The Ombudsman will investigate the obstacles denounced by parties and officials by the Cort Government team after MÉS per Palma filed a formal complaint.

Pedro Marqués has been in charge of coordinating Vox in Menorca for six months. The party appointed him after his predecessor, Santiago Barber, resigned in protest because the executive stopped paying the headquarters. And before Barber, Xisco Cardona also suffered: the formation has been forced to change coordinators almost every year. Marqués has been tasked with rebuilding the party after it was left without Menorcan representation in the Parliament, the Insular Council, and the city councils of Ciutadella and Maó as a consequence of internal struggles.

Llorenç Galmés has claimed in his speech the centrality of the Popular Party as the majority force in Mallorca, defining it as “the party that most resembles the people here” and that represents the social majority. At a moment he has described as decisive, one year before the regional, insular, and municipal elections, he has warned against any overconfidence despite the improvement in results compared to 2023. The insular president has appealed for internal unity and party mobilization to consolidate the territorial and organic growth achieved in recent years.

Llorenç Galmés has been re-elected president of the Popular Party of Mallorca with 99.8% of the votes during the insular congress held this weekend. Galmés, who was the sole candidate, thus consolidates his leadership at the head of the party with practically unanimous support.

The implosion of Vox has reached its peak in Madrid. But in the Balearic Islands, the "series" (as Santiago Abascal defined it) has already finished its seasons. Vox in Menorca is a desert: the party has lost all institutional representation on the island. For six months, the remaining cadres have been trying to rebuild, but they lack people. "We find it hard to find people who want to identify with Vox," admits the party coordinator, Pedro Marqués: "In Menorca, being from Podem is not a problem, but saying you are from Vox still commands respect." All this while the parliamentary group, which has lost three deputies, is diluted under the national leadership of the party. Only in Ibiza has Vox been saved from the fratricidal war. But the PP is so strong in this territory that the far-right is cornered there, as it is in Galicia.

MÁS por Palma has shown its deep concern about the possibility that Palma will be left without the celebration of Pride 2026, as denounced by Ben Amics this Friday, and has demanded accountability from the mayor of Palma. The party has expressed its support for Ben Amics in light of the possibility that Pride 2026 cannot be celebrated in Palma due to the Palma City Council's lack of response to the requests processed by the entity.

It was not easy for Marga Prohens to find a substitute for Carlos Simarro in the Directorate General of Coasts and Littoral. There was little of the legislature left, and the PP had a somewhat complicated electoral commitment pending, because the main responsibilities for the coast are still state-owned: repairing the beach huts, the piers, and also other businesses within public domain. It was an electoral bet by Prohens, mainly in Formentera, and for this reason, a draft law on the littoral that seeks to avoid demolitions is very close to being approved. Maria Joanquina Ferrer has been a civil servant of the CAIB since 1996. She is a law graduate and, above all, honest: she has just reported an attempted bribery, precisely from a coastal business. At the time of this interview, the facts were not known.

"Stop making a fool of yourself and deceiving. You, ideology and zero management": this is the accusation that the Minister of the Presidency, Antònia Maria Estarellas, launched at the PSIB deputy Omar Lamin during Tuesday's Parliament session. What kind of accusation is it to tell a politician they have ideology, when it is precisely the ideology of public representatives that determines a good part of citizens' lives? At this point, it is worth remembering what Slavoj Žižek says, who considers that the most dangerous ideology is precisely the one we pretend not to have. It is not an theoretical extravagance. Jürgen Habermas also warned that technical rationality —what we would call 'management' today— can impose values while presenting itself as neutral. And Thomas Piketty has been reminding us for years that behind many technical decisions lie very specific ideological choices about inequality. From this, an uncomfortable conclusion emerges: 'management' is often not the alternative to ideology, but its best disguise.

A group of workers from the Department of Social Welfare of the Palma City Council has denounced the "serious overload" suffered by the Citizen Atención Office (OAC), after having received "political instructions not to reinforce the service" in the face of the extraordinary regularization.

"Healthcare [assistance] for people without legal residence represents 1%. We must attend to them for reasons of humanity and public health." This is how Prohens spoke in the Parliament plenary on Tuesday about what the attention to migrants means for the services of the Islands, who, despite residing in the Balearic Islands, have not yet regularized their administrative situation. The president had to respond to a question from Vox about the healthcare spending for the attention of people in an irregular situation, a pointless request, as Prohens herself made clear: "IB-Salut only has one budget and one accounting, and no items are distinguished based on where they come from." "A public representative should know this," she reproached the spokesperson for the far-right, Manuela Cañadas, who this Wednesday has accused the Government of opacity for not making non-existent data public. "Mrs. Prohens has decided that the money of all citizens is a state secret," criticized Cañadas.

The Palma City Council reiterated this Wednesday that there is a "firm proposal" for the Local Police Organization Plan, amid unrest within the force and a new protest in the streets of the city. Nevertheless, the Consistory has avoided commenting on the mobilization led by the officers.

The Palma City Council has reiterated this Wednesday that there is a "firm proposal" for the Local Police Organization Plan, amid discontent within the force and a new protest in the streets of Ciutat. Nevertheless, the City Council has avoided commenting on the mobilization led by the officers.

The Manacor cemetery hosted, this Sunday, the annual commemoration ceremony in memory of the victims of fascist repression. Organized by the Comitè de Son Coletes, it was attended by neighbors, collectives, and relatives of the repressed. The event, which had to be held in the entrance gallery due to the rain, combined verses and music with a firm message against war and the oblivion of memory.

In three years of legislature, the PP has only removed one institutional position for the results of its management: the island councilor for Tourism in Mallorca, Marcial Rodríguez. The reason? His inability to curb illegal tourist rentals and the political wear and tear this caused him. The President of the Government, Marga Prohens, entrusted the island councils with the fight against this activity, but in Mallorca the conflict has become chronic. The president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, has replaced the person responsible –now Guillem Ginard is in charge of the Ministry– and has pressured Airbnb to remove advertisements for unlicensed properties. But Galmés is heading towards the next elections with this stone still in his shoe.

The Balearic Government maintains its tug-of-war with the State over the distribution of migrant minors and already warns that it will return to the courts if the Spanish government approves a new decree to extend the current system. This was announced this Friday by the Executive's spokesperson, Antoni Costa, after the Governing Council, in a press conference marked by the firmness of his speech.

Airbnb has removed nearly 8,000 illegal tourist rental listings in Mallorca as a consequence of the agreement that the platform reached with the Consell de Mallorca a year ago. This was explained by the president of the insular institution, Llorenç Galmés, at a press conference to present a tourism management tool. According to Galmés, these listings correspond to a theoretical capacity of 40,000 places, although they could continue to operate through other channels.

Promoted by Celestí Alomar, Minister of Tourism of the first Pacte de Progrés (1999-2003), a tax on tourist stays, immediately known as the ‘ecotax’, was approved on April 10, 2001, twenty-five years ago. It levied, approximately one euro per night, the stay of tourists. With the revenue, some negative externalities of mass tourism in the Balearic Islands were to be corrected. It did not come into effect until May 2002 due to an appeal to the Constitutional Court, filed by the Aznar government. When the People's Party won the following elections in 2003, it repealed the tax, considering it a brake on tourist competitiveness. Those who defended the repeal of the tax said that it could not be classified as ecological or environmental, and that it was not even a tax, arguing: “It was nothing more than a symbol of a policy of negative messages towards what tourism represented”. And they related the application of the ecotax to the decrease in tourist arrivals and the problems the hotel sector had experienced. The Government of Jaume Matas wanted to replace it with so-called green cards or ‘sustainable’ foundations that only collected a pittance.

The Consell de Mallorca approved this Thursday in plenary session the first phase of the Mallorca Protege plan, which foresees allocating 12.6 million euros from reserves to cover part of the aid to mitigate the effects of the war in Iran and the Middle East. The measure was approved with the 20 favorable votes of PP, Vox, and El PI, while PSIB and MÉS per Mallorca, with 13 representatives, abstained.

Renting has become synonymous with impoverishment and constant insecurity. Exorbitant housing prices are increasingly out of reach for workers' economic capacity. CSIC researcher and Doctor of Sociology Javier Gil analyzes the consequences of this trend, which threatens the social model, in his latest book, Tenant Generation (Capitán Swing, 2026).