The president of the Balearic Government,

Francina Armengol, was inside a bar in the old town of Palma -the Hat Bar- at 2.10 in the morning on October 7

, 2020 in full force of the restrictions by the covid.

For this reason, its owner alleged to the local police, "he did not close before" the premises.

The residents of the area had called to report the noise of the establishment, a recurring problem for some time.

In his defense, the owner of the Hat Bar has put on record his disagreement with the complaint against him.

"He wants to express his disagreement with the complaint, stating that it did not close before because there was an authority inside the premises (the president of the Balearic Government)," said the owner, according to the local newspaper Ultima Hora.

At this time,

the regulations to face the restrictions of the covid-19 approved by the Government of Francina Armengol establishes the obligation to close all nightlife bars.

The Hat Bar is included in this category.

Only establishments and restaurants that provide food are allowed to open until 1 in the morning.

Last Tuesday, during the General Debate of the Community held in the Balearic Parliament,

the president defended the Government's management against the pandemic

.

It stood as a pioneer in ruling in these Islands the use of masks, the closure of nightlife or the prohibition of smoking in the streets.

During the same intervention, he

announced the reduction of social and family gatherings up to 6 people

.

He spoke of "sacrifices" that "take us away from our loved ones."

He assured that these "sacrifices" were necessary because "we had to lower the curve"

looking at "Europe, where our issuing market is."

The Hat Bar is a bar sanctioned in recent years for non-compliance with schedules in the old town of Palma, report from the Local Police.

And in that place, according to the president of the Balearic PP, Biel Company, during his speech on the second day of the General Debate of the Community, a high-level policy was seen together with an advisor from his communication team.

"Who was the well-known politician and her advisor who were in a bar that was closed by the police on Wednesday morning?"

, slipped the 'popular'.

Sebastià Sagreras, another deputy from the 'popular' bench, promoted on the networks the chascarrillo launched days before in the pages of the local newspaper 'Último Hora', which collects gossip in a satirical tone from the police world of Palma.

The

coordinator of Més

(partner of the Government of Armengol in the Balearic Islands), Antoni Noguera,

today avoided commenting

on the news that places the president of the Government, Francina Armengol, at dawn in a bar that did not comply with the schedules set by the measures against the covid.

"I am not going to evaluate it because we do not know the information and we think that it should be the Consolat that responds to this information need that was raised in the debate on the state of the community," he declared during an interview on the program 'Al Dia 'from Ib3 Ràdio collected by Europa Press.

Noguera has insisted that "who must first make the assessments is the Government."

"I do not think I have to speak before the real protagonists of the news," he reiterated.

For his part, the Cs MEP and former Balearic president

José Ramón Bauzá has criticized Francina Armengol for this fact.

"It is not double standards, it is the absence of it,

" he denounced on his personal Twitter account.

In this sense, Bauzá does not want to imagine "the hours on national television that would have been devoted to this if instead of the socialist president Armengol it had been the liberal president Bauzá who skipped the confinement of drinks."

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