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    <title><![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - Vox]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA["The main enemy for Vox is not the left, but the PP"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/the-main-enemy-for-vox-is-not-the-left-but-the-pp_128_5715805.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/05854f20-8269-4259-ac6a-2abdc773a8a0_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The doctor in Political Science from the University of Valencia and author of <a href="https://editorial.tirant.com/es/ebook/la-extrema-derecha-en-europa-anna-lopez-ortega-9788410811607" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><em>La extrema dreta a Europa</em></a> (Tirant), Anna Isabel López Ortega, considers the <a href="https://www.ara.cat/politica/pp-vox-arriben-acord-extremadura_1_5709772.html" target="_blank">agreement between the PP and Vox in Extremadura</a> "a warning for navigators with neon lights": "It marks a turning point for future agreements". Especially, due to its harshness in the anti-immigration discourse, because the text of the agreement proposes, for the first time, a clause of "national priority" to access public aid or subsidized housing in general. In fact, the two parties have already replicated the <a href="https://www.ara.cat/politica/pp-vox-tambe-arriben-acord-l-arago-investir-jorge-azcon_1_5715439.html" target="_blank">formula in Aragon</a>, and are beginning to bring national priority to debate in other institutions, <a href="https://www.ara.cat/politica/pp-porta-congres-prioritat-nacional-rebre-ajudes-pactada-vox_1_5714371.html" target="_blank">such as Congress</a> or <a href="https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/vox-brings-national-priority-to-parliament-and-forces-the-pp-to-speak-out_1_5715398.html" target="_blank">the Balearic Parliament</a>.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:54:16 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Anna Isabel López Ortega]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Doctor of Political Science and author of 'The Extreme Right in Europe']]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vox brings "national priority" to Parliament and forces the PP to speak out]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/vox-brings-national-priority-to-parliament-and-forces-the-pp-to-speak-out_1_5715398.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/5a21365f-c2c8-477a-9b2b-34bababa9aa7_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Vox continues to squeeze the pact with the PP in Extremadura. After <a href="https://www.ara.cat/politica/pp-porta-congres-prioritat-nacional-rebre-ajudes-pactada-vox_1_5714371.html" target="_blank">registering a motion in Congress to establish a "national priority"</a> when receiving aid and subsidies, it is beginning to do the same in other territories. The spokesperson for Vox in the Balearic Parliament, Manuela Cañadas, announced this Wednesday that she has registered a non-binding proposal along the same lines. With this move, the far-right once again pulls the PP into its territory, forcing it to pronounce on an issue that makes it uncomfortable, as various popular leaders have already expressed, such as the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. </p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:41:42 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Manuela Cañadas, in Parliament in an archive image]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Sources of the popular ones refer to studying the content of the proposal]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vox's warning to the PP: it overturns all its amendments to the omnibus law]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/vox-s-warning-to-the-pp-it-throws-out-all-its-amendments-to-the-omnibus-law_1_5714496.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/ade24102-3c94-49aa-9168-c9c302282cec_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The conflict between the PP and Vox has once again become evident in the Balearic Parliament. The far-right party has voted against all the amendments presented by the PP, some 80, to the strategic projects law, known as the òmnibus law, during the deliberation of the Committee on Finance and Budgets this Tuesday. <a href="https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/thus-are-the-amendments-to-the-law-of-strategic-projects-from-concessions-to-vox-to-ex-military-police-officers_1_5693472.html" target="_blank">The move leaves a package of key measures for the legislature in suspense and is seen as a clear warning from Vox to Marga Prohens' Government.</a>The decision means that several prominent proposals will be blocked or will have to be debated again. Among these amendments are tax reductions to expand the thresholds for the Property Transfer Tax (ITP) bonus, to reduce the tax on Documented Legal Acts (AJD), as well as a 50% reduction in both ITP and AJD for the purchase of limited-price housing.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:51:18 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The PP deputies in Parliament, with president Marga Prohens and vice-presidents Antoni Costa and Antònia Estarellas in the front row]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Tax and housing initiatives are on hold pending further negotiations]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vox no longer has a local office in Menorca: "The party is broken up"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/vox-no-longer-has-local-office-in-menorca-the-party-is-broken-up_1_5711247.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/f770e1c2-a4f6-4ec6-b65b-0edd7447e7ef_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>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.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:49:29 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[A Vox rally with the presence of Jorge Campos in the Plaça del Bastió in Maó, in 2022.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The state leadership has almost absolute control over loyal regional deputies, while Menorcan cadres try to rebuild its structure]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[New tension in the full Manacor with the controversial Vox councilor: "You are dictators, you are braggarts"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/society/new-tension-in-the-manacor-plenary-session-with-the-controversial-vox-councilor-you-are-dictators-you-are-showmen_1_5709137.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/88fd43ea-8a69-4283-a180-dff924d1f5bf_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>That the plenary sessions of the Manacor City Council are something else is a fact demonstrable with the videos that the council itself uploads each month to its Youtube channel. It is clear that like any good ‘show’, the plenary session has politically boring and administrative procedural moments; but it has others, especially when it comes to the turn of requests and questions, where the emotion skyrockets (and often goes crazy).</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sebastià Vanrell]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:00:09 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Tension in the plenary session of the Manacor City Council.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The mayor warns the Vox spokesperson for constant interruptions in a heated debate about culture and language that ends with strong cross-accusations]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[The PSIB accepts the private university of Mallorca, but says it "will be vigilant"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/the-psib-accepts-the-private-university-of-mallorca-but-says-it-will-be-vigilant_1_5707318.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/31d83aac-dbac-4640-9402-85ddd2c047f0_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The PSIB strongly opposed the <a href="https://www.arabalears.cat/educacio/prohens-defensa-creacio-d-nova-universitat-privada-prestigi_1_5378230.html" target="_blank">creation of a private university affiliated with CEU San Pablo in Mallorca</a>. However, it accepts the creation of the Private University of Mallorca (UMAC) promoted by the private higher education center ADEMA. The project received the endorsement of the Parliament this Tuesday with the favorable votes of the PP and Vox and the abstention of the PSIB, while MÉS per Mallorca, Més per Menorca and Unides Podem voted against it. "This law is not our project, it has shortcomings and risks and we will be vigilant," defended the socialist deputy Mercedes Garrido.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:17:42 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The spokesperson of the PSIB in Parliament, Iago Negueruela]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The PP and Vox approve the creation of the UMAC with the abstention of the socialists]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Prohens warns Vox with Orbán's defeat: "Populism cannot fool everyone"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/prohens-warns-vox-with-orban-s-defeat-populism-cannot-fool-everyone_1_5707053.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/ae02d337-0ab2-4d86-8be0-8e734833dd06_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The PP deputies do not hide this Tuesday their satisfaction for the defeat of Viktor Orbán in the elections in Hungary. They see in the fact that the one who has ousted the extremist is not precisely from the left but Péter Magyar, a former member of their own ranks, a trend in favor of a more moderate right. While Vox, which sent its leader, Gabriel Le Senne, to campaign for Orbán in Hungary,<a href="https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/le-senne-leaves-the-plenary-session-of-parliament-to-attend-an-event-of-the-hungarian-far-right_1_5687800.html" target="_blank">sent its leader, Gabriel Le Senne, to campaign for Orbán in Hungary,</a> now downplays the debacle, the president of the Government, Marga Prohens, has taken care to recall it in the session of control to the Government. In an exchange with Vox in Parliament, the popular politician warned him to be "alert" with populism, because "it cannot fool everyone all the time".</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:03:04 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Marga Prohens this morning in Parliament]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The president of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, campaigned for the Hungarian extremist]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Prohens warns Vox after Orbán's defeat: "Populism cannot fool everyone"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/prohens-warns-vox-with-orban-s-defeat-populism-cannot-fool-everyone_1_5707046.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/ae02d337-0ab2-4d86-8be0-8e734833dd06_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The PP deputies do not hide their satisfaction this Tuesday over Viktor Orbán's defeat in the Hungarian elections. They see in the fact that the one who has unseated the extremist is not precisely from the left but Péter Magyar, a former member of their own ranks, a trend in favor of a more moderate right. While Vox, which sent its leader, Gabriel Le Senne, to campaign for Orbán in Hungary,is now downplaying the debacle, the president of the Govern, Marga Prohens, has taken it upon herself to recall it in the control session of the Govern. In an exchange with Vox in the Parliament, the Popular Party member warned them to be "alert" to populism, because "it cannot fool everyone all the time".</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:02:10 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Marga Prohens this morning in Parliament]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The President of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, campaigned for the Hungarian extremist]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[The PSIB joins the right and facilitates the creation of a private university named Mallorca]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/pp-vox-and-psib-support-the-creation-of-private-university-named-mallorca_1_5706126.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/5fb9caeb-2d52-4596-958c-1aa4b7773bea_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The plenary session of the Parliament will give the green light to the creation of a private university that will bear the name of Mallorca with the favorable vote of the PP and Vox, the abstention of the PSIB, and the vote against MÉS per Mallorca. This is the <a href="https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/psib-and-vox-give-the-green-light-to-the-pp-to-accelerate-the-creation-of-the-new-private-university-in-mallorca_1_5573231.html" >Universitat de Mallorca (UMAC)</a>, promoted by the private higher education center ADEMA, chaired by Diego González, former general secretary of the PSIB in Palma and former director general during the mandate of Francesc Antich. The vote will take place tomorrow in the plenary session of the Parliament. From here, both the Consell de Govern and the Consell d'Universitats will also have to approve it.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:21:07 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[University students, in a file image.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The Parliament begins the path to create the UMAC, promoted by ADEMA, with the rejection of MÉS per Mallorca and still pending the approval of the Government and the University Council]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vox: fleas bite]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>It should not surprise anyone that the party that has accumulated the most internal crises in the Balearic Islands since the beginning of the legislature (between splits, cross-accusations, and dissenting votes) is now going through its own ordeal at the state level. Let it be known that I do not use this Easter and Christian expression for nothing: what Vox is experiencing these weeks is the explosion of an escalation that its democratic tradition (sic) has precipitated since they began to torpedo the Spanish party map. Who could have imagined that a force so open to reflection, so fond of complexities, so enamored of individual liberties and dialogue would end up sinking on all fronts? Who would have said that the party of bracelets with the flag of the Empire and the '<em>fachalecos</em>' (perhaps in Catalan we could call them 'fatxapits'...) would end up having serious internal problems due to a lack of debate and consensus?The electoral results in the recent elections in Aragón, Castilla y León, and Extremadura might suggest that the party is in top form, but its internal reality is very different. While the respective regional formations struggle to influence or enter these governments, it seems that numerous militants and founders of the far-right party would be trying to force an extraordinary congress to put an end to Santiago Abascal's leadership (that gentleman who for decades has denounced the vices of the political caste without ever having worked at anything else, yes, the man with chest hair who skipped military service), while, in parallel, the Justice system is investigating two high-ranking party officials accused of revealing secrets.In the Islands, meanwhile, the PSIB a few days ago made yet another attempt to remove Gabriel Le Senne from the position of President of the Parliament, a position he has not been worthy of since the PP granted it to him. They accused him, in fact, of being like his party: contrary to the plurality and neutrality that should mark the exercise of this position and, ultimately, complicit in extending and legitimizing the discourses and values that allow homophobic aggressions like the one suffered a few days ago by a teacher at the IES Baltasar Porcel in Andratx (an aggression that the Parliament has condemned in its entirety, without the vote of Vox). The PP, however, preferred to ignore the socialists' offer and keep in office the one who tore up the portrait of Aurora Picornell, a woman imprisoned, tortured, and murdered by the supporters of a dictatorship that neither the PP nor Vox have ever condemned.A few years ago, following a personal disappointment, a good friend told me that sometimes some people are also fleas, and fleas, as you know... Fleas bite. Thus, it is no surprise that the party that has sown discord and intolerance, those who have stirred up political debate even before having representation in any parliament, are now drinking their own medicine and attacking each other. If it weren't for the pathetic nature of it, it would even be a pleasure to watch.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sebastià Portell]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:31:43 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[PP and Vox recover amendments to the Projects Law despite the lawyers' warning]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/pp-and-vox-recover-amendments-to-the-law-of-projects-despite-the-lawyers-warning_1_5701330.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/ade24102-3c94-49aa-9168-c9c302282cec_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Neither the <a href="https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/the-pp-and-vox-fill-the-strategic-projects-law-with-amendments-other-issues_1_5688928.html" target="_blank">lawyers' criticisms</a>, nor the PSIB's opposition, nor the <a href="https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/more-prepares-the-ground-to-take-to-the-constitutional-the-amendments-of-the-pp-that-turn-upside-down-70-norms_1_5693887.html" target="_blank">threat from MÉS</a> to go to the Constitutional Court have stopped the PP and Vox in their attempt to modify 70 norms at once through the Law on strategic projects. The two parties have recovered, asserting their majority in the Parliament's Board, the hundred amendments (88 from the PP and 12 from Vox) that the Economy Commission's board rejected, considering that they had nothing to do with the object of the Law. </p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:17:45 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The PP deputies in Parliament, with president Marga Prohens and vice-presidents Antoni Costa and Antònia Estarellas in the front row]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The two parties want to modify seventy norms through the Strategic Projects Law]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vox distributes bracelets with the wrong colors of the Spanish flag]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/vox-distributes-bracelets-with-the-wrong-colors-of-the-flag-of-spain_1_5698911.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/ffbf846a-3c9a-4c55-968a-a8e4ae65f296_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Vox has distributed bracelets with the wrong color combination of the Spanish flag. The material was handed out during a party event in Ibiza and the error did not go unnoticed.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:39:26 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The bracelet distributed at the event in Ibiza]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The material was distributed during a party event in Ibiza and has generated comments on social media]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Le Senne accuses the PP of demonizing Vox: "We are the party that most defends women and homosexuals"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/le-senne-accuses-the-pp-of-demonizing-vox-we-are-the-party-that-most-defends-women-and-homosexuals_1_5696052.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/0c8fda16-defb-42f5-b842-ab47447becb9_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The President of the Parliament and leader of Vox in the Balearic Islands, Gabriel Le Senne, accused the PP this Wednesday of collaborating with the left in the demonization of Vox. In several social media posts, Le Senne referred to the accusations of homophobia he received on Tuesday in Parliament, in which he criticized a mural in a high school showing two boys kissing, which he described as ideological. Regarding this video, he defended the need to respect everyone regardless of their sexual orientation.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:45:17 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Video of Le Senne on social media.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The president of Parliament criticizes "indoctrination" in educational centers and defends removing "political ideology" from institutions]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vox explodes against the PP: "We will have to sign the agreements with a notary and hostages"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/vox-explodes-against-the-pp-we-will-have-to-sign-the-agreements-with-notary-and-hostages_1_5694970.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/c34d0fa6-c136-4d95-b534-73377077f6a0_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Vox is once again attacking democratic memory. The deputy of the parliamentary group, Sergio Rodríguez, is not satisfied with the repeal of the Autonomous Law of Memory, <a href="https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/pp-and-vox-condemn-the-law-of-historical-memory-in-front-of-the-victims-families_1_5673680.html" target="_blank">which took place on March 10</a>. He has attacked the Government for continuing to pursue memory policies under the umbrella of state regulations. In the plenary session of Parliament, he lamented that the agreement to eliminate this law has no practical effect. "In this Parliament we legislate so that nothing changes," he criticized: "We will have to reach agreements of 6,000 pages, with a notary and hostages."</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:05:41 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Sergio Rodríguez this Tuesday in Parliament]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The far-right considers that despite accessing their demands on paper, the Government does not apply them afterwards]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vox explodes against the PP: "We will have to sign the agreements with a notary and hostages"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/vox-explodes-against-the-pp-we-will-have-to-sign-the-agreements-with-notary-and-hostages_1_5694933.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/c34d0fa6-c136-4d95-b534-73377077f6a0_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Vox attacks democratic memory again. The deputy of the parliamentary group, Sergio Rodríguez, is not satisfied with the repeal of the regional memory law, <a href="https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/pp-and-vox-condemn-the-law-of-historical-memory-in-front-of-the-victims-families_1_5673680.html" target="_blank">which took place on March 10</a>. He has attacked the Government for continuing to implement memory policies under the umbrella of state regulations. In the plenary session of the Parliament, he lamented that the agreement to eliminate this law has no practical effects. "In this Parliament we legislate so that nothing changes," he criticized: "We will have to reach agreements of 6,000 pages, with a notary and hostage-taking".</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:43:16 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Sergio Rodríguez this Tuesday in Parliament]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The far-right considers that despite agreeing to their demands on paper, the Government does not apply them afterwards]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[The countdown begins]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/opinion/the-countdown-begins_129_5694698.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>One year exactly until the end of the term. At the end of March next year, Parliament will be dissolved and elections will be called, and the PProhens-Vox pact will have completed its (first?) cycle.Despite the usual excuses – the fateful previous eight years, the unsupportive state government, the very lengthy preliminary studies...– it is starting to be time to assess the rupture, in case one absurdity has been burying the previous one and now, in Trumpian style, we can only recall the latest massacre.The general stench of the legislature is exasperating. The 2025 budget pact, for example, included the refusal to host immigrant minors from other territories or opposition to the European Green Deal. “Two issues that at no time have been an obstacle to negotiation,” Prohens enthusiastically stressed.The legislature has not been very democratic – neither in dialogue nor social dialogue – nor very scrupulous with procedures, with the abuse of opaque processing, such as amendments to the law on strategic projects, which aim to modify up to 50 laws through the back door. The body of parliamentary lawyers has already unanimously warned about this repeated <em>modus operandi</em> and its possible unconstitutionality.Another attribute of the mandate is the dissonance between the music – freedom, efficiency, streamlining...– and the lyrics: urbanistic amnesty, construction on rustic land, increase in urbanistic development rights, construction in flood-prone areas, privatization of public space...Or between what is said – promoting access to housing, fighting against tourist saturation...– and what is done: failure of secure rental programs and the Anti-squatting Office, refusal to limit rental cars and to increase the eco-tax, permissiveness with illegal tourist rentals...It has also been the legislature of euphemisms. See the emergency glossary: ‘freeing up land’, ‘paving the outskirts’; ‘boosting the economy’, ‘benefiting speculators’; ‘freedom’, ‘privileges of the elites’; ‘simplifying’, ‘eliminating controls and guarantees’; ‘accelerating procedures’, ‘outsourcing the Administration’...The educational legislature has been marked by the fiasco of the pilot plan – a stratagem to inject 21 million euros annually into 19 subsidized centers in exchange for violating the spirit of the linguistic regulations – and by the contradiction between what is said – the improbable creation of 77 new educational centers and an aerostatic ‘City of Arts’ is announced – and what is done – dismantling of IES Politècnic and CEIP Felip Bauçà, 3rd line in CEIP de Pràctiques...The Conselleria has clearly opted for educational privatization: private vocational training, subsidized 0-3 year olds and baccalaureate programs, diversion of students to subsidized schools, new private universities, complicity with employers... And for school segregation with the introduction of a single school zone and points per former student, which secures family privileges, blurs the neighborhood school, attacks equity, and makes equal opportunities impossible.Above all, it will have been a legislature daily enlivened by spectacular – and ghostly – projects: a train to Llucmajor that goes underground through Palma, a train to Alcúdia that pierces two entire mountains, various underground works (Gesa, Plaza Mayor, Paseo Marítimo...), exhibition centers, botanical gardens...Just now a metro line has been announced that will start... in 2029! and that (they say) will cost 230 million euros. Does anyone keep track of so many unrealistic projects? It would be advisable, because it is not until this year that we will have finished paying for the Palma Arena (90 million euros) and the Ibiza highways (2003) will not be fully paid off until 2035!The <em>render</em> is smoking, yes. Reality, however, follows a different pace: maximum tension in the old prison; the Catalina Valls theater closed since 2022; none of the 26 announced parking lots in Palma will begin construction this term; paralysis at the s’Aigo Dolça swimming pools (under construction since 2022), at the Son Forteza bridge, at El Tirador...; two years without collecting the fee from the bars in Parque de la Mar, inability to close the two illegal gas stations in Palma...The situation is getting complicated: 90,000 people on the waiting list in public healthcare, loss of 180 hectares of rustic land annually, project to destroy the west flank of the port of Palma: large repair area, Ibiza waste treatment plant, 10 hectares of new concrete docks...And few qualms in ideological matters: dental tests for immigrant minors, repeal of the memory law, hearing in parliament of ‘National Uprising’ and ‘Crusade of Liberation’, abandonment of people in situations of social emergency, obsession against Catalan (discounts, regressions, bites, exceptions...), 895 healthcare professionals without knowledge of Catalan...I'm starting to feel like moving a bit. Aren't you?	</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Nanda Ramon]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:30:45 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Government expects "unanimous" support for the anti-crisis decree despite not having consulted the parties]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/the-government-expects-unanimous-support-for-the-anti-crisis-decree-despite-not-having-consulted-the-parties_1_5694063.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/7849e5e6-5af1-4baa-a9da-ccc31f7deed7_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The Government met last Wednesday with the spokespeople of the parliamentary groups to hear their proposals before presenting its anti-crisis decree-law. It is a series of economic measures to address the increase in prices caused by the war in Iran. But just two days later, President Marga Prohens announced the Executive's proposal. She did so, as MÉS per Mallorca and Vox have denounced, without even sending them a draft of the decree-law beforehand. Nevertheless, the PP expects it to be approved with "unanimous" or "the broadest possible" consensus.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:06:20 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The price of gasoline is one of the causes of the increase in inflation.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[MÉS per Mallorca and Vox criticize not having received any draft before the announcement by President Prohens]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[No party guarantees support for the Government's anti-crisis decree: "We haven't even seen the draft"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/the-government-expects-unanimous-support-for-the-anti-crisis-decree-despite-not-having-consulted-the-parties_1_5694040.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/7849e5e6-5af1-4baa-a9da-ccc31f7deed7_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The PP expects the Govern's anti-crisis decree to be approved with "unanimity" or, if not, with the "broadest possible" consensus. But, for now, no party has guaranteed its support for the measure that President Marga Prohens presented last Friday. It is a series of economic aid measures to cope with the price increase caused by the war in Iran. However, both Vox and MÉS per Mallorca have criticized that the Executive has not even shown them the text. "We don't even have a draft," said the spokesperson for the far-right, Manuela Cañadas. For their part, the PSIB has limited themselves to saying that they are waiting to see if the decree also includes social measures.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:58:28 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The price of gasoline is one of the causes of the increase in inflation.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The PP expects "unanimous" support for the measure despite having presented it unilaterally]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[The PP makes a pre-election sprint and tries to change 70 norms at once]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/the-pp-makes-pre-election-sprint-and-tries-to-change-70-norms-at-once_130_5693482.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/b1f32723-a6b3-4ae1-8716-44f3ecdb18c6_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>A race against time for the PP to push through the maximum possible legislative changes before the elections. Their main obstacle is the slowness of bill processing in Parliament. To overcome it, they have devised some solutions: an abuse of the decree-law figure, which the Constitutional Court criticized last Friday in a ruling, and the stuffing of legislative initiatives with amendments that have nothing to do with them. But with the processing of the law to accelerate strategic projects, the popular party has gone too far: they have submitted 88 amendments affecting up to 70 different norms, most of them unrelated to strategic projects. Furthermore, they have introduced some of the agreements with Vox against Catalan and immigration.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:13:21 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The seats of the Popular Party, with the first vice-president, Antoni Costa, last Tuesday in Parliament.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Aware that he has little time left in his term, he takes advantage of the processing of a law to present 72 amendments on issues that have nothing to do with it]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Thus are the amendments to the law of strategic projects: from concessions to Vox to ex-military police officers]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/thus-are-the-amendments-to-the-law-of-strategic-projects-from-concessions-to-vox-to-ex-military-police-officers_1_5693472.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/3f6cded6-e0ab-4839-80f7-2b6e41563fdb_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The PP has presented dozens of amendments to the law on strategic projects that have nothing to do with the purpose of the norm. Some have served to create an almost parallel norm. Otherwise, it has invited Vox to present some of its pacts on Catalan and immigration, also through amendments.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:12:42 +0000]]></pubDate>
      <media:content url="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/3f6cded6-e0ab-4839-80f7-2b6e41563fdb_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" type="image/jpeg"/>
      <media:title><![CDATA[The PP has presented dozens of amendments to the law on strategic projects that have nothing to do with the object of the norm]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The norm has served the PP to officialize the pacts with its partner and to modify several laws, saving deadlines]]></subtitle>
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