The Consell de Mallorca approved this Friday in an extraordinary plenary session the law to limit vehicles on the island, which after this step will be sent to Parliament. Curiously, the plenary session was on the verge of being cancelled because the president of the island institution, Llorenç Galmés, arrived almost half an hour late. The reason? He had to arrive in Palma from Manacor and found traffic jams due to "three accidents", as he himself explained.

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 Consell de Mallorca will present the 2026 Awards, Honors, and Distinctions on September 12 at the Principal Theatre in Palma, in a gala where actor Michael Douglas will be named Adoptive Son of Mallorca and singers Rels B and Concha Buika will be honored as Favorite Sons.

The Consell de Mallorca will invest one million euros in various advertising actions to promote Mallorca during 2026. It begins with 'De bon de veres', focused on promoting local products and the island's identity. Singer-songwriter Jaume Anglada and chefs Margalida Alemany and Joan Pinel participate, without charge, as ambassadors.

The Plenary of the Consell de Mallorca approved this Thursday the free transfer to the Balearic Housing Institute of the land located next to the Illes Balears Velodrome, in Palma, so that more than 300 public protection homes can be built. Thus, the announcement made by President Llorenç Galmés in the General Policy Debate held on March 30 to "provide a response and solution to the main problem of the Majorcans: access to housing" becomes effective.

The Mallorcan chef Macarena de Castro received this Tuesday the Sobrassada d’Or – Excel·lència de Mallorca 2026 award, an honorary prize promoted by the Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) Sobrassada de Mallorca and the Department of Economic Promotion and Local Development of the Consell de Mallorca.

The controversy over the use of public cars by the second vice-president of the Consell de Mallorca, Pedro Bestard (Vox), has brought to light voices that warn that the practice is not anecdotal among workers. Bestard himself admitted last Thursday that he never kept a record of which car he took or the route he took. “I didn't know it had to be done”, he justified: “The staff themselves don't do it”. According to the testimony of four workers from the island institution [who requested anonymity], it is “known” that some public employees take advantage of a lack of exhaustive control of vehicles to use them in their private lives. They specify this in two areas: Environment (led by Bestard) and Roads (dependent on Territory). “Some don't even have their own car, they use the one from work”, explains one of them.

The second vice-president of the Consell de Mallorca, Pedro Bestard, appeared this Thursday to clarify the use he has made of two vehicles from the insular institution. But the appearance served above all to confirm one thing: that Vox considers it a sufficient explanation to say that Bestard does a lot of work and travels to many places in Mallorca. Wanting to know what two public vehicles were doing —without the label identifying them as such— parked in front of his house is nothing more than a strategy by the left to wear down the PP government and the far-right, according to the spokesperson for Vox on the Council, Antoni Gili. Denying that a Subaru and a Dacia, which should be used for institutional tasks, have been used personally is already, apparently, providing explanations.

The second vice-president of the Consell de Mallorca, Pedro Bestard, appeared this Thursday before the Transparency Commission of the Consell de Mallorca to give explanations on the use he has made of two vehicles of the island institution. But, beyond denying personal use, Bestard has not provided any concrete information. He has explained, however, that his department is scattered throughout the island and that this forces him to travel. "If I go from Manacor to Alcudia and I have to stop to eat in Ses Torres, I will stop. Or in Es Cruce," he said at one point during his speech, during which he did not clarify whether he ordered the vehicles to be left unlabeled, nor the routes, nor the kilometers traveled, nor why two Consell cars have also been seen spending the night in front of his house. On this occasion, Bestard arrived at the Consell in an official car with a chauffeur and demanded that, once the reports commissioned by President Llorenç Galmés are released, the left-wing parties apologize to him. "I want them to apologize to me publicly," he snapped at the PSOE spokesperson, Catalina Cladera.

The Consell de Mallorca will conduct two reports to ascertain whether the vice-president of the insular institution, Pedro Bestard, has misused the institution's official cars, using them for party events and private matters. As ARA Balears has learned, one will be prepared by the Secretary General of the Consell and the other by the Technical Secretariat of the Department of Environment. But there will be a third report: the one that the president of the Consell, Llorenç Galmés, requested from Bestard this Monday, after meeting with him to demand explanations. Galmés has also demanded that he immediately label the vehicles with the Consell de Mallorca logo and that they return to General Riera every day, where they must spend the nights.

Regularization, migration, the people from here, siren effect, registry, residence, rights, collapse, obstacles, boycott... These words –and a few more– have been monopolizing the political debate for weeks, in a loop that no longer hides where it is heading and that drags us towards increasingly dark ideological zones. Meanwhile, an idea as simple as it is uncomfortable is consolidating: skin color, place of birth, and the religion practiced determine a person's rights in the Balearic Islands. What is the excuse? That to be a full citizen, one must accumulate years of residence.

MÉS per Mallorca on Sunday called for the resignation of the Vice President of the Consell de Mallorca, Pedro Bestard (Vox), following the publication of information pointing to an alleged irregular use of official vehicles of the institution for personal travel and party activities.

The Consell de Mallorca will finally require a minimum of five years of legal residence to be eligible for social aid included in the package intended to alleviate the economic effects derived from the war in Iran. Initially, the island institution had planned to set this requirement at three years.

The Consell de Mallorca has declared the traditional production technique of 'tela de lenguas' (fabric of languages) as Intangible Cultural Heritage (Bicim), with the aim of protecting, preserving, and guaranteeing the continuity of this living heritage deeply rooted in Mallorcan identity.

Active, healthy, and committed young people. This is the challenge that the Consell de Mallorca sets for the island's youth and which it develops through various programs that combine mental health, creativity, nature, and new opportunities. With this commitment, the institution wants to respond to the real concerns of young people and offer them useful tools for their day-to-day lives, from emotional well-being to personal expression or quality free time. In the words of the president of the Consell, Llorenç Galmés, “we have not only the obligation, but the firm will to support our young people and contribute to their integral growth. It is, without a doubt, the best investment we can make for Mallorca: betting on the talent, well-being, and development of the capabilities of our young people”.

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.

The Consell de Mallorca has decided to halt, for the moment and for technical reasons, part of the aid package to confront the economic effects derived from the war in Iran. This involves 17.5 million euros that the government team had planned to incorporate into this year's budget through a credit modification charged to the surplus.

The Consell de Mallorca has decided to halt, for the moment and for technical reasons, part of the aid package to cope with the economic effects derived from the war in Iran. This amounts to 17.5 million euros that the government team had planned to incorporate into this year's budget through a credit modification charged to the remainder.

The president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, has announced the Plan Mallorca protects, endowed with 84 million euros, to face the economic and social impact of the war conflict in the Middle East, because "the island institution acts with responsibility, diligence and speed to protect the families, businesses and productive sector of Mallorca".

The president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, has taken advantage of the island institution's general policy debate to make the umpteenth announcement about the island's tourist capacity ceiling. This time, Galmés has once again announced that he will reduce the number of places, just two months after the insular Minister of Tourism, Guillem Ginard, indicated that they would not be cut because it was not an urgent measure. However, after three years of contradictory announcements, the Consell has not made any decision on the capacity ceiling beyond saying that it will do one thing or another. Currently, the ceiling in Mallorca is 430,000 tourist places.