MÉS per Palma, MÉS per Mallorca, the Coppieters Foundation and the Darder-Mascaró Foundations presented this Wednesday the fourth edition of the Anti-Fascist Weekend, which this year will be held under the motto 'Building a democratic horizon. European proposals'. The sessions will take place on October 16th and 17th at La Col·lectiva in Palma, with debates and workshops to respond to the rise of the far-right and the reactionary wave in Europe.

The executive meeting of MÉS per Mallorca that took place this Tuesday evening concluded with more unknowns than certainties. The space has not yet decided who will lead its list for the November 29th elections to Congress, nor has it definitively closed its alliances. What is known is that negotiations remain deadlocked with Podem, whom the eco-sovereigntists wanted to integrate within the framework of a candidacy developed from the Islands that would bring together all parties to the left of the PSIB. The two parties have differences regarding who should lead this candidacy. According to consulted sources, the group led by Lucía Muñoz has proposed to Ara Més to alternate the deputy (they count on obtaining one, as happened in 2023) every two years.

Virgilio Moreno has been the latest municipal candidate confirmed in Mallorca, after having been elected this past week by unanimity by the socialist group of Inca to head the list for the 2027 municipal elections. Moreno has been the mayor of Inca since June 2015, nearly eleven and a half years ago. He was a candidate for the PSIB-PSOE in 2015, 2019, and 2023, and by heading the list for 2027, it will be the fourth time he has run.

The Council of Mallorca does not intend to back down and will maintain the new waste fee and the extraordinary payment of 41.4 million euros to Tirme despite the new questions raised by the opposition. The plenary session of the Council of Mallorca rejected this Thursday, with the votes of the PP and Vox, the motion with which the PSIB-PSOE demanded the withdrawal of the two files until the doubts raised by the control bodies regarding the concessionaire's accounts were clarified.

Esquerra Unida de les Balears (EUIB) has proposed to Ara Més, Podem, and Sumar to open a negotiation process to make a joint candidacy possible for the upcoming general elections on November 29th. The goal of the formation is to achieve a single ballot for the "transformative left" in the Balearic Islands that serves as "a tool to join forces, build a progressive majority, and have more capacity to transform the policies that affect the Archipelago."

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.

The rumor that was insistently circulating through the corridors of the municipal offices has finally been confirmed. 07500 has learned that the until-now mayor of Manacor, Miquel Oliver (Més-Esquerra), has decided to leave more than half a year before this term ends. He is doing so to prepare for the future elections as a candidate for the Council of Mallorca for MÉS and to clear the way for his successor, the until-now councilor for Education and Culture, Ferran Montero, who thus takes over a role that, in theory, was to take effect at the end of May if Més-Esquerra managed to revalidate the trust of the people of Manacor.

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.

The President of the Government, Marga Prohens, has not felt alluded to by the protests regarding the housing emergency situation in Palma and numerous points in the State. In the control session of the Executive, she has dodged the opposition's questions, insisting that evictions like that of Maricarmen Abascal, which was the spark for the citizen outburst, are the responsibility of the Spanish government. "It is not strange that those of the new 15-M shout 'Progressive, hypocritical, and rentier government'", she continued.

The Spanish government has responded to social protests over the eviction of Maricarmen Abascal and has announced the approval, this Tuesday, of a new housing decree. However, in the Islands, the left has pressured Marga Prohens' Executive because it is not applying the Housing Law that is already in force, which could help limit rental prices if areas were declared as stressed housing market zones. The Popular Party has always flatly refused, but the PSIB candidate, Rosario Sánchez, has insisted that the Government already has "tools to mitigate speculation," and MÉS per Mallorca has demanded that it "stop the bleeding" of housing by applying the regulations in force.

MÉS per Mallorca has revived an initiative that the PP and Vox struck down in Parliament in 2024, because it considers that the affordable housing proposal recently made by the European Commission gives it new relevance. It is a bill against housing speculation—which, if approved, will have to be submitted to Congress—whose star measure is the restriction on the purchase of properties by companies and legal entities, such as investment funds, commercial companies, and businesses. The ultimate goal of the regulation, which they will re-register with some modifications in the coming weeks, is for the housing market to prioritize its social function over financial return. The leader of the eco-sovereigntists, Lluís Apesteguia, argues that this proposal can have a legal basis, but the President of the Government, Marga Prohens, accused him of promoting the "expropriation" of homes. Is it possible to prohibit vulture funds from acquiring housing in the Islands?

The President of the Government, Marga Prohens, defended herself this Tuesday in the plenary session against accusations from the leader of MÉS per Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia, and the leader of Unides Podem, José María García, of favoring "speculation" in housing. The eco-sovereigntist demanded that the purchase of homes by legal entities—investment funds, commercial companies, and businesses—be prohibited and that tools be given to stressed municipalities to establish that purchased homes must be linked to being a habitual residence for a certain period. However, the president accused him of defending "expropriation".

MÉS per Palma has criticized the growth model planned for Son Sant Joan airport and denounced that the new DORA III, the document with which the State sets investments and planning for Aena's airports for the next five years, foresees that the Palma airport will exceed 35 million passengers in 2031, with an investment of more than 621 million euros. In parallel, MÉS per Mallorca has demanded this Monday that airport powers be transferred and has lashed out against Aena, whom it has described as a "colonial agent".

MÉS per Mallorca presented ten proposals this Friday to guarantee the availability and quality of water in Mallorca. The document includes a decalogue of "priority" commitments regarding water resources that cover measures at the regional, island, and municipal levels. The decalogue proposes restricting non-essential uses of drinking water in situations of pre-alert, alert, or drought emergency and establishing moratoriums or limitations on new private swimming pools in areas with water stress or overexploited aquifers. The measures include addressing climate change and drought and actions to guarantee public infrastructure and quality water in all municipalities, among others.

The opposition parties in the Council of Mallorca, the PSIB-PSOE and MÉS per Mallorca, harshly criticize the project for phase I of the second ring road made public this Wednesday. The Council of Mallorca announced in 2024 an initial project for phase I of the second ring road in Palma valued at 110 million euros. The president of the island institution, Llorenç Galmés, appeared this Wednesday accompanied by the president of the Government and the mayor of Palma to present the definitive project, which has been budgeted at 350 million euros.

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.

Over the weekend, "highest-level" calls were made to defend the bill for the airport co-management of the Islands. Conversations that, according to sources familiar with the negotiations, have succeeded in getting the Spanish government to withdraw its veto on the regulation being debated in the Congress of Deputies. But who picked up the phone? The sovereignists of MÉS or Francina Armengol? On this, there are contradictory versions.

The general coordinator of MÉS per Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia, launched the party's proposal on immigration this Tuesday. It involves demanding the application of article 32.18 of the Statute of Autonomy, which provides for the transfer of executive and management powers over immigration to the Government. With this position, the eco-sovereigntists are defining their profile on an issue that has already become one of the main public concerns according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE). "It is an obligation not to leave the debate on migration policies in the hands of the right and the far-right," he explained in a press conference.

The government will lift the veto on the processing of the airport co-management bill. Sources from the presidency of Congress confirm that Francina Armengol will remove from the Bureau's agenda the item where the report sent last Friday by the Ministry of the Presidency was to be debated. In the text, La Moncloa argued that the law could not be debated because, if the Balearic Government participated in the management of the airports, this would harm Aena's interests. Sources from SUMAR-MÉS explain that the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, in collaboration with the eco-sovereignist deputy Vicenç Vidal, have interceded on this issue throughout the weekend. Finally, Urtasun has reached an agreement in the Council of Ministers with the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, to withdraw this veto on the regulation.