The first vice president and government spokesperson, Antoni Costa, announced this Friday that he is suspending negotiations with the parliamentary groups to approve the 2027 budget, which is why the budget will be extended. "We do not want anyone to use this negotiation for electoral purposes, and for that reason, we are putting any conversation about the budget on hold until after the general elections," he explained in a press conference: "It is the only way to approach the negotiation with a possibility of reaching an agreement".

The debate over pensions that has pitted parties against each other in Madrid has reached the Balearic Parliament. The chamber has approved a non-legislative text from the PSIB that rejects "Vox's proposal to reconvert the public pension system into a system with individual capitalization." The proposal went ahead with the votes of the left and thanks to the abstention of the PP.

The peaceful meeting last Friday between the first vice-president, Antoni Costa, and the parliamentary spokesperson for Vox, Manuela Cañadas, to begin negotiating the spending ceiling, turned into a head-on collision this Tuesday in Parliament. The reason? Costa reproached Cañadas for having broken the discretion he had asked of her regarding the talks during the control session in Parliament. "We demand total discretion in the negotiations," he snapped. "We did not expect this, we are beginning to think that the PP does not want to approve these budgets," sources from Vox told ARA Balears. Afterwards, the two spokespeople held a brief discussion off-microphone.

The deputy Javier Ripoll has been appointed as a Vox deputy in Parliament following the death of parliamentarian María José Verdú last week due to a long illness. The Electoral Board of the Balearic Islands communicated Ripoll's appointment five days ago, and this Tuesday he has sworn into office at the beginning of the Parliament plenary session.

The complaint from the Balearic Islands Prosecutor's Office against the second vice-president of the Council of Mallorca, Pedro Bestard, has left him even more alone in his party. Vox has asked for the presumption of innocence of its leader to be respected, but sources close to the matter explain that there is "dissatisfaction" among a part of the internal ranks regarding the management he has carried out at the Council and they also criticize that he is "working for another party", in reference to the PP.

The left has demanded political accountability for the judicial processes in which the two main Vox officials in the Islands are immersed. But not only regarding the far right, but also the PP, which keeps Gabriel Le Senne and Pedro Bestard in the presidency of the Parliament and the second vice presidency of the Council of Mallorca even though they are awaiting trial. "The highest political responsibilities held by Vox in the Balearic Islands are immersed in judicial cases for alleged crimes during the exercise of their duties," lamented the spokesperson for MÉS per Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia.

No one doubts anymore that the general elections of November 29th have become a plebiscite: Sánchez yes or Sánchez no. The parties have organized themselves into blocs, have put aside their acronyms, and have accepted contradictions to maximize results. This logic is accentuated in the Balearic Islands, because there are only eight seats at stake in Congress and six senators by direct vote (two are chosen by the Parliament). The left has managed in recent weeks to articulate a joint candidacy for the upper house. In response, the PP and Vox have agreed for the first time on lists for the Senate. But the understanding on the right has made the territorial structures of both parties uncomfortable.

The Vice President and spokesperson for the Government, Antoni Costa, expressed this Friday the Government's "categorical condemnation" of the call for protests this Friday in Palma "with the apparent purpose of causing violent disturbances" and "already called by appealing to violence." He said this in reference to the demonstration planned for this Friday and apparently linked to Blocus, the group that caused disturbances in Barcelona and the Basque Country.

The Governing Council has authorized the director general of the Health Service to contract an air medical transport service for patients with a budget of 351,945,600 euros. With these resources, the air fleet will be renewed so that patients from Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera can travel with agility to Mallorca.

The Constitutional Court (TC) maintains in a new ruling the precautionary suspension of the repeal of the Democratic Memory Law of the Balearic Islands that the PP and Vox approved last March. In an interlocutory order reported by the Ministry of the Presidency, the high court obliges the Government of Marga Prohens to keep it in force, until it resolves the substance of the matter regarding the appeal of unconstitutionality presented by the Spanish government. It considers that the challenge "is based on substantive grounds," such as "the violation of international human rights law, human dignity, and the right to moral integrity," and on the fact that maintaining its repeal may imply "the lack of protection for victims of serious human rights violations".

The Ara Més-Front Ampli candidate for Congress, Carme Gomila, formally presented her list for Congress this Tuesday. Accompanied by representatives from all the parties that make up the coalition, including the leader of Podem, Lucía Muñoz, who occupies the third place on the list, she has claimed the value of a proposal with a Balearic perspective. "We know the problems of these Islands and we do not need anyone to tell us what they are," she said, making a call to the sovereignist voter: "We present a plural, open candidacy that combines youth with experience.

A month before the general elections, the PP has joined forces with the left to pass a law in Parliament. It is the capital city law, with which the economic contribution to Palma will be doubled to 60 million euros per year. The proposed law was approved by the Palma City Council at the end of last year and has now received the support of the PP, PSIB and MÉS per Mallorca in Parliament. This has infuriated Vox, which has accused the popular party of a "lack of respect".

The agreement of the PP with Vox to maximize results in the Senate has strained this Tuesday's control session of the Government. President Marga Prohens has sought to distance herself from the far right throughout the legislature, but now, the Balearic PP will have to incorporate a representative of Vox in the second place of the list for the Senate for Mallorca. In exchange, it will not present a list in any of the Balearic Islands. Prohens has defended the agreement by underlining that the PP has not "renounced either its acronyms or its principles", while the spokesperson for the PSIB, Iago Negueruela, responded that "they are the same and will be the same".

After the looting in Barcelona and the riots in Bilbao called by the Blocus group, a protest call appeared this Tuesday in Palma. It has the same signature and, although it presents itself as "peaceful", it warns: "We will loot shops if we are attacked", as reported by Diario de Mallorca. The news has set off alarms in the Government. In the control session at the Parliament, President Marga Prohens labeled the protest as "kale borroka" and demanded that the Spanish government's Delegation have police forces ready to act.

Last-minute agreement between the PP and Vox regarding Senate candidacies in 23 provinces with the aim of maximizing results. Among them, the Balearic Islands, where Vox has already announced it will not run in Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera. By virtue of the pact, the PP will cede the number two spot on the ballot in Mallorca to Vox.

The coordinator of MÉS per Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia, expressed satisfaction this Monday at having finally included Podemos in the Ara Més-Front Ampli coalition. The leader of Podemos in the Islands, Lucía Muñoz, will go as number three on the lists, as an independent. "I love it when a plan comes together," said the eco-sovereigntist. In response to the call for a useful vote for larger parties, he sent a message to the left-wing electorate: "We are presenting a ballot with the security of obtaining representation and the capacity to influence state policy."

President Marga Prohens claimed to have fulfilled “more than 97%” of her electoral program in the general policy debate just held. But during the plenary session, the opposition also reproached her for promises made both in this and in previous extraordinary plenary sessions. These were the five most prominent reproaches to the head of the Executive.

"Spain is my church, and its flag my altar". This is the lyrics of the song National Priority that Vox released in the campaign for the Andalusian elections and this Saturday it played at full volume at the rally of Santiago Abascal in front of the Cathedral. The landscape is always the same: flags of Spain, national team jerseys with Abascal's name on the back and girls wearing bracelets with the words 'The reconquest'. But what are the Vox fans like who have come to listen to their leader in Palma?

The first shout from the Vox supporters in Palma when Santiago Abascal entered the rally was not, as is usual, "president", but rather "Pedro Sánchez, son of a bitch". For the party, Abascal is the "only candidate" in the general elections, and for this reason, he has already started visiting all the communities before the official start of the campaign. Surrounded by strong security measures in front of the Cathedral, Abascal put his programmatic axes on the table: "National priority, recover Ceuta and kick out the corrupt government". He also addressed the potential PP voters. "A small change is not enough", he assured: "If you don't want us to stop halfway, don't stop halfway on November 29th, give us great support".

Jorge Campos has not been able to preserve his position as head of the list for the Balearic Islands after the tensions he has maintained with the leadership of Vox this legislative term. Santiago Abascal's party has left him off the lists and has placed Maribel Cerezo as number one, as reported by Última Hora and confirmed by party sources to ARA Balears.