their age. Likewise, it includes the need for these analyzes to be subject to a principle of speed, to have the consent of the affected person and to be carried out in a way that respects their dignity and does not pose a risk to their health.
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