Oliver obtains the support of the People's Party (PP) to make Manacor the regional capital.

ManacorManacor doesn't want to give up being the effective (and financially rewarding) capital of the Levante region. Therefore, it has recruited the local People's Party, the key that could open the door to the municipality being able to finance itself with an additional €5 million per year, in exchange for satisfying the needs of Sant Llorenç, Son Servera, Capdepera, and Artà with the creation of a services association.

This is what the mayor of Manacor, Miquel Oliver, and the spokesperson for the PP in Manacor, Maria Antònia Sansó, have put it today. They have explained how the union of forces has been carried out, which will make them negotiate jointly, in the Parliament and in the Consell de Mallorca, the need for Manacor to be able to finance itself and collect," they have expressed.

It should be remembered that on July 15, the Manacor City Council already approved (with the abstention of precisely the PP and Vox) a motion to achieve the long-awaited regional capital status and the economic recognition of a "decades" of work.

Oliver explained that "both the capital status and the Mancomunidad de Levante are processes and entities that can go down parallel paths" and that one does not exclude the other. The reason is that when he has met these days with the different affected mayors, he has encountered opposition to the Manacor's administrative supremacy, and the expression of the need to pool equitable services such as manure, animal welfare, and the maintenance of public roads.

A wish that could not be realized, if both the Parliament and the Consell approved, neither this year "nor surely in 2026, although we will do everything possible to have it included" in the budget. "We believe the important thing is to generate debate and move forward with the initiative," said Oliver and Sansó, who expressed hope for a successful outcome.

Mutual benefit

"I have to thank the mayor for the transparency and dialogue shown on this occasion," Sansó emphasized, who assured that "the Popular Party shares the bottom line" of the initiative "and that is why from now on we will work both institutionally and politically to achieve this capital status"

to Oliver, who assumes that to achieve one thing he will have to satisfy the other: "Think that before there had been talk of a Mancomunidad de Levante, but it had never been achieved due to a lack of political will, because we thought that Manacor would lose. But the capital status is also about that, about helping us ask them." It would have been very simple.

At least 5 million

Asked whether the €5 million annual funding figure was a definitive figure, the mayor of Manacor replied that "it's an approximate budget," citing the island's capital status as an example, which Ibiza City already has for the same reasons Manacor is seeking. "Possibly, if we were to recalculate the budget using the current criteria, we would end up with several million more."