The general secretary of the Palma Socialist Group, Iago Negueruela, has been proclaimed the PSOE candidate for the mayoralty of Palma for the municipal elections of 2027. He has gone from being the right-hand man of the Government of Francina Armengol and head of the Parliamentary Group to leading the party – since March 2025 – in the capital of the Balearic Islands. He assures that he is taking the step towards municipal politics because he considers that "Palma is not well" and defends that a change of course is needed after three years of PP government with Vox.

BiciPalma has opened four stations at La Teulera, Son Dureta, Son Armadans, and Avinguda de Picasso and plans to launch eleven more in the coming weeks. The action is part of the third phase of service expansion, funded with 750,000 euros and which also includes the incorporation of 150 new bicycles, all electric.

MÉS per Palma has proposed this Monday to limit the price of commercial rents in the city's stressed areas to protect local businesses and curb the replacement of traditional businesses by franchises and establishments exclusively oriented towards tourism. The proposal has been presented at the former Donya Àngela haberdashery, one of Palma's historic businesses, which the party has symbolically turned into a real estate agency to denounce how speculation is transforming the city and expelling both residents and traditional businesses. According to MÉS, the problem is not a lack of customers, but the continuous increase in commercial rents. "Many businesses don't close because the business isn't working. They close because, when the contract ends, the new rent is simply unaffordable," explained MÉS per Palma candidate David Pujol.The group warns that this process is causing an homogenization of Palma's commercial landscape. Neighborhood businesses are disappearing and are being replaced by franchises, large chains, or establishments geared towards tourist consumption, which impoverishes the identity of the neighborhoods and reduces the services intended for the resident population. For this reason, MÉS proposes to promote specific regulation of commercial rents in the most tense areas, with the aim of avoiding disproportionate price increases, facilitating the continuity of local businesses and preserving the commercial diversity of the city. "When speculation enters through the door, neighborhood commerce leaves through the window," summarized Pujol.The spokesperson for MÉS per Palma, Neus Truyol, recalled that the disappearance of traditional commerce is a direct consequence of the same model that expels residents from neighborhoods. MÉS also recalled that the General Plan promoted during the last term incorporated tools to preserve the commercial balance of the neighborhoods and limit the concentration of tourist uses, but that the Popular Party abandoned that model.For the ecosovereignist party, protecting local trade is a city policy comparable to housing regulation. "If we regulate residential rents so that people can continue living in their neighborhoods, we must also protect the businesses that make daily life possible. Without local trade, neighborhoods lose their identity and cease to be neighborhoods," concluded Pujol.

The Association for the Rehabilitation of Old Centers (ARCA) has requested that the Pesquero bar project be rejected and that it be re-evaluated by the Palma City Council's Historic Center Commission. According to ARCA, the proposal approved by the Consistory is "disrespectful" to the heritage complex of the maritime facade and considers that the procedure followed "may have incurred irregularities".

The Palma City Council will demolish the building of the Son Reus municipal animal protection health center to build two new ones. The Governing Board approved this Wednesday the contracting file to tender the works and services necessary to erect a new administrative building and another auxiliary one. The project has a base tender budget of 1,986,409.23 euros (VAT included) and, according to the spokesperson for the municipal government team, Mercedes Celeste, it is "a decisive step in the modernization of municipal facilities that had not experienced any action of this magnitude for years".

The Palma City Council announced this Wednesday that the old Firefighters' station in the Son Castelló industrial estate, which is owned by Asima, will become the new Local Police station. The Council will rent the facilities for 20 years, until 2046, for 3.52 million euros including VAT. Asima will be entirely responsible for carrying out the adaptation works, which will cost approximately one million euros, explained the spokesperson for the City Council, Mercedes Celeste, at the press conference following the government board meeting. Currently, the premises were used as a sociocultural space, and have hosted fairs, courses, competitions, exhibitions, professional conferences, and even the filming of the seriesTreu Foc for IB3 Television.

The National Police have arrested two men for sexually assaulting a woman in El Arenal. The victim reported the events to the Police last Thursday, as confirmed to Europa Press by police sources. According to the woman's account, the two suspects allegedly subjected her to a chemical assault before sexually assaulting her.

Palma City Council has initially approved the new municipal ordinance on urbanization, trees, and open spaces, replacing the one in effect since 1985. It unifies criteria for the design and transformation of public spaces with the aim of "improving accessibility, sustainability, legal certainty, and urban quality," as explained by the Councilor for Urbanism, Housing, and Strategic Projects, Óscar Fidalgo, at a press conference. "With this step, Cort has an updated instrument that will allow for the planning of future urban developments under common criteria of quality, sustainability, accessibility, and legal certainty," he highlighted.

The Local Police have seized 5,723 counterfeit products in a large-scale operation against commercial fraud carried out in Platja de Palma, an action in which 21 people were investigated as alleged perpetrators of crimes against industrial property. The inspections took place between 11:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. in 21 commercial establishments located on Cartago street, the Arenal road, and Plaça de les Meravelles.

The citizen platform Flipau amb Pere Garau has requested the EMT of Palma to extend the NitBus service also on weekdays to respond to the needs of workers with night shifts. The entity assures that many residents of neighborhoods such as Pere Garau, Son Gotleu, el Rafal, and el Vivero, especially those working in restaurants, hospitality, and retail, are left without public transport to return home once the service of line 5 ends, around 11:30 PM.

The Civil Guard has taken charge of the investigation to try to clarify the circumstances surrounding the appearance of a neighbor from the port of Andratx, a 59-year-old Spaniard, dead inside a car.

A judge has sent three men arrested for robbing a game room near Aragó street in Palma with a simulated pistol to provisional prison, where they took the cash register. This is how police sources explained it to EFE in relation to the situation of the alleged perpetrators of the robbery, which occurred on June 8 around 4:45 a.m. in an establishment in Palma.

The ATAP union (Association of Public Administration Workers) has reported this Thursday serious security deficiencies and labor conditions in the Palma Local Police, with interns patrolling alone and without the necessary police equipment. This is a situation that, in their opinion, puts their integrity at risk and could compromise the legal validity of certain police actions.

Palma Firefighters have attended on several occasions this Tuesday to cool the area where a truck fire occurred on Monday and, at the moment, it has been declared extinguished, as confirmed by the Firefighters.

The Alaska kiosk in Plaça del Mercat has been incorporated into the Registry of Emblematic Establishments of the Palma City Council, along with eight other businesses. With these new additions, the registry managed by the PalmaActiva Commerce area reaches 135 protected establishments.

In the Mallorca of late Francoism, the revolution began in La Calatrava, a small neighborhood of Palma located between the cathedral and the Baluard del Príncep. Antoni Rotger Martínez was its alma mater. “I no longer recognize – he laments at 80 years old – the streets where I grew up and played with other children. There are tourists everywhere and, because of gentrification, many of my former comrades in struggle have had to leave. This was a rundown, working-class neighborhood, and now it is prey to the real estate speculation that the entire island suffers from”. In 1975, this man from Calatrava, of the 'pedra picada' style, was 32 years old and, with Franco agonizing, he already led the neighborhood mobilization against the construction of a large parking lot for tourist coaches in front of the Cathedral. The cry of protest was ‘Park YES, parking NO’. Due to that pressure, in May 1976 the City Council rectified and gave way to a competition of ideas for the design of the current Parc de la Mar, which was inaugurated in 1984.

The people recently evicted from the old Palma prison have been relocated to various points in the city, such as Can Pere Antoni beach, the green area next to the Gesa building, and Bellver forest. This was denounced this Friday by the NGO Doctors of the World, which warns that the eviction has not resolved the situation of vulnerability, but has only displaced and made it invisible.

The automatic transfer process of the remaining wallet balance from the Citizen Card to the Intermodal Single Card has concluded, after a transfer was made to a total of 173,643 people. In this way, 70.2% of the regular users of the Citizen Card who had a balance pending transfer have been able to receive it on their new card automatically. 29.8% remains pending some additional management or verification.The process, which has been carried out progressively over the past few weeks, has concluded with the sending of 63,732 SMS messages and 69,274 emails to the people listed in the contact data of the Consorci de Transports de Mallorca.People who have not received any message can easily check if the transfer has been made correctly, by accessing this link and entering their identification details.