The Island Council of Formentera has formalized on Tuesday its accession to the program, which already has the support of municipalities of the islands

Since last year, some 266 people living in Formentera have been able to obtain their Electronic Certificate or Cl@ve identification without having to travel outside the island. The Administration Near You program, promoted by the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, celebrates its third year of implementation in the Pitiüsa Menor and does so with the formalization of the accession, this Tuesday, of the Island Council of Formentera to the network of municipalities that, in the whole of the Balearic Islands, have already been integrated into this system of collaboration between the State and local entities. To this end, the island director of the General Administration of the State in Ibiza and Formentera, Raquel Guasch, and the president of the Island Council of Formentera, Óscar Portas, signed the corresponding protocol on Tuesday.

Since March 2023, official staff of the Insular Directorate of the General State Administration (DIAGE) in the Pitiüses travel once a month to Formentera to attend in situ the requests of the Office of Foreigners and to obtain digital certificates. Annually, an average of 130 residents of this island are served. Within the Administration Near You program, the attention to citizens is carried out in municipal units, whose use is ceded by the municipalities; this is also the case of the Island Council of Formentera, which in 2023 provided a space in its municipal facilities, and today, finally, has agreed to integrate into the structure of entities collaborating with the DIAGE in the Pitiüses.

The island director of the AGE in Ibiza and Formentera, Raquel Guasch, has very positively valued this adhesion of the Island Council to a program that, according to Guasch, “has put in value the collaboration between the institutions, with the primary objective of changing the perspective that it is always the citizen who has to go to an office to carry out the administrative procedures.” “In the specific case of island territories, this cooperation becomes even more essential to always make progress in improving services to citizens,” added the island director.