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The King and I
Credit: Palma City Council
THE Mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez Llabrés, was received in an audience with King Felipe VI in Palma on Thursday, July 27, as part of the tradi tional reception of the monarch to the au thorities of the Balearic Islands at the Almudaina Palace . During the meeting, which was held in a cordial atmosphere, the mayor explained to King Felipe VI the main features of the government pro gramme of the new council for the next four years, "verte brates in culture, sport and natural en vironment". Martínez Llabrés was able to briefly ex plain to the monarch some specific projects, such as GESA, linked to contemporary art, and measures fore seen in the govern ment's housing pro gramme. During the meeting, they also agreed on "Palma's need to have a prome nade in good condi tion".
Llabrés with King Felipe VI
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MALLORCA • EUROWEEKLYNEWS.COM
Scene from a previous protest
THERE are just two munici palities in Mallorca which allow bullfighting and these are Inca and Palma. In edition 1986 of Euro Weekly News, we published an article in which it was suggested that there was to be a bullfight in Inca on Sun day July 30, however this event never took place, thanks in part, it is believed, due to complaints from ani mal rights supporters. There is however a bull fight expected to take place in Palma on Thursday Au gust 10 and thanks to this prior warning, local protest
group Mallorca Against Bull fighting (MAB) was able to alert national group Ani maNaturalis to what is due to happen. This gave them time to make a formal request to al low a protest and, this hav ing been approved by local government will take place at 11am on Sunday August 6 outside of Cort (Balearic Parliament building) in Pal ma. An application is also being considered which would allow a further protest to take place on Au gust 10 outside the Palma Bullring. The idea is to try to
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In hot water
Credit: Natasha Retzmann MAB
Issue No. 1987
persuade those thinking of attending to actually turn away but if this protest does take place, organisers expect supporters of the fights including members of the Vox political party to hold a counter demonstra tion as they have in the past. The Facebook group Mallorca Against Bullfight ing now has some 1,500 members and has made it clear that an estimated 80 per cent of Spaniards who have a view want to see bullfighting banned and members are in the main Spanish.
THE average temperature of the Balearic Sea on Mon day, July 31, was 27.86 centigrade, according to statistics from the SOCIB coastal observation agency, little over 0.5 degrees higher than the average for the entire Mediterranean sea, which was 27.22 centigrade. The average temperature in the western side of the Mediterranean was 26.52 centigrade. The temperatures were compared against those taken between 1982 to 2015, in order to make historical com parisons. The temperature on Monday was 2.54 degrees higher than normal. Overall, the Mediterranean was 2.01 degrees warmer than average, and the western Mediterranean was 2.09 degrees warmer.