The PSIB brings the ecotax back to Parliament: "Time is running out"

PalmaThe PSIB has kicked off the political year by rescuing two old initiatives to see if, after this summer's wave of anti-massification protests, the PP will agree to negotiate them. These are a bill to increase the Sustainable Tourism Tax (ITS, known as the ecotax) by two euros and another to declare areas of the Islands as tense residential markets, to combat the rising cost of housing.

The socialist group met in Parliament together with the party's general secretary and president of Congress, Francina Armengol, and the candidate for the next regional elections, Rosario Sánchez. "What will change in 2027 is that Iago Negueruela will be mayor and I, president," predicted Sánchez, who presented the initiatives at a press conference.

"Time is running out and people are tired of waiting: it is time to act," said Sánchez, who is currently Secretary of State for Tourism. "I would call this legislature the one of unfulfilled proposals and the PP's lies," she said, recalling that President Marga Prohens proposed an increase in the ITS that she ultimately did not implement. "The PP makes speeches about sustainability, preservation, and then they do something else," she insisted. In the same vein, she recalled former Tourism Minister Celestí Alomar, the father of the ecotax, who died this Monday. "He was a person committed to the well-being of the citizens and a visionary" of tourism policies," she said.

MÉS per Mallorca proposes a minimum Balearic salary

On behalf of MÉS per Mallorca, there has also been a meeting in Parliament where the party has pledged to make the most of the last political year. "We want to solve the problems of ordinary people," said the party's general coordinator, Lluís Apesteguia, in statements to the media collected by Europa Press. The eco-sovereigntist has proposed the implementation of an interprofessional minimum wage for the Islands with a differentiated VAT. "It cannot be that a working person who fulfills their part of the social contract does not earn enough to make ends meet," he defended. He also expressed his support for an increase in the ITS, which he considered should be doubled.