The Government has requested an “urgent” meeting with the new Minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Sara Aagesen, to discuss investments in infrastructure and water cycle in the Balearic Islands, in addition to the “active” participation of the Government of Spain.
This has been communicated by the Councilor of the Sea and Water Cycle, Juan Manuel Lafuente, on Monday at a press conference, where he expressed the “concern” of the regional executive for the exclusion of the Balearic Islands from the investments in water cycle in different autonomous communities, approved last December 17, in the Council of Ministers, and the subsequent publication in the press of a news item in which it is said, according to the councilor, that “Madrid plans investments in Mallorca for almost 200 million in purification”. “This news would seem very good to us if we had this investment signed but, for the moment, there is nothing signed,” Lafuente lamented, which is why he has formally requested an “urgent” meeting with Minister Sara Aagesen so that “if this is serious, if it is a sincere statement, it is signed as soon as possible”, since what worries the Government is that this “is a diversionary operation”. Precisely, in this sense, the conseller has asked for “seriousness” to the State. “That we have been left out of investments in infrastructure and water cycle in various communities, approved in the Council of Ministers is serious, but that they want to make a fool of us would be very serious,” he said, warning that this Govern “is not willing to be made a fool of by the Ministry, nor the new minister, nor anyone else”. Therefore, Lafuente hopes that “in 2025, the Balearic Islands will have signed by the State the financing for the second phase of the treatment plant of Palma, the outfall of Palma and the treatment plant of Santa Margalida and Muro”. “If so, the position of this Govern will be of gratitude and collaboration with the State, but if they try to deceive us,” he added, “we will denounce it publicly.”
