Mallorca tourism row: minister defends bishop insult

Mallorca, Spain: Tourism minister Jaume Bauzá defends calling Bishop Sebastiá Taltavull a hypocrite in the Balearic parliament in Palma on Tuesday, 10 November. Socialist MP Llorenç Pou presses him over the remark, made after the bishop criticised “tourism greed”.

Bauzá says he will strongly oppose hypocrisy, lies, unfair accusations and double standards, whoever is behind them. The bishop can speak freely about tourism, he says, but he is free to disagree. Bauzá rejects the suggestion that his reply threatens free speech and points to the Church’s own involvement in tourism.

Pou says the minister’s post on X was no spur-of-the-moment response. He accuses Bauzá of resentment and an “allergy to disagreement”. The remark was also a warning to other government critics, Pou argues: they would be singled out and monitored.

Topics: Politics

Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com