MÉS per Palma has accused the City Council of "imposing a gag" on residents after the removal of a campaign against noise that several associations had placed in some neighborhoods of the city.

Floren Aoiz (Tafalla, 1966) is a historic militant, writer, and political analyst of the left abertzale. Currently, he is the head of the political relations with the State area of EH Bildu and serves as second secretary of the Sovereignist Forum, the network that brings together the foundations and think tanks of the different sovereignist and left-wing forces in the State. This week he participated in an event on plurinationality organized by the Darder Mascaró Foundations and the association La col·lectiva in Palma.

It can be listed in any order, but the fact is that housing, saturation, and mobility are the major structural problems that the citizens of the Balearic Islands have been dragging since the beginning of the last legislature, that of the Pact. Governments, headlines, announcements, and press conferences have passed, but the difficulties have shown their resilience and public policies have not even been able to diminish them.

MÉS per Mallorca has registered a bill in the Congress of Deputies with the aim of preventing the Special Regime of the Balearic Islands (REIB) from expiring on December 31, 2028. The party claims that the current fiscal and economic framework should remain in force while the administrations negotiate a new text that updates and expands it.

The president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, has called an extraordinary plenary session next Friday to approve the law regulating vehicle flow on the island. The Popular Party plans to approve the measure without Vox, which has strongly opposed it. For now, it already has the support of MÉS per Mallorca, which has given a "welcome" to the PP for a rule that the left had proposed. The PSIB has also shown itself in favour of the initiative, although it has not guaranteed its support until the text is analysed. Once it moves forward, the text must be sent to Parliament for it to be processed and given final approval.

“We are in shock, amazing”. “It is very frustrating”. “Whatever we do in the Islands, the reality of the PSOE overwhelms us”. “It is a tsunami”. These are some of the reactions among socialist party officials from the Islands after two weeks of national headlines about alleged corruption in the PSOE. The storm at Ferraz has impacted the morale of the PSIB at a delicate moment: with Francina Armengol's leadership in doubt and Iago Negueruela in the midst of a strategy change in Parliament.

The coordinator of MÉS per Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia, and the deputy Maria Ramon announced this Saturday their candidacy for the primaries of the eco-sovereigntist party to lead the list in the 2027 regional elections. They did so with a call to strengthen the party's political project and with the intention of placing it in a position to contest political leadership in the Balearic Islands.

The Government has once again lashed out at Aena over the advertising campaign located at Palma airport, which it considers to be encouraging excessive tourism. The Executive has taken the opportunity to advocate for the airport co-management law – pending approval in Congress – as a tool to have more decision-making capacity in situations like this.

Politics has become a risky activity in Spain, a permanent race to sustain improbable majorities, a task more suited to acrobats and movie stuntmen. People who wouldn't suffer from vascular problems under any circumstances. Even in Andalusia, the PP's majority has not withstood the wear and tear. Anxiety and balancing acts: this is also the general situation in the Balearic Islands. Except in Ibiza. On the most turbulent island in the Mediterranean, as modern as it is feverish, politicians live in a beneficial oasis: it is the magic of absolute majority. There is one year left until the next local and regional elections (the last ones were on May 28, 2023) and not a leaf stirs on a tree here. Certainly, in recent weeks Aena has livened things up a bit with its delirious proposal to expand the airport. But hey! We know what we're about here; in a couple of days, no one will remember Aena and its megalomaniacal dreams – which I have no doubt will be executed to a high percentage. The season is starting, and we have to make money for the whole year.

The president of the Government, Marga Prohens, will participate this Friday at 12:00 PM in the singing of La Balanguera which will take place at La Misericòrdia in Palma, in an event that will bring together nearly 1,000 students from various educational centers in Mallorca. The event, organized by the Consell de Mallorca and the Obra Cultural Balear (OCB), is part of the commemoration of the Alcover Year and the centenary of the musical version of the poem by Joan Alcover, one of the most emblematic pieces of the literary and musical heritage of the Islands.

The traditional Flexas festival will not be held this year in Parc de la Mar. After being declared a festival of municipal interest last year, the Palma City Council has withdrawn its support for the organization of the event. The decision comes amid controversy over the LGTBIQ+ Pride celebration and represents a new blow to two of the main spaces linked to the visibility and celebration of queer culture.

A resident of the old Palma prison has accused the City Council this Thursday of breaking the promises made to the inhabitants and allowing them to continue living "surrounded by rats and garbage". "We were promised something and absolutely nothing has been done," she pointed out during an intervention at this Thursday's municipal plenary session.

The mayor of Manacor, Miquel Oliver, confirmed this Thursday his candidacy to lead MÉS per Mallorca in the Council. As reported by ARA Balears, the eco-sovereigntist is making the leap to supramunicipal politics after three terms at the head of the City Council, the last one improving electoral results in a context of general decline of the left in the Islands. In a Facebook post, Oliver explained that he will team up with Marta Català, the party's Secretary of Finance.

The plenary session of the Palma City Council has definitively approved this Thursday the modification of the General Plan to extend the prohibition of new tourist rental places. The modification had the favorable vote, although with criticism, from MÉS and the PSIB.

Aena has responded to the Government's criticism over the installation of a large advertising banner at Palma Airport which, according to the Executive and a large part of the public opinion of many residents, projects an image of Mallorca associated with tourist excesses.

The non-attached deputy Idoia Ribas has filed a formal complaint with the Spokespersons' Board against the President of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, whom she accuses of having “viof­lated her right to personal and non-delegable vote” during the vote on the Law for the acceleration of strategic projects held this Tuesday. In her statement, Ribas maintains that Le Senne decided to group 14 amendments “against her expressly stated will” and calls on the Spokespersons' Board to condemn the President of the Chamber's actions.

The culmination of the legislature with the Popular Party at the head of the Government has arrived one year before the elections with the approval of the Law for the acceleration of strategic projects by the Parliament this Tuesday. It is the last omnibus law that Marga Prohens will be able to push forward before the May 2027 elections. Precisely for this reason, the popular party, hand in hand with Vox, has taken the opportunity to modify about fifty laws, amid the opposition's complaints, even though the PSIB has also taken the opportunity to introduce amendments that have nothing to do with the reason for the initial decree-law.

The Joint Congress-Senate Commission on Insularity approved this Tuesday an initiative from the People's Party that calls on the government for a new road convention for Mallorca that will allow the unblocking of the approximately 230 million euros pending from the previous agreement and promote new road infrastructures considered priorities on the island. The motion, a non-binding initiative, had the votes in favor of the PP, Vox, the PNB and Sumar-MÉS, and the abstention of the socialists. The president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, was present at the debate.

The Mixed Commission on Insularity of the Congress and the Senate approved this Tuesday a motion in favor of airport co-management for the Balearic and Canary Islands, an initiative defended by the deputy of MÉS per Mallorca, Vicenç Vidal, which went ahead with the favorable votes of MÉS and the PNB, the abstention of the PP and the PSOE, and the rejection of Vox.

It has won the last three elections in Catalonia, but the doors of the Generalitat remain closed to the PSC. At least until the next Catalan elections. The socialists are soaring in the polls and if elections were held today in Parliament, Salvador Illa would clearly win with between 39 and 45 seats, ahead of ERC (29-34) and Junts (19-24), who have been losing ground as the legislature has progressed. The results are collected by the Barometer of the Center for Opinion Studies (CEO), which was made public today, the day after Pedro Sánchez's investiture, although the polls were conducted a few weeks ago, before the PSOE's agreements with ERC and Junts. the day after Pedro Sánchez's investiture, even though the polls were conducted a few weeks ago, before the PSOE's agreements with ERC and Junts. In the July poll, the PSC was also first, but with an estimate of 31-37 seats, practically tied with Esquerra, which obtained between 31 and 36.