The Palma City Council presented this Monday the modernization that the Municipal Sports Institute (IME) has carried out at the Son Moix Municipal Sports Palace. The interventions carried out there have involved the renovation of the lighting and sound systems of the pavilion and the swimming pool, to which must be added the comprehensive renovation of the removable parquet court, an action that was carried out during 2025. The total of these actions represents an investment of more than 1.1 million euros.One of the main actions has been the comprehensive renovation of the lighting of the main court of the Son Moix palace. The work, started last July 14th and concluded this September, has included the installation of new LED lighting and a new electrical infrastructure adapted so that sports competitions and television broadcasts can be held there. On the main court, a system consisting of 60 modular LED lights has been installed.The new installation also incorporates a control system, which allows for the configuration of different lighting scenes according to the needs of each activity. Likewise, a lighting system has been incorporated that allows the pavilion's atmosphere to be adapted to various types of events, from matches and sports competitions to presentations, institutional acts, and shows. The renovation has also allowed for the improvement of the lighting in the stands, through the installation of 24 new LED projectors.The lighting renovation works have been awarded to TECESA Acústica Visual S.L. and have involved an investment of 1,002,252 euros, VAT included.New sound system

Another of the renovations completed this month of September has been the renewal of the pavilion's sound system. Specifically, a new fixed sound system has been installed, adapted to the dimensions and characteristics of the venue, which improves the acoustic quality and ensures a more uniform distribution of sound in the different areas of the pavilion.The renovation of the sound system, awarded to NUNSYS S.A., has involved an investment of 67,852 euros, VAT included.The actions have also included the comprehensive renovation of the removable parquet court, an intervention that was carried out during 2025 and which was completed in October of the same year. It involved an investment of 90,306 euros and allowed for the improvement of safety conditions, sports performance, and the general quality of the facility.Renovation of the swimming pool lighting

The lighting modernization project has also been extended to the Son Moix swimming pool. The work was carried out between July 14 and 31, with the aim of minimizing the impact on facility users. The old system has been replaced by a new installation based on LED technology, which will allow for a reduction in energy consumption by more than 50% compared to the previous installation.This year, Son Moix turns 50, a milestone that coincides with an important process of renovation and modernization of the facilities, aimed at adapting the venue to current and future sporting needs.Authorities present

The event was presented by the mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, who was accompanied by the first deputy mayor and councilor for Sports, Javier Bonet. Furthermore, representatives from the five clubs that carry out their activities at the palace and compete in top-level national categories attended: Azul Marino Palma, Illes Balears Palma Futsal, Club Voley Palma, Fibwi Palma and Palmer Basket Mallorca.Also present were the president of the Football Federation of the Balearic Islands, Jordi Horrach; the president of the Basketball Federation of the Balearic Islands, Juanjo Talens; and the president of the Volleyball Federation of the Balearic Islands, Pep Mas. On behalf of the Municipal Sports Institute (IME), the manager, Miguel Ángel Bennàssar, also attended.

]]> A graphic example of what the expression ‘cringe’ means is to see your own institutional representatives walking the streets alongside far-right and neo-Nazi groups, in a demonstration where racist and hateful shouts are uttered, and where the preferred chant includes the expression ‘son of a bitch’, in this case directed at the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez. The President of the Government of the Balearic Islands, Marga Prohens, participated in a demonstration with these characteristics, and immediately afterwards she posted a funny tweet, because it explained another demonstration that had not happened. In the original version, President Prohens tweeted the following: “Ceuta is not alone. [Dramatic pause]. Thousands of us have taken to the streets to convey all our support to the people of Ceuta and to say loud and clear that Ceuta is not for negotiation and that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Spain are not for sale. [Dramatic pause]. We are all Ceuta”. The tweet did nothing more than reproduce the Partit Popular's talking points just as they had sent them from Madrid, which is the speech that President Prohens usually offers. This time, without translating it, or anything. Very well. It is a pity that reality has nothing to do with all of this. What is happening in Ceuta is a deep migratory, humanitarian, and political crisis, in which Spain's unity and territorial integrity have nothing to do with it, except for those who actually believe that the seventy thousand people who entered on July 30th and 31st from Morocco are an “invasion”. They must be Boabdil's troops, returning to reconquer Granada five hundred years later. What is happening in Ceuta, also, is a geopolitical conflict in which the main objective (of powers like Russia, Israel, or Trump's USA) is the destabilization of Europe, and in which the Spanish border is used to achieve it. The border and the Moroccan civilian population, with more than 140 dead and hundreds or thousands of people abandoned to their fate.The demonstration that President Prohens attended was not about any of that. It was a demonstration, by the way, in which the Police refrained from striking a single blow with a baton, despite the decidedly aggressive manners of many of the participants. The demonstration, in fact, should not be considered as such: the ‘demonstrations’ attended by the far right and neo-Nazis use one of the fundamental rights of democracy, which is the right to demonstrate, to make a public exhibition of brute force. An exercise in intimidation: shouts with insults, racist proclamations, and the demand to put an end to those considered “enemies of the fatherland” are nothing else. Fascism (which in Spain is cloaked in neo-Francoism) has always functioned in this way: seeking intimidation through hatred and brute force. The Popular Party no longer flirts or dallies with fascism, but has joined it definitively, has adopted its discourse as its own, and strives to whitewash and normalize it. President Prohens, as she has always done otherwise, obeys orders and, if she must let herself be photographed next to individuals with their arms raised in the Roman salute or next to individuals who exhibit the neo-Nazi imagery of groups like Plus Ultra, she does so. If anyone ever takes the trouble to remember Prohens' term (some idler with an interest in insignificant things will have to do it), these photos will look very bright in her biography.

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The mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, has invited citizens to participate in a demonstration in the Plaça de Cort on Wednesday, September 2, at 8:00 PM, coinciding with Ceuta Day, in solidarity with the autonomous city and to "defend the territorial integrity" of Spain. The same square that just a month ago "was saturated with events" and that prevented the outdoor dinner organized by Brunzzit from being held normally, has been denounced by Podem. The City Council has thus joined the call by the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces to gather in front of town halls as a show of solidarity with Ceuta. Martínez pointed out that "what is happening in Ceuta concerns everyone" and that it "must serve as a warning" to the Islands, as he highlighted in a video published on Instagram.

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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.

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The citizen platform Flipau amb Pere Garau has denounced the proliferation of abandoned cars in the neighborhood's streets and has criticized the "inaction" of the Palma City Council in the face of a situation that, it claims, degrades public space and further reduces the available parking spaces in one of the most densely populated areas of the city.

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9,000 homes in eight Strategic Residential Projects (PRE). These are the files that are already moving through Palma City Council and are going through the long process of obtaining a permit. This is the great commitment of the mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, which is still far from being a reality. Especially if the initial processing has to go through different controls, such as that of the General Directorate of Water Resources. Martínez and his team wanted at least "some cranes" building hundreds of homes within a year, as has been said in some PP meetings, convinced that it is necessary to show that action is being taken against the housing shortage.

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The Government introduced a last-minute legal modification to water regulations to exempt some urban development operations from the need to obtain authorization from the Directorate General of Water Resources. An additional provision of the Omnibus Law approved by the PP and Vox allows for the avoidance of new water sufficiency reports (water availability) in certain cases, provided that a specific plan or project is not considered to increase demand or that the circumstances justifying previous reports have not changed.

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The old Lluís Sitjar field will house a new sports complex with a capacity for up to 2,500 spectators, prepared to host different types of sporting and cultural events. The overall project, which includes the sports facilities, two parking areas with capacity for 650 vehicles, a green area, and the reorganization of the surrounding roads, will have a budget of approximately 44 million euros.

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Politicians must represent the people. This is such an obvious maxim that when public representatives ignore it, it is very disappointing. It turns out that the Government promoted a regulation that allows the largest developable lands in Palma, mainly in the hands of development companies, to build 45% more homes on the same plot than stipulated by the General Plan. In other words, where developable land owners could build 100 homes, they can now build 145 in the name of the housing crisis.

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The mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, considers that living in a building without minimum conditions like the old prison is a "personal decision" and not due to a situation of vulnerability. This is how he responded in an interview on the program Hoy por Hoy from Radio Mallorca (Cadena Ser), when the program's host pointed out that the people residing there have vulnerable profiles. "A personal decision has nothing to do with extreme vulnerability," he assured, visibly annoyed by the journalist's questions. "Vulnerability is assessed, and we function like all administrations, people, society," he added.

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MÉS per Palma has filed objections to the municipal plan for sustainable water management promoted by the PP government (with the support of VOX) because it considers it a document that jeopardizes citizens' right to access water. The City Council presented this plan in February of this year to address short- and long-term supply in a scenario where the viability of supplying the 46,000 new homes planned for the city in the next decade is questioned.

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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.

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MÉS per Palma has denounced this Friday the serious degradation of diversity and equality public policies promoted by the PP municipal government after the association Ben Amics announced the cancellation of the LGTBI+ Pride party in Palma due to the City Council's lack of planning and coordination. The party considers this situation to be the direct consequence of "the political apathy of Mayor Jaime Martínez and the systematic dismantling" of LGTBI+ policies promoted by the PP since the beginning of the legislature.

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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.

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The Palma City Council and the Local Police unions have reached an agreement that will allow progress in improving the organization of the force and the adaptation of their working conditions, after months of tension and protests. The pact, reached this Friday, incorporates a new bonus linked to driving emergency vehicles, with the aim of recognizing the special conditions and risk associated with this function. Additionally, a special dedication bonus is added, intended to reflect the sustained increase in workload in recent years.On the other hand, the City Council has committed to studying the inclusion of weekends and holidays within the specific bonus. Overall, the City Council estimates that the implementation of the plan will have an impact of 10 million euros and could mean increases of more than 2,500 euros gross per month in bonuses.The agreement comes after the force's latest demonstration, in which a hundred officers walked the streets of the city while Cort maintained that there was a "firm proposal". Over the last four months, the unions had intensified protests against the mayor, Jaime Martínez, for failing to meet the commitment to approve the plan by January 1st.Tension reached a peak with internal changes in the City Council, when Llorenç Bauzà took over Public Function, replacing Mercedes Celeste, and the direction of the Local Police. After an initial meeting with Bauzà, now as the highest responsible for the areas involved in developing the plan, the unions considered that the change of personnel had been futile. "The plan remains blocked," they declared.the unions considered that the change of personnel had been futile. "The plan remains blocked," they declared.

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It has been one of the questions the sector has asked itself since the Palma City Council announced its intention to bid for the title of European Capital of Culture: how will a title designed to attract more visitors to such a tourist city as Palma benefit the cultural fabric? And now the international experts who have evaluated the project have answered it: “It is clear that Palma is not looking to increase the volume of cultural programming or attract more visitors, as in both cases they have enough [...] and even understanding the local circumstances and needs, the jury wonders if the title of European Capital of Culture is the best platform to advance the city's aspirations.” This is how the report, made public this Monday, concludes, with which the committee, chaired by Tanja Mlaker, argues the decision to discard Palma from the candidates to obtain the title for the year 2031.

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A group of Son Reus volunteers has launched a public campaign to denounce the situation at Palma's animal shelter. They claim that the animals' conditions have severely deteriorated and demand the resignation of those responsible for the facility.

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One night like any other, Ariadna tucks her daughter into bed inside her home, a caravan. Every evening she faces the same uncertainty: how long can she live like this; when will the Administration recognize her right to officially exist where she lives? The girl is six years old and has been trying to register her address at her home for three years. Without success.

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The unions have publicly denounced the blocking of the Urban Development Plan at Palma City Hall following initial meetings with the new Councilor for Citizen Security and Public Service, Llorenç Bauzá. They explain that the situation "has been exposed" and the document will not be implemented immediately, as Mayor Jaime Martínez promised, because the Human Resources department refuses to sign the proposal.

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The census of the former Palma prison has risen to 226 residents after some errors were corrected, while the City Council is working against the clock to carry out the eviction of the building. This was explained by the Mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, at the press conference following the meeting of the Municipal Governing Board held this Wednesday, at which the revised count was approved. Most of these people have already been notified of the eviction, and the rest will be notified shortly. At the same time, the City Council is receiving and analyzing the appeals submitted by those affected.

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