Mayor of Palma under fire over lack of street cleaning

The Mayor of Palma, Mateo Isern, yesterday came under fire from the opposition Socialist party on Palma Council for having rejected a proposal to launch an emergency street cleaning drive in some districts  of the municipality.
The debate over whether the municipal refuse and water company  EMAYAhas been working on a ‘go slow’ all summer has been raging for months and there are some districts of Palma which have been calling on the council to take urgent action and clean up the streets and carry out more regular refuse collections since the Spring.
The opposition Socialists on the council yesterday not only  urged the mayor to respond to the plea of the general public, but to also issue a pubic apology to those areas which have suffered from the cut backs and reductions in refuse collections.