The president, José Antonio Fernández de Alarcón, points out that this is "the largest tourist area in the Balearics". "But we are conveying a lamentable image to visitors. We have spent weeks asking for urgency in the granting of the necessary permits for parasols and sunloungers. Now we receive the unfortunate news of the loss of the Blue Flags. Playa de Palma is once again being abandoned by the authorities." Beach services should have been operational at Easter.
Fernández de Alarcón adds that "we have made million-dollar investments and we have asked politicians to do the same". "But not only do they not commit to their duty to the citizens, they are increasingly spoiling the few things that are done well. Losing two Blue Flags is a real nonsense for Playa de Palma."
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Morgan WilliamsThere's a bit of seaweed on the beach and the beach hasn't got 500 sunbeds and parasols so that's upset someone. If the PP get in they'll probably do what they did in Malaga when they had blue flags taken away. Just invent their own grading system and say that all their beaches are 'excellent', which if you've been on the beaches there, you'll know that they are average at best.
It's not clear what this is about, but I suspect it has something to do with the Costas, who apparently could use a good slapping down. Or just abolish their authority and leave it up to the autonomous regions. They wield much too much power and yet are so distantly ignorant of the local communities they wield so much power over. It doesn't serve anyone in any positive way. Having said that, I have serious doubts about whether most tourists have the foggiest clue what a blue flag means.