IBIZA: The PP will ask the Government for the immigrants to be able to vote in the Municipales

PP is going to present a proposal of Law in the Congress to ask the Government to alow that the immigrants can vote in Ibiza and the rest of Spain in the next municipal elections and, this way, show the parliamentary initiative one of the decisions made in the Convention of the party. The president of the Community of Madrid, Hope Aguirre, already announced last Wednesday that he will ask for to the Executive the treaty negotiation of reciprocity with the origin countries of the resident immigrants in the region so that these "acquire the civic right to exert their vote in the municipals".

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Ibiza registers "spectacular" an increase of the labor conflicts in the 2005

The Court of Arbitration and Mediation of Balears (TAMIB) transacted 5,512 files derived from labor conflicts in 2005, which represents an increase of the 11 percent in comparison with the cases that managed in 2004, informed today the president into this organism, Isabel Guitart. The claims by contract extinction 2,651 in the past year, which represents the 48 percent of the labor conflicts managed by the TAMIB, whereas 2,027 files were related to amount claims, which supposes a percentage of the 37 percent. Guitart described as "optimal" the resolution degree of the conflicts obtained by the Court of Arbitration and Mediation in 2005, that in the case of the individual controversies the 56 percent represented, although this percentage was reduced to the 28 percent in the collective conflicts. In this respect, it needed that the TAMIB in the past managed during exercise 60 files to collective conflicts, most them related to the transport, hostelería, the construction and aviation.

In the distribution by islands, Majorca registered in 2005 an increase of the 13.3 percent in the number of individual files transacted by the TAMIB, that as opposed to managed 4,501 cases the 3,970 that it had the charge of in 2004.

Ibiza and Formentera 708 cases, which also experienced "spectacular" ascent of the files the past year when transacting Menorca registered a reduction of the 19 percent of its activity in comparison to 2004. The president of the TAMIB attributed the increase of the number of files managed in 2005 in the set of them Illes to the agreement by which this organism has "totaly competen" in the resolution of all the labor conflicts that are registered in the Independent Community. She also explained that the TAMIB exerts a "important work" in the prevention of the labor conflicts, because welcomes different paritarias commissions from the collective agreements oriented to smooth the problems that arise during the use of the controversy. Plus, , this organism impels different programs from formation of the mediators in order to train in the prevention and the resolution to them of the conflict.

Guitart commented that from their creation for ten years the TAMIB has been managing about 20,000 files, which meant a "important contribution" to the "social peace" in the Independent Community. The TAMIB is a extrajudicial, independent organ and paritario destined to dissolve the individual and collective labor controversies by means of the conciliation, the mediation and the arbitration, whose work emphasizes by its "speed" and effectiveness, it stood out.

Balance of work that the TAMIB has developed from its creation is "very positive", since it has contributed to the reduction of the social confliction by means of a management in which it occurs to help the parts "quickly" and with "professionalism",he insisted. Conseller of Work and Formation, Cristóbal Huguet, present in the appearance, emphasized that the results obtained by the TAMIB "every year are more satisfactory" and stressed that the increase of the number of affiliated with the Social Security that registers Balearic increases "the possibility of conflicts".

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The population of Ibiza and Formentera has multiplied by four in 160 years

Ibiza and Formentera had 21,025 residents in 1842 to 93,629 in 2001. The greater growth coming from tourist ` boom´. The proportions are similar to the rest of Balears.

The islands of Ibiza and Formentera has quadruplicated their population in the last 160 years, according to the data done by the National Institute of Estadi'stica (INE). The growth of the number of homes has been much more spectacular, but the biggest changes has been from halves of XX century, with the tourist boom, since there has been a tendency to the loss in the number of children of the families. The fact that the population has grown more although the families have less children because the increase of the immigration produced the result of the tourist phenomenon, in which the islands happen to be lacking manual labor towards other regions or foreigners, there for has been receiving workers of services, Spanish as as much foreign. The tourism also has caused the increase of European population that has established itself in the islands as a second residence or his first in the case of older people and this phenomenon also affects the population data. The city of Ibiza and municipioo of Sant Antoni have had a uninterupted growth during the studied period . First it had 5,118 inhabitants in 1842 and 34.826 in 2001, and the second it has happened from 3,539 to 15,081 in the same dates. Santa Eulària, Sant Josep and Formentera has had some oscillation and has gotten to register censuses lower than the previous one, but in the last years have experienced a remarkable ascent. Thus, in 2001 Santa Eulària (second municipality in population) it had a census of 19,808 inhabitants; Sant Josep, of 14,267, and Formentera of 5.553. In the smaller Pitiusa, perhaps by its territorial limitations, the growth less is accelerated and exists a tendency to the comparison in number of inhabitants between the secondary municipalities of the island of Eivissa (Santa Eulària, Sant Antoni and Sant Josep). Sant Joan, atypical case the smaller growth, where in 1842 the census was of 3,655 inhabitants and in 2001, of 100 people less, that is to say, 3.555. But they had doubled the homes, since the 613 of 1842 happened to the 1,198 of 1991. The global numbers of Ibiza and Formentera have been increasing throughout all the exposed period. The number of the homes is significant to this ascending curve. The 4,062 addresses of 1842 have become 33.014 in the last.