Non-Common Market residents demand discounts ferries between Ibiza and Formentera

Hundreds of extra-communitarian resident demonstrators in Formentera protest to be able to benefit from the subventions to European residents .

Hundreds of immigrants of Formentera were concentrated yesterday in the City council to demand discounts on the marine transport. The demonstrators carried allusive placards with mottos as ` we live and we worke in Formentera but we pay like tourists´. During the protest, the immigrants met with the mayor, Candido Valladolid, who left the municipal offices when he learned that a manifestation was taking place, and listened to the claims of this group. The City council of Formentera called for a meeting with representatives of all the administrations implied in the transport between islands (central Government, Govern and Consell Insular ) to try to reach a solution.

Extra-communitarian residents have also initiated a campaign of collection of signatures of support to their vindications, they want the same treatment as the European, which have the right to the subventions which are granted by the central Government.

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