The PSIB criticizes the Government's budget extension while avoiding mentioning the State's.

PalmThe lack of a spending cap and budget was one of the main topics of discussion during Tuesday's parliamentary question time. The PSIB (Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands) criticized the government's deadlock, arguing that it will not pass the budget, despite Pedro Sánchez's administration not having approved a single budget this term and instead extending the previous one due to a lack of support from its coalition partners in Congress. The Socialist spokesperson, Iago Negueruela, called on the President of the Balearic Government, Marga Prohens, to call early elections given this situation, while the President reminded the Parliament that Sánchez has no intention of doing so in Madrid. "The legislature will be blocked from today onward," Negueruela emphasized, adding that "social dialogue is stalled, 640 million euros [from the 2025 budget] remain unspent, announcements are being made to cover up the incompetence of the Housing Minister, and there will be no more budgets." The Socialist spokesperson criticized the fact that "major reforms" will enter into "an institutional deadlock" without the budget being passed, and reproached Prohens for "no longer having the will to negotiate" and for attending a Unified Police Union congress in Toledo just when the spending cap is due to be voted on in Parliament. "She has no ambition to govern, call elections, Ms. Prohens," he concluded.

The intervention of the deputy spokesperson for the PSIB, Marc Pons, also focused on the lack of a spending cap for the Balearic Government. In his question to the Vice President of the Executive, Toni Costa, he emphasized that the PP "cannot deceive its partners [Vox] and the left." Pons reproached the Government that, despite acknowledging tourist saturation, "it does not have the courage" to implement measures such as the increase in the ITS (Tax on Sustainable Tourism) and the sanitation fee, and the implementation of a tax for rental vehicles. For his part, Costa pointed out that the Socialists also conditioned the spending cap on limiting rental prices in some municipalities and revoking tourist licenses.