The centre right Partido Popular has registered a non-legislative proposal (PNL) in Parliament to demand that the Spanish Government recognise the Algerian migration route as a consolidated one to the islands, effectively prosecute the mafias and gangs that traffic in human beings and provide the necessary personnel and resources to the State Security Forces in the islands.
PP spokesman, Sebastià Sagreras, warned that ‘the Balearics cannot continue to be the back door for illegal immigration to Europe while Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez looks the other way and leaves the archipelago alone to face the mafias’. He said that so far in 2025, more than 4,500 irregular immigrants have arrived and ‘with each passing day, the humanitarian drama on the coasts increases, at a rate of one boat every two hours, and so does the business of those who traffic in human beings’.
Sagreras insisted on the ‘neglect of duty’ of the government delegate in the islands, Alfonso Rodríguez, who has done nothing but ‘fill the ports of the Balearics with barracks while hiding from giving explanations in Parliament and the Senate’. In his opinion, ‘his inaction encourages criminal human trafficking networks and makes the Balearics a vulnerable territory’. He therefore stressed that ‘if he is not prepared to provide real solutions, the best thing he can do for the good of everyone is to resign and go home’.
The non-legislative proposal registered by the PP urges the central government to urgently fill the 600 vacant positions in the National Police and Guardia Civil on the islands, to provide officers with sufficient resources and to recognise their work financially with measures such as equal pay and an increase in the island allowance of 18 million euros. ‘The state security forces cannot be the dam holding back this crisis without personnel or resources. Either Sánchez acts now or the chaos that has already been reported will be absolute,’ Sagreras stressed.
The PP spokesman stressed that the president of the regional government, Marga Prohens, will travel to Brussels in September to meet with the European Commissioner for Home Affairs and Migration and demand the intervention of Frontex in the Balearics. ‘If Sánchez does not ask Europe for help, President Prohens will. Because the Balearics are Europe’s southern border and we cannot continue to be excluded from European migration control operations,’ he said.