The meeting, which took place in La Magdalena Palace in Santander, was attended by all the regional presidents and the King of Spain.
Prohens has conveyed the need for a change of direction to the Spanish government in housing and migration policies.
The President of the Government of the Balearic Islands, Margalida Prohens, took part in the 27th Conference of Presidents, which took place this Friday in the La Magdalena Palace in Santander. Prohens defended the need to tackle the reform of the regional funding system in a multilateral way, ‘from the position that comes from being a net contributor to the funding system, from having a very clear singularity, recognised in the Constitution, such as insularity’, she insisted.
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President Prohens advocates a multilateral approach to the reform of the regional funding system in the Conference of Presidents
In this sense, Prohens reiterated her refusal to accept proposals that go against the fiscal autonomy of the communities, their ability to lower taxes, or to recentralise those taxes that have been ceded.
In addition, the president of the Government of the Balearic Islands explained the problems of access to housing in the Balearic Islands and asked the Spanish Government to change course in this regard, in collaboration and coordination with the autonomous communities. For this reason, Prohens has asked the president, Pedro Sánchez, to repeal the national housing law and to propose a new approach based on making land available and making state resources available to the autonomous communities.
Along the same lines as other regional presidents, the head of the Balearic executive stressed the need to provide security for homeowners and defend private property, and to combat squatting forcefully. ‘We have asked him to unblock the anti-squatting law passed in the Senate,’ she said.
About the migration crisis, he called on Sánchez to get involved and to bring about a drastic change in migration policy, with the necessary means and resources. ‘The Balearic Islands can no longer take on new distributions of migrant minors,’ he said. ‘We cannot limit ourselves to talking about distribution, which also dehumanises minors, but we must talk about the protection of our borders and collaboration and diplomacy with the countries of origin and transit of migratory flows, in our case, especially with Algeria’, he said.
During her speech, following the Conference of Presidents, Prohens also spoke of the lack of health professionals in the Balearic Islands and the importance of seeking mechanisms to ensure that there are no vacancies in the MIR (medical internships) programme, and she called for a solution to the problem generated about the mutual insurance companies for civil servants.