Mallorca general strike sparks housing clash in Palma
Mallorca faces a general strike across the Balearic Islands on Wednesday: a dispute over housing has become a fight over the right to walk out. In Palma, Mallorca, on Tuesday, regional president Marga Prohens accused the Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands (PSIB) of using the strike for political gain. Party spokesman Iago Negueruela hit back, saying her conservative People’s Party (PP) and the Balearic government had imposed minimum service levels and did not respect the right to strike.
Prohens criticised the Socialists for backing a housing protest after eight years in government in Spain and the Balearic Islands. She said people could judge for themselves the interests behind the strike.
Prohens said the government respected both the decision to strike and the decision to work on Wednesday. She said minimum service levels had been agreed to keep services running. Negueruela disputed that defence: he said those requirements showed how little the government respected the strike, which he blamed on the PP’s failure over housing.
Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com