Palma suspends in transparency compared to much smaller municipalities
The Balearic capital only complies with 58% of Dyntra indicators and does not publish data such as political office salaries, allowances, and official vehicles
PalmaThe Palma City Council lags behind much smaller municipalities in terms of institutional transparency. According to the latest ranking compiled by the Dyntra platform, the Balearic capital only meets 107 out of 184 indicators analyzed (58.15%) and ranks fifth in the Balearic Islands, surpassed by Santa Eulària des Riu, Sant Antoni de Portmany, Maó, and Andratx.
The evaluation examines the information available on municipal portals regarding transparency, citizen participation, public procurement, urban planning, open data, and economic information. Despite being the largest local administration in the Islands, Palma achieves worse results than municipalities with much lower administrative structures and resources.
Salaries and allowances not published
One of the main shortcomings detected by the study affects the information related to political positions and occasional staff. According to Dyntra's analysis, the City Council does not publish the payrolls of the mayor, nor of the councilors, nor those of the occasional staff or those appointed by free designation. Nor does it make public the remuneration received for attendance at plenary sessions, commissions, and allowances.
Likewise, the platform points out that the Council does not provide information on the academic qualifications of elected officials or links to their social media profiles. In this section, Palma meets 24 out of the 33 indicators evaluated.
Without data on official vehicles
The report also detects shortcomings in heritage matters. The City Council does not publish information on the number of official vehicles assigned to the City Council or detailed data on the municipal vehicle fleet. Nor does it disseminate the annual economic allocations to political groups.
Judicial rulings and labor absenteeism
The deficiencies also affect the institutional and human resources area. According to Dyntra, the City Council does not publish the judicial resolutions that affect it, nor does it have a corporate social responsibility plan, nor does it report on the so-called regulatory footprint, that is, on the process followed in the elaboration of municipal regulations.
Regarding internal organization, it also does not disseminate current labor agreements, data on union representatives on leave, nor figures on absenteeism and its evolution.
Santa Eulària leads the ranking
The classification is led by Santa Eulària des Riu, which meets 166 out of 184 indicators and reaches 90.2%. It is followed by Sant Antoni de Portmany (73.4%), Maó (71.7%), and Andratx (58.7%), which surpasses Palma by a single indicator.
Behind the capital, municipalities such as Calvià, Inca, Manacor, Llucmajor, and Eivissa appear. At the other end of the classification is Santa Maria del Camí, which only meets nine out of the 184 indicators analyzed, the equivalent of 4.9%.
Dyntra points out that the main shortcomings of the town councils are usually concentrated in areas especially sensitive for accountability, such as economic information, subsidies, public procurement, data reuse, and the updating of transparency portals.