The President of the Government, Marga Prohens, defended this Tuesday the amendment that the PP incorporated into the Omnibus Law, and which will allow legal entities to acquire housing at a set pricelegal entities can acquire housing at a fixed price

The PSIB has joined MÉS per Mallorca and announced this Wednesday that it will vote in favor of the vehicle limitation law that will be debated next Friday at the Consell de Mallorca. In the press conference after the Spokespersons' Board, the deputy Amanda Fernández defended that the regulation "cannot wait any longer" and lamented that, given that the Council's initiative then has to be processed in Parliament, the limitation will not come into effect until the next legislature. next Friday at the Consell de Mallorca. In the press conference after the Spokespersons' Board, the deputy Amanda Fernández defended that the regulation "cannot wait any longer" and lamented that, given that the Council's initiative then has to be processed in Parliament, the limitation will not come into effect until the next legislature.

“We are in shock, amazing”. “It is very frustrating”. “Whatever we do in the Islands, the reality of the PSOE overwhelms us”. “It is a tsunami”. These are some of the reactions among socialist party officials from the Islands after two weeks of national headlines about alleged corruption in the PSOE. The storm at Ferraz has impacted the morale of the PSIB at a delicate moment: with Francina Armengol's leadership in doubt and Iago Negueruela in the midst of a strategy change in Parliament.

The outbreak of the case affecting José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the entry of the Civil Guard into the PSOE headquarters have shaken the PSIB and provoked the reaction of the right in the Balearic Islands. The President of the Government, Marga Prohens, considered that "the legislature has ended" after learning this news, in line with the PP's state position, which has called for elections to be brought forward. "Pedro Sánchez must return the voice to the citizens", she insisted.

The Parliament approved the Omnibus Law this Tuesday after an accident-prone process in Parliament that has put the left in a state of war and has even provoked complaints from the legal advisors. The norm began to be processed as a law for strategic projects but, in a plot twist, the PP modified its title to introduce about seventy of its own amendments on unrelated issues and, incidentally, to comply with the pacts with Vox pending officialization. The opposition in bloc has denounced the "chaos", but while MÉS per Mallorca and Més per Menorca have refused to participate, the PSIB has indeed agreed on some amendments with the PP on the taxi sector and the integration of the Tax Agency (ATIB). The legislative chaos continued until the last minute, when the deputies did not understand the voting blocks and the president of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, had to take a recess to clarify things and, finally, a roll-call vote had to be resorted to.

The corruption case affecting former Spanish president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has marked this Tuesday's plenary session of Parliament. After Alberto Núñez Feijóo's recent visit to Palma, who assured that "PSOE corruption is worse than the mafia", the Popular Party have rubbed salt in the wound in the session of control to the Government, while the deputy spokesperson of the PSIB, Marc Pons, has delved into the judicial cases open within the ranks of the regional PP.

MÉS per Mallorca and Més per Menorca have this Wednesday halted the PP, PSIB, and Vox's intention to process the omnibus law in the plenary session before the procedure completes all steps in parliamentary committee. "They are laughing at parliamentarism," lamented the eco-sovereignist leader, Lluís Apesteguia. "If the citizens saw how 'shabby' the Parliament is, they would put their hands on their heads," lamented the Menorcanist Josep Castells on his part.

The Parliament has called on the Government to prepare and publish the Report on the State of the Environment of the Balearic Islands before the end of 2026, thanks to the approval of a Non-Law Proposal (PNL) by the PSIB in the Commission for Territorial Planning, Housing, Mobility, the Sea, and the Water Cycle. Although Vox was the only party to vote against it, the PP has maneuvered to avoid carrying out the study, which is mandatory by law, during this legislature. The Popular Party has presented an amendment to remove the deadline for submission that was included in the first point and, as the PSIB rejected it, they abstained (the Popular Party did vote in favor of the other points of the initiative).

The PP has obtained the support of the majority of parliamentary groups to begin processing the Palma capital law in Parliament. But it has also had to correct the proposal of the mayor of Palma, the popular Jaime Martínez. The opposition pointed to an additional provision that allowed the elimination of the minimum reserve of official protection or limited-price housing in new urban developments, which will finally disappear from the text. This is what the mayor himself has committed to, who has defended the text in the hemicycle.

"Stop making a fool of yourself and deceiving. You, ideology and zero management": this is the accusation that the Minister of the Presidency, Antònia Maria Estarellas, launched at the PSIB deputy Omar Lamin during Tuesday's Parliament session. What kind of accusation is it to tell a politician they have ideology, when it is precisely the ideology of public representatives that determines a good part of citizens' lives? At this point, it is worth remembering what Slavoj Žižek says, who considers that the most dangerous ideology is precisely the one we pretend not to have. It is not an theoretical extravagance. Jürgen Habermas also warned that technical rationality —what we would call 'management' today— can impose values while presenting itself as neutral. And Thomas Piketty has been reminding us for years that behind many technical decisions lie very specific ideological choices about inequality. From this, an uncomfortable conclusion emerges: 'management' is often not the alternative to ideology, but its best disguise.

The PSIB strongly opposed the creation of a private university affiliated with CEU San Pablo in Mallorca. 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.

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 Universitat de Mallorca (UMAC), 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.

The PSIB-PSOE has questioned the data provided by the Consell de Mallorca on the removal of illegal ads on Airbnb and has accused its president, Llorenç Galmés, of exaggerating the figures.

Neither the lawyers' criticisms, nor the PSIB's opposition, nor the threat from MÉS 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.

President Marga Prohens has multiplied spending on institutional travel in relation to the last term of Francina Armengol. This is evident from the response the Government sent to various parliamentary questions from the PSIB. According to this data, the head of the Executive has made 25 trips this legislature, of which 14 have been outside the Islands, with an accumulated expense of 151,841.55 euros. Whereas in the previous legislature (marked by the pandemic and the mobility restrictions it entailed), Armengol made 33 trips, 12 outside the Islands, which cost 98,173.95 euros. According to the data that the PSIB made public in the last plenary session of the Parliament, the main difference between the two presidents is that Prohens travels with a much larger entourage.

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 Government's anti-crisis decree will be validated, presumably, in Parliament. The spokesperson for the socialist parliamentary group, Iago Negueruela, has assured that they will support the decree-law of measures to alleviate the impact of the war in Iran on the economy of the Islands, although he has requested that it incorporate direct social aid.

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.

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.