Amanda Fernández, a teacher by profession, a member of Parliament and Secretary General of the Socialist Federation of Mallorca, now faces the challenge of contesting the presidency of the Council. She began as a councilwoman in Manacor and was a director general during the governments of Francina Armengol. Now, she defends a project based on setting limits on growth, reducing tourist spots and strengthening the role of the island institution.What do you want to change about Mallorca that justifies you wanting to preside over the Council?

The Inca City Council has initiated legal action against the agreements reached this Thursday by the Board of Trustees of the Teatre Principal d'Inca Foundation. In an extraordinary session, representatives of the Government of the Balearic Islands and the Council of Mallorca, together with the votes of the Popular Party of Inca, approved the new bases for the selection of the management-directorship of the Teatre Principal, despite having unfavorable reports from the legal services and the secretary of the Foundation itself.

The Council of Mallorca presented this Thursday the program of events to celebrate the Mallorca Day, on September 12th. The institution led by Llorenç Galmés wants to take advantage of the anniversary to highlight the centenary of the song La Balanguera “to claim the identity and culture of the Mallorcan people”.

The box office of the Principal theatre, both the physical one at the theatre itself and the virtual one at www.teatreprincipal.com, will reopen this Wednesday with the sale of season tickets for the 2026/2027 season. Starting Saturday the 5th, general tickets will also go on sale. Subscribers will have a few days' advantage to choose their preferred seats; furthermore, the first 50 subscribers who purchase their season ticket at the theatre's box office will receive a gift.

The Manacor City Council will assume the organization of the municipality's participation in the Pujada a Lluc a peu de la Part Forana, which reaches its 45th edition. After the attempted implementation of the new organizational model promoted by the Consell de Mallorca, the Manacor City Council has had to take the lead to directly address the needs of the people of Manacor and ensure they can participate, for another year and free of charge, in this deeply rooted event in Mallorca.

The Consell de Mallorca anticipates that by the end of the year, approximately 200,000 ITV inspections will be carried out, a figure that would allow for around 534,000 vehicle inspections in 2026, in line with those performed last year. In fact, 350,898 technical vehicle inspections have already been conducted this year.

Pedro Rosselló will be the new Insular Director of Tourism for Offer and Quality of the Consell de Mallorca. The former mayor of Manacor will take office on September 1, succeeding Clara del Moral, who is leaving the institution due to her retirement.

The Majorcan Institute of Social Affairs (IMAS) has launched five Specialized Teams for Intervention in Risk Situations (EEISR) with the aim of assisting children and adolescents who are in situations of mild or moderate risk and, whenever possible, avoiding their entry into the child protection system. The teams began to be implemented at the end of last year and, after a training period, started their activities during the first months of 2026. This Tuesday, the president of IMAS, Guillermo Sánchez, and the insular director of Social Services, Childhood and Family, Apol·lònia Socias, presented their functioning after more than half a year of operation.

The Government has already taken the first step in the proceedings arising from the complaint by the Nature Protection Service (Seprona) of the Civil Guard for the dumping of more than three tons of chipped asphalt remains on various rural paths and public spaces in Petra.

MÉS per Mallorca has registered a series of questions to the Consell de Mallorca to ascertain the degree of compliance with the Plan for Intervention in Tourist Areas (PIAT), approved six years ago, and has accused the island government of the PP of not applying the tools provided to contain tourist pressure.

The socialist group on the Consell de Mallorca has accused the island institution this Friday of having outsourced the organization of Lluc a Peu de la Part Forana, tasks that were traditionally carried out by the Antics Blavets and volunteers who participated in the ascent.

Two young people from Mallorca have completed a month-long expedition through Nepal as part of the first Asian edition of Ruta Inti, a program of adventure, social immersion, and cultural exchange that has brought together 200 participants between 18 and 25 years old.

The Consell de Mallorca has begun the installation of the first cameras in the network with 210 control devices that will monitor the roads to prevent illegal races and control the entry of vehicles to the island.

The Principal Theatre of Palma presented this Thursday the 2026/2027 season, a proposal marked by critical spirit, social commitment, and the presence of top-level creators and performers. The Board of Trustees of the Principal Theatre Foundation of Palma has unanimously approved the new programming from September 2026 to January 2027, which includes theatre, music, dance, family shows, and the 41st Opera Season.

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.

Pedro Bestard defended himself this Thursday against criticism from the PSIB for the transfer of waste from Ibiza to Mallorca, assuring on repeated occasions that "it is waste, not excrement" and insisting that the pilot test will have no impact on Mallorca. The second vice-president and Minister of Environment of the Consell de Mallorca had a tense confrontation with the socialist deputy Juana María Adrover during the plenary session of the insular institution.

The Consell de Mallorca has approved a protocol regarding the use of official cars after the controversy experienced in recent months. A law that seems tailor-made for all the complaints and grievances regarding the use that "was made of the second vice-president of the Mallorca Council, Pedro Bestard, of these vehicles. The protocol arrives the same day that it has been made public the PSIB's complaint to the Prosecutor's Office following the actions of Vox, whom he accuses of "continued embezzlement of public funds, prevarication, and document forgery".

The socialist group in the Consell de Mallorca has filed a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office of the Balearic Islands against the second vice-president of the Consell de Mallorca, Pedro Bestard, for the use of the island institution's official cars.the second vice-president of the Consell de Mallorca, Pedro Bestard, for the use of the official cars of the island institution.

The water crisis in Pla de Mallorca is entering a new phase in terms of savings due to the lack of water resources in the region. The Algaida City Council yesterday approved a motion by the PSIB governing team, through which the plenary session calls on the Consell de Mallorca to urgently stop using water from the municipality's aquifers for cleaning and maintenance tasks on the Manacor road (Ma-15). The motion was unanimously approved by all parties present in the plenary session: PSIB, PP, and MÉS per Algaida.