The president of the Congress of Deputies, general secretary of the PSOE in the Balearic Islands and former president of the Balearic Government, Francina Armengol, spoke this Wednesday on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero on the occasion of her visit to the island to participate in a debate on the future of the tourist model.
The Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands are sister archipelagos that have used each other's advances, errors and learnings to apply them to their own evolution. The demonstrations of last April 20 in the Atlantic islands already represented a mirror effect for the Mediterranean islands, which started with new mobilizations against mass tourism and housing speculation, among other premises.
During the eight years as the highest responsible of the Govern, her Government group established a sustainable tourism tax, approved a moratorium on tourist places, both vacation and hotel, reached an agreement with the large cruise ship owners to restrict the arrival of cruise ships to the port of Palma, where there was