In Formentera certain supports can be expensive. Especially if they go against the interests of the former president of the PP of Formentera and spokesman for Sa Unió, José Manuel Alcaraz. Thus, according to La Voz de Ibiza, Alcaraz and Javier Serra, president of Compromís and his political partner of the PP in the coalition, went to the chief of staff of the Hospital de Formentera to pressure him to fire a health worker for her political opinions on social networks favorable to the president of the Consell, Llorenç Córdoba. A story that is vox populi on the island and that has been able to corroborate this medium by different sources. The consellers unequivocally requested that the woman be fired from her job at the health center. Her sin: having participated in the group Formentera se Respeta, since the crisis broke out in the government of Formentera. The facts would have occurred about a month ago. Fortunately for the worker, Alcaraz and Serra’s request fell on deaf ears. The head of Personnel did not heed the surreal request and defended the professionalism of the health worker. “If you don’t like it, go to private health care,” the head of personnel reportedly told the two politicians. “I value it very much, I have a lot of appreciation for it. For me, his response is an impeccable attitude,” the affected worker told La Voz de Ibiza, who asked to remain anonymous and preferred not to file a complaint. She described the facts “of abuse of power” and of an “incredible moral baseness”.“It hurt me, I’m not going to tell you that it didn’t hurt me and that I didn’t have anxiety and that I didn’t have a bad time. I didn’t make it public because of that.”
Same attitude, same character
A decade ago, Alcaraz had an almost identical attitude with another worker, in this case from the Trasmapi shipping company. Joan Torres was captain when Alcaraz showed up to speak to his superior to be demoted for collecting signatures against the Govern.
It all happened in the summer of 2013 when Torres started a signature collection through the Change.org platform to protect posidonia. “The petition was addressed to the then Minister of Environment of the Balearic Government, Gabriel Company. Hence Alcaraz’s discomfort,” Torres told La Voz de Ibiza. At that time, the only Consell not dominated by the PP was that of Formentera. “Then, what (José Ramón) Bauzá (former president of the Balearic Islands between 2011 and 2015) did was to put Alcaraz as delegate of the Balearic Government in Formentera. Then, Alcaraz, using his position, called my chief of staff and told him what I was doing, with the intention of removing me in the middle.” “When I boarded, because I was on vacation, my chief of staff called me to tell me all this. I was very surprised,” he explained. However, his boss’s response was also forceful, ignoring Alcaraz’s request: “Don’t worry, you’re still with us here as if nothing had happened,” he told him. “If I had been in another company, surely I would not have been able to hold the position, I would have been demoted to first officer,” adds to La Voz de Ibiza the man who is now retired. Torres also said he was aware of the episode suffered by the Formentera Hospital worker recently. “I contacted her and she told me that they had also gone to talk to her manager with the same intention. So it was no longer a question of it having been an isolated thing in the past.This way of acting is still going on. Torres has decided to make the episode public after seeing Alcaraz in the plenary debating an extra item for the December payroll of workers. “What really annoyed me the other day is that he had the nerve to say that he had to defend the workers. Defending the workers? Well, you tell me what defense I had at that time and this health. And, moreover, filling his mouth also with the Code of Ethics. These things cannot be normalized,” he said. “And all this has been done while occupying a public office.
In my case, as delegate of the Balearic Government in Formentera. In the case of this other person, having a position as a councilor in the Consell de Formentera. . Creo que estas actitudes hay que contarlas”, concluyó. Días atrás, el conseller de sa Unió y ex presidente del PP de Formentera increpó e intimidó a un asesor del Consell de Formentera tras el pleno.
Alcaraz denies and attacks
To questions from La Voz de Ibiza, the former president of the PP of Formentera has denied the mafia practices denounced. Through a written message, the leader of Sa Unió has stated that “you can publish the lies you want as you always do in your pamphlet. These two people only do slander every time they use my name and this will end in a lawsuit for slander against them”. Faced with this warning, the doctor invited him to do so: “If he wants to, he can file a lawsuit”. “It is impressive that he denies it,” she said. Minutes after the first message and without any question from La Voz de Ibiza, Alcaraz added that “the one in the hospital is the “president of the fan club” of Lorenzo Córdoba and the other of the fan club of Puigdemont. All the media have heard the bullshit of these two and nobody gives them any credibility because they are serious media. To contrast these defamations you should talk to those responsible for the Hospital and Trasmapi, but then you could no longer publish this garbage.” Javier Serra has not answered our messages.
