Ferran Rosa, on the Pact: "Negueruela and Armengol were afraid and MÉS didn't push hard enough for degrowth"

PalmaHarsh self-criticism from the MÉS per Mallorca deputy in Parliament, Ferran Rosa, towards previous Pact governments and especially Francina Armengol's last term. In a podcast with political scientists Julián Claramunt and Pau Torres, the eco-sovereigntist stated that "MÉS per Mallorca should not have entered the Government in 2019" and that, during that term, not enough was done to curb mass tourism. "2019 and 2020 would have been the time to push for tourist decline, but Iago Negueruela [former Minister of Tourism] and Armengol were afraid, and MÉS per Mallorca did not push hard enough," he assured.

Rosa has also lashed out at the management of some leaders of her party, and specifically the former president of the Consell de Mallorca, Miquel Ensenyat: "Leading is doing things properly, not a Miquel Ensenyat, who builds a highway in Campos and goes to see them make Saint Juníper Serra a saint". "Coherence is the worst thing you can lose as a politician," insisted the eco-sovereigntist, who explained that one lesson the party draws from previous left-wing executives is that "if you cannot transform, do not offer transformation".

According to the deputy, "the PP is the one that has best read why the left lost" the 2023 regional elections. "The left should have lost in 2019, it would have been the most logical thing, but Pedro Sánchez's early election call forced the situation," he said. In his opinion, the left lost not against the PP, but against "its own expectations of changing things." Thus, he considered that, despite the fact that "very good regulations were made," the Pact's policies were "continuist" rather than "transformational." "We have gone downhill as a society," he asserted.

While specifying that the latter is not "exclusively the fault of the governments" and, furthermore, recalling the "deregulation" of José Ramón Bauzá's term, it is "evident" that the situation regarding "tourism, housing, and related issues worsened during the two legislatures of the Pact." Thus, he criticized the tensions between MÉS and Podem, while insisting that the PSOE was seeking "confrontation" between these parties, and considered that the eco-sovereignists should have pressured the PSIB more to apply policies to limit tourism. "Those who were supposed to do this job within MÉS did not do it, and they should not do it within the Government, but within the party or the parliamentary group," he said on the podcast.

During the previous legislature, Rosa was the general manager of the Balearic Energy Institute, which depended on the Ministry of Energy Transition, held by Podem. On the podcast, he also detailed the tensions he had with the purple party, which he claims wanted to "invisibilize" him because he came from another party.