It has been more than two years since the Government promised "bold" measures against saturation, but the application of President Marga Prohens' commitments has been uneven. The Executive has deployed measures to regulate tourist rentals, but the fiscal initiatives for containment announced this legislature – such as the Sustainable Tourism Tax, the water levy, and for rental cars – have not materialized. The containment advocated by the Executive is not reflected, at the moment, in the arrival figures: in 2025, a new record was broken with more than 19 million tourists in the Balearic Islands. "We understand the discomfort," said the first vice-president, Antoni Costa, about Sunday's demonstration against saturation: "We can be told that the measures are insufficient (...), but we have taken them." Which of the Executive's promises have been applied, which have been half-done, and which have not been fulfilled?

Mass tourism has been one of the issues that President Marga Prohens discussed this Friday with King Felipe VI, who received the authorities of the Balearic Islands at the Royal Palace of Almudaina in Palma. "We mentioned that I understand the unease of a part of the population with the tourist growth that in the last eight years was absolutely out of control: 115,000 places in eight years," said the president, who attributes the responsibility for tourist saturation to the governments of Francina Armengol.

One of the latest announcements by the Government to curb overcrowding took place at the International Tourism Fair (Fitur) last January. President Marga Prohens assured that this summer an application would be launched to monitor beach occupancy. The operation consisted of placing sensors in a hundred locations. It is now the end of July and this project has not yet started. Government sources explain that the application is in beta format and undergoing internal testing, and they assure that it will be ready before the season ends.

On the eve of the demonstration against over-tourism next Sunday, the first vice president and government spokesperson, Antoni Costa, said he understands the public's "discontent" while defending the Executive's "containment" measures for tourism. "We can be told they are insufficient, that more could be done," he said: "But we have taken measures." Nevertheless, Costa insisted on rejecting any formula that implies tourist decline. "Those who advocate for decline must tell the whole truth: it would have consequences for employment, there would be people who would have to pack their bags," he explained.

The Director General of Economy and Statistics, Catalina Barceló, considers that productivity is one of the main problems of the Balearic economy. She provides some data in conversation with ARA Balears, in which she warns that despite economic indicators indicating growth, the Islands have lost competitive strength in recent years.

Representatives of Mallorca's primary sector have erupted against the island council this Monday. They have already held several meetings with representatives of the institution, but, as they lament, without results: hoteliers continue to fail to comply with the regulations that oblige them to purchase a percentage of local produce. A few minutes before meeting with the vice-president of the institution, Llorenç Galmés, the coordinator of Unió de Pagesos, Joan Gaià, and Toni Feliu, from Sa Casa Pagesa, have lashed out at the PP and Vox government. "The consumption of local produce, from January to here, has fallen by 30%", said Gaià: "If hoteliers lost 30% of their turnover, people would even come to work in the afternoons". Since it is the farmers who have lost it, he continued, "no one is doing anything".

The increase in labor absenteeism across the State has shaken the news in recent weeks. Especially, since the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, said it is "a cancer we cannot afford" and, later, that the criticism for these words were "the same to him". But the labor market in the Balearic Islands, on this issue, is going its own way: the Archipelago currently has the lowest absenteeism rate in Spain, 5.9% above the number of employed in the first quarter of 2026. If only temporary disability leave is counted, the percentage is even lower: 4.3%. Why this happens is an unknown for the Government.

The second vice-president of the Government, Antònia Estarellas, avoided commenting this Friday on the arrest of two activists from Santa Maria for having spray-painted a real estate agency. The Civil Guard handcuffed them in front of the cameras and accuses them of belonging to a criminal group. When asked if she considered the police action proportionate, Estarellas said she did not know "the details" and, in any case, the responsibility lies with the delegation of the Spanish government in the Balearic Islands. "It is up to the Spanish government to give its opinion," she said.

The pilot plan for the transfer of waste from Ibiza has begun with the left, the GOB and the residents of ground zero against it. For more than ten years, administrations have known that the Ca na Putxa landfill was at the end of its useful life, but no alternative infrastructures have been built and finally the decision has been made for Mallorca to take on this waste. The residents of Son Sardina and La Garriga have protested, because they consider that they will suffer the direct consequences. Therefore, they are joining the anti-massification demonstration on September 26. "Mallorca is at its limit, we are exceeding the red lines" assures Joan Mateos, representative of the La Garriga residents' association.

The ship that was to transport the waste from Ibiza to Mallorca finally arrived at the port of Palma in the early hours of last Wednesday, after incidents that had delayed its departure.

The economist Miquel Puig is one of the authors of the Fenix Report, critical of Catalonia's productive structure, and especially of the tourism model that creates low-wage jobs. This Tuesday he presented it, accompanied by the Menorcan economist Guillem López Casasnovas, in Palma.

MÉS per Mallorca has organized a morning of meetings in Parliament to warm up for the upcoming elections. In this scenario, the general coordinator of MÉS per Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia, has argued that, faced with society's problems, "solutions that had never been on the table" will be necessary. And he has assured that "whoever wants to accompany" the party in this project "will be welcome." Thus, he has not ruled out a possible post-election alliance with Coalició per Mallorca, the party heir to El Pi, which has presented the journalist Pere Sánchez as a candidate. "For now, they do not have parliamentary representation, we will have to see after the elections", he said.

Mallorca will begin to receive next Thursday seven daily trucks of waste from Ibiza, five days a week, with a total of 3,000 tons of garbage each month. The pilot test for the transfer of waste from the Pitiusa island, which the island councils approved last Tuesday, will cost 24.6 million euros, as stated in the documentation of the file that ARABalears advanced. The agreement has been drawn up over a year, hidden from the opposition –it was not delivered until the Transparency Council requested it–, and it includes a reduction in the environmental criteria initially foreseen.

The Secretary of State for Tourism, Rosario Sánchez (Palma, 1976), will replace Francina Armengol as the PSIB's lead candidate in the 2027 regional elections. She doesn't look at polls: "The only one that counts is the one on election day." She speaks to ARABalears at the party headquarters in Palma.

The vice-president of the Consell de Mallorca Pedro Bestard (Vox) used three cars for his exclusive use throughout his term, lied about their signage, and refueled on days when he had no agenda, according to technicians' reports. according to technicians' reports. But the president of the Consell, Llorenç Galmés, will keep him in office. "I do not share Mr. Bestard's conduct, but a report prepared by the general secretary and the general auditor concludes that there has been no irregularity," he assured in an extraordinary plenary session this Thursday.

Although the Consell d'Eivissa has renounced sending bulk waste to Mallorca after protests from residents and the GOB, this has not been made official in the agreement. With seven days to go before the transfer begins, the definitive document signed by the Pitiusa institution and the Consell de Mallorca has not been modified, but rather maintains and formalizes the option of transporting part of the waste in bulk. This possibility was introduced after the institution presided over by Llorenç Galmés agreed to lower the environmental requirements for the transfer, due to Ibiza's technical difficulties. Sources from the Consell d'Eivissa justify that, since it is a pilot test, the fine print of the contract can be modified according to the needs of each moment.

The Minister of Labour, Catalina Cabrer, has distanced herself from the words of the leader of theopposition and national president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, that this Tuesday said that absenteeism is a "cancer" and proposed that workers on sick leave earn less. In a press conference, the minister considered that, although it is a state issue, "a worker who has contributed, works and is ill must have the entire system that accompanies them in their recovery period".

The transfer of waste from Ibiza to Mallorca begins next July 16. As reported by the second vice-president and Minister of Environment of the Consell de Mallorca, Pedro Bestard, the first shipment will consist of seven trucks with 24 tons of waste each. In this way, a total of approximately 3,000 tons will be transferred each month.

The the mayor of Campos, Francisca Porquer (PP), has caused the week's controversy after bursting in on the reading of the manifesto Sunday environmentalist at Es Trenc (Mallorca). Behavior that even President Marga Prohens criticized him. But it is not the first time that Porquer has been at the center of the storm. These are some of the media moments that the mayor has starred in.

The Balearic PP is indifferent to the suspension of the repeal of the Law of Democratic Memory by the Constitutional Court (TC). Sources from the parliamentary group have recalled that the PP voted in favor of the repeal to please Vox in exchange for its support for the 2025 budgets. "We always stated the same, that for us the repeal was not a priority and that it was also covered by state law," assures the party: "The PP fulfilled its agreements, and from here on out, no problem that the repeal has been suspended until the TC definitively rules on it".