The reproaches between the Government and the opposition have been the general tone in the last general policy debate of the legislature. After four and a half hours of bickering between parties without a break in the plenary session, the spokesperson for Més per Menorca, Josep Castells, added a relaxed tone to the equation. Castells delivered a voucher for a lobster stew for two people in Menorca to the president, Marga Prohens. With one condition: that she approves the limitation of vehicle entry to the island before the end of the mandate.

PSIB spokesperson Iago Negueruela has kicked off the second session of the general policy debate. After the president, Marga Prohens, announced new tax cuts to facilitate young people's access to housing, the socialist deemed these announcements insufficient and accused her of "wasting three and a half years for society". "She removes taxes for young people, but how much does a house cost? 400,000 euros", he criticized. "How much does a young person earn in these Islands? They cannot pay for a house, live in an apartment, or rent a room", he continued: "This is your track record".

The struggle between sectors favoring Vicenç Vidal and Carme Gomila to lead the Ara Més candidacy for Congress is intensifying. Although the woman from Manacor is the choice of the permanent executive of MÉS per Mallorca and has the support of Més per Menorca and Ara Eivissa, the cadres favoring the current Sumar-Més deputy in Congress are pushing for the MÉS per Mallorca assembly, where Vidal has the option to gather a good portion of the votes, to propose a candidate.

The speech that the President of the Government, Marga Prohens, gave this Tuesday in the last general policy debate of the legislature had one of its high points when Prohens announced that she would allocate funds from the Sustainable Tourism Tax (ITS) to build public housing, a measure that she herself repealed at the beginning of the legislature. This has been one of the points criticized by the left, which applauded and unsettled Prohens at the moment she announced it from the lectern of the plenary hall.

The Més per Menorca assembly has unanimously proclaimed Andreu Servera as the party's candidate for the Parliament of the Balearic Islands for the May 2027 regional elections. The candidacy, also composed of Emma Navarro and Víctor Ferrer, has received the support of 115 registered members.

"I have never had to vote for something different from what I believed." Josep Castells (Barcelona, 1970) made this reflection in September, when he announced that he would leave politics at the end of the term, after 12 years as a deputy for Més per Menorca in the Parliament. He acknowledges that maintaining coherence is a privilege in current times, when many politicians are subject to the discipline of state parties. And he also emphasizes that, despite everything he has experienced during these three terms, he still maintains the naivety of thinking that things can be changed, even if only a little.

The first plenary session after the calling of the general elections has turned into an open war between the right-wing bench and the left-wing bench over housing. The PSIB has signed up to Pedro Sánchez's plans, who has started the pre-campaign by approving 21 housing measures, and has brought a bill to request that the Islands be declared a stressed area and to force a pronouncement from the PP and Vox. But, furthermore, it has invited both socialist mayors and Pilar López, an evicted woman, and union representatives to Parliament to put pressure on the Government.

Housing has returned to be the center of the debate this Tuesday in Parliament. All left-wing parties have pressured the Government during the parliamentary session to demand rent price controls. According to IBAVI data that the Housing Ministry has provided in a written response to the PSIB, prices have gone from an average of 834 euros per month in 2022 to 1390 euros per month in 2025, a 66.7% increase in just three years.

MÉS per Mallorca and Més per Menorca, gathered under the umbrella of Ara Més, avoided answering this Monday whether they are willing to run again in the general elections hand in hand with the state-level left. In a joint press conference, Lluís Apesteguia (MÉS per Mallorca) and Josep Castells (Més per Menorca) warned that they will evaluate any formula "with a Balearic focus". "We will not participate in messes with a state-level focus", remarked Castells.

Andreu Servera Moll (Ciutadella, 1997), a graduate in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Pompeu Fabra University, has formalized his candidacy to be elected in primaries as a candidate for Més per Menorca to the Parliament. "In a world full of uncertainties and injustices, there are only two paths: indifference or involvement, and the three of us have chosen to get involved," said Servera as his first words to introduce himself.

The President of the Government, Marga Prohens, ruled out this Tuesday the possibility of limiting the purchase of second homes if it affects Balearic citizens. This position means de facto closing the door to one of the main measures proposed by the European Commission to address the housing crisis.

The President of the Government, Marga Prohens, joins the PP's state war against Pedro Sánchez. In a media briefing, she encouraged the citizens of the Balearic Islands to participate in the demonstration called for this Wednesday in support of Ceuta, and accused the Spanish government of "hiding information" about the massive entry of migrants into the autonomous city.

Joan Pons Torres, the gonella councilor of Culture, Education, Youth and Sport to the Council of Menorca from the PP who outside of politics promoted insular variants of Catalan against the standard, now driven by the Consell de Menorca, that Menorcan and the article 'salat' be declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Menorca (BICIM). He assures that “young people are already too influenced by central Catalan,” that “they say 'soc' and not, 'som'” and that attention must be paid to the statute, which defends the need to "promote our linguistic varieties". "Menorcan unites and identifies us and we cannot lose it," he adds.

The opposition as a whole has filed a request in Parliament for an urgent appearance by the Minister of the Sea and Water Cycle, Juan Manuel Lafuente, due to the "successive scandals" affecting his department. The PSIB, MÉS per Mallorca, Més per Menorca, and Unides Podem are demanding explanations especially following the dismissal of the Director General of Costs, María Joaquina Ferrer, and from the subsequent revelations of the former official about the alleged "political interference" by the minister in the reports and files of the General Directorate.

Amidst traffic jams, saturation, housing shortages, healthcare waiting lists, and the anticipation of a new record number of tourists, Parliament bid farewell to the political year on Tuesday with a squabble among deputies over holidays. Citizens' problems will not disappear and will await September, after three months without parliamentary activity, which does not mean that there isn't some absent-minded person who will work during this time. Even the vice-president of Vox of the Consell de Mallorca, Pedro Bestard, will be able to enjoy a quiet summer after the final decision that the PP and Vox have made on his case. Lest anyone forget, Bestard used three public vehicles exclusively, for both public and private matters, while his department (Environment) has about twenty unusable cars and officials suffer from the shortage.

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.

MÉS per Mallorca and Més per Menorca have confirmed this Tuesday that they will challenge the Omnibus Law before the Constitutional Court (TC) through an appeal for protection because they consider that it has been approved irregularly. The reason is that the norm includes amendments on issues that have nothing to do with the promotion of strategic projects, which was the initial object of the norm, to which even the name has ended up being modified through an amendment. The changes introduced mainly by the PP and Vox, although the PSIB has also agreed to several with the popular ones, affect about fifty laws. In parallel, MÉS per Mallorca will also present a second unconstitutionality appeal for the points they consider affect citizens' "rights".

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.

"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.

Left-wing MPs have found a way to undermine the ministers during government oversight sessions: they ask the questions they are obliged to answer (although they often do not) in a broad and expressly ambiguous way, to catch them off guard. "Can there be equality without equity?" was a question from the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) registered in the plenary session this Tuesday. "Is the cost of living bearable in our city?" asked MÁS (More for Change).