Prohens boasts about encouraging the use of Spanish in the classroom: "It was in the PP's program."

PalmOne of the fears of Marga Prohens's government when it took office on July 10, 2023, was to avoid the linguistic confrontation that cost José Ramón Bauzá's PP its absolute majority. Two years later, the president maintains that she achieved this despite the demands of Vox, her parliamentary partner, for the implementation of language choice in the classroom—which, in practice, could lead to the segregation of students—and for the addition of Spanish as a vehicular language to the Education Law. "The choice of language, the balance between the two official languages, and vehicularity are in our electoral platform," said Prohens, who boasted about the implementation of the measures. "We have reached two years without repealing the Language Normalization Law or the Minimum Decree, without affecting the autonomy of schools and complying with the Statute of Autonomy," she argued.

The PP's electoral platform defended the "conventionality of the two official languages and their balance in education," as well as the "right of families to choose their language in primary education," although it did not specify anything about the Language Choice Pilot Plan imposed by Vox, which would involve separating students to receive classes in each language. In the first year of its implementation, only 19 schools, all of them state-funded, have signed up. However, the government's plans involved postponing these measures as long as possible, as sources within the executive branch explained to ARA Baleares, while Vox forced them to implement them from the first year of the legislature.

Prohens arrives mid-term the day after the approval of the budget, which reaffirms the PP's alliance with the far right. "You have a minority government, you must make deals, and we have been willing to make deals with whoever wanted, and with those who wanted change," he continued. "I can't do it with parties whose policies have led them to the opposition." "You can't govern behind a banner without having won the Menorca elections," he said in reference to the issue.

Containing tourism, an unfinished business

The Executive's unfinished business is tourism containment. Despite its calls for limiting the model, overcrowding on the islands remains a reality, and due to pressure from Vox, the Executive has been unable to approve measures such as an increase in the Sustainable Tourism Tax (ITS) or a tax on rental vehicles. "The left also failed to support our proposal to increase the ITS," Prohens lamented. The opposition urged him to open negotiations for a larger tax increase. In fact, both the PSIB and MÁS por Mallorca presented measures along these lines last May, and the PP voted against it, immersed in budget negotiations with Vox.

In fact, these initiatives stem from the Pact for Sustainability, a body created by the Executive to seek consensus-building formulas for limiting tourism, although numerous organizations and all left-wing parties have stopped attending the forum's meetings, dissatisfied with the debate method. Prohens recalled that the body presented 540 measures and insisted that the Government "isn't giving up": "I hope they have the support of employers and unions so they can be brought to Parliament."

A "93%" program compliance

Reviewing the first two years of his term, Prohens asserted that initiatives representing 93 percent of the electoral platform have already been implemented or implemented, "despite the difficulty of governing in a minority." In this regard, he expressed his willingness to continue governing alone until 2027.