{"id":157571,"date":"2026-08-28T13:21:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/menores-migrantes-no-acompanados-balears-recurso-govern\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T14:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:16:06","slug":"menores-migrantes-no-acompanados-balears-recurso-govern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/en\/menores-migrantes-no-acompanados-balears-recurso-govern\/","title":{"rendered":"Balearic Government appeals 434-migrant-minor capacity at Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Balearic Government<\/strong> will appeal to the <strong>Supreme Court<\/strong> against the national system for the distribution of <strong>unaccompanied migrant minors in the Balearic Islands<\/strong>, which sets the ordinary capacity of the islands&#8217; child protection and guardianship system at <strong>434<\/strong>. On Friday, the Consell de Govern authorised the Autonomous Community&#8217;s Legal Service to lodge an appeal against Royal Decree 556\/2026, approved on 30 June.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-157552 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/closeup-shot-of-children-playing-in-the-park-with-2026-03-18-17-37-22-utc.jpeg\" alt=\"unaccompanied migrant minors in the Balearic Islands\" width=\"6016\" height=\"4016\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new figure represents an increase from the <strong>406 minors<\/strong> previously established by the Spanish Government for the Balearic Islands.<\/p>\n<h2>Balearic Government questions criteria for distributing unaccompanied migrant minors<\/h2>\n<p>The Balearic Government argues that the <strong>criteria used by the Spanish Government are not sufficiently justified<\/strong> and considers their application to produce an &#8220;<strong>opaque and arbitrary<\/strong>&#8221; outcome. It believes the system could favour certain autonomous communities over others and <strong>violate the constitutional principle of interregional solidarity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The royal decree establishes <strong>eight different criteria<\/strong>, assigning different percentages and indices to calculate the ordinary capacity of each territory. The Balearic Government argues that the legislation does not sufficiently explain why these parameters were selected or how the final figure assigned to each autonomous community was reached.<\/p>\n<p>The appeal will also challenge the Spanish Government&#8217;s authority to establish the ordinary capacity of child protection and guardianship systems through a royal decree. The Balearic Government maintains that child protection is an <strong>exclusive responsibility of the autonomous communities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In previous appeals, the Autonomous Community has also argued that the requirements for declaring an extraordinary migration contingency were not put to a vote at the plenary session of the Sectoral Conference on Childhood and Adolescence held on 5 May 2025.<\/p>\n<h2>Third Balearic Government appeal against national regulations<\/h2>\n<p>The challenge to Royal Decree 556\/2026 follows other legal action taken by the Balearic Government over national regulations governing the reception of unaccompanied migrant minors.<\/p>\n<p>The Balearic Government has already lodged appeals against <strong>Royal Decree 658\/2025<\/strong> and <strong>Royal Decree 743\/2025<\/strong>. The latter had set the ordinary capacity for the Balearic Islands at 406 minors, a figure now increased to 434.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Autonomous Community&#8217;s Legal Service issued a report on 15 July supporting the challenge to the new royal decree. Following authorisation from the Consell de Govern, the Legal Service can now lodge the appeal with the Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Balearic Government will appeal to the Supreme Court against <a href=\"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/en\/menores-migrantes-no-acompanados-balears-recurso-govern\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":157553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Govern appeals migrant minor distribution at Supreme Court - Mallorca Global Mag<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Balearic Islands will appeal to the Supreme Court against the state-set reception capacity, which rises from 406 to 434 minors.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/en\/menores-migrantes-no-acompanados-balears-recurso-govern\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govern appeals migrant minor distribution at Supreme Court - 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