The center-right People’s Party in Manacor today, Tuesday, denounced the prevalence of destructive graffiti in various parts of the city. In a press release, the People’s Party said it had asked Manacor City Hall to “denounce the graffiti” and “cooperate in removing it immediately in its entirety, despite it being on private property.”
PP spokesperson Maria Antonia Sanso stressed that “this graffiti does not in any way represent the feelings of the majority of Manacor residents.” Sanso maintained that tourists are and will continue to be welcome in the Mallorcan town. Sanso said the PP understands the growing social unrest linked to tourist overcrowding, but condemns the act as “totally unjustified.”
A spokesman criticised the “total lack of tourism management from the left” and said the party would take up the challenge of managing tourism through a social and political agreement, discussing, agreeing and adopting measures for the sustainability of the islands.
With just four weeks left of the peak season, the anti-tourism movement is ineffective and some in the tourism industry are finally starting to acknowledge that this season has not gone as well as predicted in the spring.
Also in Menorca, environmental group GOB organised a protest against tourist overcrowding in Cala en Turqueta on Saturday, drawing the ire of Vox coordinator for Menorca, Santiago Barber, who on his social media handles called the organisers of the protest “unseemly” and “wicked” for “obstructing free access to public spaces”.
Starting early Saturday morning, a group of 250 people worked together to block the beach’s public car park and buses that run from Ciutadella to the beach for six hours, preventing tourists from reaching the beach. A mosaic of towels and the bodies of activists was laid out in the sand, with the message “SOS Menorca” written on it. “You are the worst in Menorca,” Santiago Barber said in a reaction message on the XMinorca account.
