The one who armed himself with the podcast of the MÉS per Mallorca deputy Ferran Rosa nit has left no one in the party or in the eco-sovereign orbit indifferent. This is good. It is true that in a mature party system, criticism should first be made internally. Also, however, the accident due to over-relaxation (because I would swear Rosa had no intention of causing trouble or offending) has been useful. It has highlighted that, as happens in families, there are things that are not talked about at the table, but no one has the courage to start the debate even though it is necessary.

The attack of sincerity by Ferran Rosa, Lluís Apesteguia's right-hand man, last week on a podcast has revolutionized MÉS per Mallorca. He has been heavily criticized for saying that not enough was done to curb tourism growth during the Pact and that the left "should have lost the 2019 elections", but Pedro Sánchez's early general election prevented it. This exercise in self-criticism was not a strategy by the deputy, but rather a slip-up. The relaxed format of the program L’hora de la sesta, the fact that he was among friends –political scientists Julián Claramunt and Pau Torres– and that he did not expect it to have many listeners made him lower his guard. But his words have had wide dissemination and have reopened old wounds in the party.

The deputy of MÉS per Mallorca Ferran Rosa read this Monday night the harsh letter he received from the mayor of Esporles, Josep Ferrà. In the text, the former leader forcefully reproaches him for his criticisms of the party and especially of the leadership of MÉS per Mallorca and the parliamentary group during the legislatures of the Pacte de Progrés. Rosa has refused to respond to the content of the letter. However, in statements to ARA Balears, he insisted that, although he did not intend to offend anyone, self-criticism is necessary. "We have to focus on questioning why, in a context where 80% of Mallorcans are in favor of MÉS's approaches such as tourist degrowth, affordable rental prices, and the repair of the language, there are people who do not vote or who vote for other parties," he explains.

The mayor of Esporles and MÉS spokesperson in Parliament, Josep Ferrà, has harshly criticized deputy Ferran Rosa in a letter sent to the party's militants. In the letter, which ARA Balears has accessed, he makes it clear that the eco-sovereigntist's statements on the podcast L'hora de la sesta, in which he said that MÉS did not "push hard enough for degrowth" and that "the PP is the one who has best understood why the left lost" the 2019 elections, have offended a sector of the party. "Only a comfortable political official could think of this," Ferrà snaps in the text, in which he criticizes Rosa for having questioned the party's action during the Pacte de Progrés "with a certain arrogance and relaxed on a sofa, and with an absence of coherent self-criticism from someone who held positions in the PSIB and Podem ministries at the end of the 2015-2019 Pact and throughout the 2019-2023 Pact".

MÉS per Mallorca has registered a series of questions to the Consell de Mallorca to ascertain the degree of compliance with the Plan for Intervention in Tourist Areas (PIAT), approved six years ago, and has accused the island government of the PP of not applying the tools provided to contain tourist pressure.

Harsh self-criticism from the MÉS per Mallorca deputy in Parliament, Ferran Rosa, towards previous Pact governments and especially towards Francina Armengol's last term. In a podcast –L'hora de la sesta– with political scientists Julián Claramunt and Pau Torres, the eco-sovereigntist assured that "MÉS per Mallorca should not have entered the Government in 2019" and that, during that term, not enough was done to curb mass tourism. "2019 and 2020 would have been the time to push for tourist decline, but Iago Negueruela [former Minister of Tourism] and Armengol were afraid, and MÉS per Mallorca did not push hard enough," he assured.

MÉS per Mallorca has registered an initiative in the Balearic Parliament for the Advisory Council of Civil Law of the Balearic Islands to promote a reform of the Compilation of Balearic Civil Law following the changes introduced by state legislation and, in this way, not to leave families of people with disabilities "helpless". As the party has reported, in 2021, the state government modified the regulations on the legal capacity of people with disabilities, eliminating the declaration of incapacity, a figure on which part of the regulation of Balearic Civil Law was based.

MÉS per Mallorca has organized a morning of meetings in Parliament to warm up for the upcoming elections. In this scenario, the general coordinator of MÉS per Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia, has argued that, faced with society's problems, "solutions that had never been on the table" will be necessary. And he has assured that "whoever wants to accompany" the party in this project "will be welcome." Thus, he has not ruled out a possible post-election alliance with Coalició per Mallorca, the party heir to El Pi, which has presented the journalist Pere Sánchez as a candidate. "For now, they do not have parliamentary representation, we will have to see after the elections", he said.

Ferran Montero Sitges, current councillor for Culture and Education, will be the next candidate for mayor of Manacor for MÉS-Esquerra, a party that thus becomes the first to publicly show its hand and make its face official for the May 2027 elections. Let's talk about it for a while.

MÉS per Mallorca has denounced this Saturday, coinciding with International LGTBI Pride Day, what it considers a "worrying and sustained setback" in public policies for the defense of the collective's rights in the Balearic Islands. The eco-sovereignist party has unfurled LGTBI flags on the facades of the Palma City Council, the Consell de Mallorca, and the Balearic Parliament as a symbolic act of protest against the management of the People's Party governments with the support of Vox.

MÉS per Mallorca has accused Llorenç Galmés's government of "dismantling environmental guarantees" to facilitate the arrival of waste from Ibiza to Mallorca. The eco-sovereignist party maintains that the modification of the conditions initially foreseen for the transfer confirms that the Council is adapting the rules to the project's needs, instead of prioritizing the island's environmental interests.

Drums of war are sounding in Mallorca's environmental sector. Marga Prohens' government, after a string of environmental deregulation and deregulation measures, has now dared to tackle one of the great symbols of Balearic environmentalism: Es Trenc.

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 statement by former Spanish president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero at the Audiencia Nacional has shaken the control session at the Congress of Deputies and the debate on an early election is once again hovering over Moncloa. After the Congress's Bureau rejected two texts from Junts and the PP requesting elections and the PP brought a similar non-legislative initiative to Parliament, the deputy spokesperson for the PSIB, Marc Pons, invited the PP to "present a motion of censure" if it is so clear that it is necessary to call elections. "These are the mechanisms that democracy has," he continued. Thus, he admitted that, if the situation were the reverse and the case affected the PP, this is what the socialist party would do, as, in fact, it already did in 2018 after the sentence in the Gürtel case, which affected the PP.

MÉS per Mallorca ratified this Saturday, in assembly and by acclamation, the candidacies that will head the party's electoral lists to the Parliament and the Consell de Mallorca in the May 2027 elections. Lluís Apesteguia and Maria Ramon will lead the autonomous candidacy, while Miquel Oliver and Marta Català will head the island list.

The coalition between island parties Ara Més (MÉS per Mallorca, Més per Menorca and Ara Eivissa) has managed to secure the support of a good part of the Spanish government's parliamentary partners so that they vote in favor of the airport co-management of the Balearic Islands in Congress. Representatives of the three parties presented the proposal, which was approved in the Balearic Parliament, this Wednesday in Congress.airport co-management of the Balearic Islands in Congress. Representatives of the three parties presented the proposal, which was approved in the Balearic Parliament, this Wednesday in Congress.

The first person to knock on Vicenç Vidal's office door at Congress was a deputy from EH Bildu, to offer him technical or legal assistance if he needed it. It was the first time in history that MÉS per Mallorca had representation in the Lower House. That summer of 2023, the deputy began to see the fruits of the efforts the party had made for years to stop being unknown in the State's sovereignist movement. Informally, the Basque left has become one of the most important supporters of the eco-sovereignists, beyond the pacts with ERC in the Balearic Islands and the strategic alliance with Sumar.

Floren Aoiz (Tafalla, 1966) is a historic militant, writer, and political analyst of the left abertzale. Currently, he is the head of the political relations with the State area of EH Bildu and serves as second secretary of the Sovereignist Forum, the network that brings together the foundations and think tanks of the different sovereignist and left-wing forces in the State. This week he participated in an event on plurinationality organized by the Darder Mascaró Foundations and the association La col·lectiva in Palma.