It was not easy for Marga Prohens to find a substitute for Carlos Simarro in the Directorate General of Coasts and Littoral. There was little of the legislature left, and the PP had a somewhat complicated electoral commitment pending, because the main responsibilities for the coast are still state-owned: repairing the beach huts, the piers, and also other businesses within public domain. It was an electoral bet by Prohens, mainly in Formentera, and for this reason, a draft law on the littoral that seeks to avoid demolitions is very close to being approved. Maria Joanquina Ferrer has been a civil servant of the CAIB since 1996. She is a law graduate and, above all, honest: she has just reported an attempted bribery, precisely from a coastal business. At the time of this interview, the facts were not known.

"Healthcare [assistance] for people without legal residence represents 1%. We must attend to them for reasons of humanity and public health." This is how Prohens spoke in the Parliament plenary on Tuesday about what the attention to migrants means for the services of the Islands, who, despite residing in the Balearic Islands, have not yet regularized their administrative situation. The president had to respond to a question from Vox about the healthcare spending for the attention of people in an irregular situation, a pointless request, as Prohens herself made clear: "IB-Salut only has one budget and one accounting, and no items are distinguished based on where they come from." "A public representative should know this," she reproached the spokesperson for the far-right, Manuela Cañadas, who this Wednesday has accused the Government of opacity for not making non-existent data public. "Mrs. Prohens has decided that the money of all citizens is a state secret," criticized Cañadas.

The Government presented this Monday the Balearic Agency for Digitalization, Cybersecurity and Telecommunications, IB Digital, the autonomous body that will lead the digital transformation of the regional administration and place the Balearic Islands at "the technological forefront". The president of the regional executive, Marga Prohens, presided over the presentation event, at which she stressed that the creation of IB Digital represents "a decisive step towards building a 21st-century administration, more agile, more efficient, and citizen-centered". "It is the biggest technological revolution in the regional administration in the last 25 years", she remarked.

Marga Prohens' dances in the Dominican Republic have become the leitmotif of the latest debates in the Parliament. The opposition does not forgive her the bachata class she gave in mid-March during an institutional trip, during which she also met with the country's president, Luis Abinader. There are no documented precedents of Balearic presidents joining in Caribbean dances, a gesture that Prohens defended as a sign of "respect" for the hosts. But the archives do show the intense relationship that the governments of the Islands have maintained with Latin America. From Gabriel Cañellas' visit to Puerto Rico in 1992 to Francesc Antich's six-hour dinner with Fidel Castro in the year 2000, the presidents' foreign agenda has been busy.

The sale of the warehouse and the rustic land exploited by the founding company l'Esplet is now the last chapter in the disappearance of a benchmark in the Balearic countryside. At the beginning of the month, the company's closure and the dismissal of its 19 workers due to economic problems were made public. Now, two weeks later, the company is selling the warehouse and land for five million euros.

The apocalypse is approaching while the President of the Government, Marga Prohens, learns to dance bachata and someone in her cabinet, in a fit of inspiration, decides this is relevant enough information to share with the world. As could be expected, the PSIB reminded everyone of this throughout the six hours of the Parliament session on Tuesday. The Chamber increasingly resembles a stand-up comedy stage: everyone brings their prepared monologue, and if it goes well, the audience might even laugh for a while.

The Government has made public its first package of measures to mitigate the economic impact of the war in Iran. The president, Marga Prohens, has detailed that more than 160 million euros will be mobilized with the aim of protecting companies, safeguarding jobs, and preventing price increases from directly affecting the shopping basket of families in the Balearic Islands. The announcement was made after a meeting attended by the ministers of the affected areas, island and municipal representatives, and the main social agents.

Palma will have a new metro line connecting the Intermodal Station with Son Espases University Hospital in just ten minutes. The infrastructure, expected to be operational by 2033, will represent a significant expansion of the urban rail network and improve connections to several neighborhoods and key facilities in the city. The project envisions a route of approximately six kilometers, although only four will be newly constructed and entirely underground. The line will depart from the Intermodal Station and utilize the existing Jacint Verdaguer and Son Costa stations, extending with new stops at Son Hugo, Son Rossinyol, Son Espases, and Secar de la Real, before reaching Son Serra Perera.

The Prime Minister, Marga Prohens, has accused the Damm Group of deceiving the Administration and livestock farmers with the closure of the Agama factory in PalmaA leading figure in Mallorca's dairy industry. Furthermore, during the plenary session of the Balearic Islands Parliament, it was announced that the Government will revoke the declaration of regional interest which the multinational had requested and will demand the return ofa grant of more than one million euros"We will stand with the sector and support its initiatives to guarantee the continuity of the dairy industry," the president stressed.

The government of Pedro Sánchez has decided to take Law 3/2025 on the protection and management of the Valencian coast to the Constitutional Court. This law, like the one prepared by the central government, aims to create a framework to protect irregular buildings and economic activities within the public maritime-terrestrial domain. Bars, small restaurants, and shacks that violate the national Coastal Law are included in the register of constructions that the regulations consider to be of "cultural interest." under the pretext of protecting heritageAccording to the Valencian regional government, the objective of the regulation is "to guarantee legal certainty and the continuity of existing economic activities, including constructions that, without prejudice to compliance with sector-specific regulations, are considered to be of cultural interest." The government of Marga Prohens The standard has been finalized and is ready to be approved as a bill. and process it in Parliament, but sources within the Executive assure that this will not happen until after Easter.

The declassification of documents regarding the 23-F coup attempt served as an excuse for PP leaders to rush to demand the return of the former king to Spain. "It would be a collective failure as a country if Juan Carlos I were to end his days in exile," said the Prime Minister, Marga Prohens, shortly after Feijóo made the same statement. The revealed secrets of the coup have yielded little more than a few minor details and have confirmed what we already knew. The PP's attempt to exploit the head of state's correct actions—his duty—45 years ago to glorify him is a demagogic attempt to ignore why he chose to go to Abu Dhabi. Voluntarily. He didn't do it solely to save the Crown or his son's reign, but for the security of living in a country where he wouldn't have to pay a single euro in taxes.

The President of the Balearic Government, Marga Prohens, warned this Saturday that population growth threatens the "identity" of the Islands, an assertion she made during the Balearic Islands Day celebrations, an institutional event where the Ramon Llull Awards and the community's gold medal were presented. "We have watched with nostalgia as the appearance of our cities and towns changed. As we have doubled our population during this time, a population growth that we have embraced as a challenge we cannot ignore, a pattern of unsustainable growth. Unsustainable for our territory, for our identity, and also for our people." But, several paragraphs later, Prohens affirmed that "the Balearic way of being" remains unchanged: "Today we also celebrate, precisely, that there is something that does not change, that there is something that remains unaltered. (...) Our way of being."

The Balearic PP I like best is the uninhibited one, the one true to itself. The most fun was during Matas's time, when the streets smelled of Álvarez Gómez and we lived summers that sounded like Julio Iglesias songs. Now, with Vox displaying insolent arrogance, Prohens's PP is even woke At times. It fades. But when the Valencian Community's gold medals arrive, its chest swells, and it never disappoints. After practicing genuflections with Queen Sofía and awarding one of its own last year, this year grants it to Jaume AngladaThis is the PP I expect: the one that makes dramatic gestures, the one that thrives on emotional narratives, the one that would greet the award winner by forming hearts with their hands after heartfelt applause. Always consistent. Always pink.

When the Balearic PP regained power, it was clear that Catalan and education had to be left alone, because they didn't represent a problem and because José Ramón Bauzá's electoral catastrophe shouldn't be repeated. The fear stemmed from Vox's obsession with their own language and culture. And these fears were reasonable, given the far-right's history of attacks and Prohens's balancing act. However, there was another issue that threw the PP off balance upon taking office: the saturation and outcry over tourism and over-tourism.

The government will no longer implement any major measures to combat overcrowding until the end of its term. With only one summer remaining before the elections, President Marga Prohens, who just over a year ago promised "bold measures," is currently prioritizing other issues. This has been confirmed to ARA Baleares by sources within the regional government, who justify the decision by arguing that the current trend in tourism is towards less seasonality. However, the figures contradict this position: in 2025, the Balearic Islands received 19 million tourists, 1.2 million more than in 2023. Therefore, the "containment" of tourist flow that the government guaranteed for this term has not been achieved. The PP's about-face, when, spurred by citizen protests, it went from accusing the left of "tourism-phobia" to criticizing "overcrowding," ultimately proved ineffective. The debates on the Pact for Sustainability have not come to fruition and the Executive has not approved any of its flagship proposals: neither the increase in the Sustainable Tourism Tax (ITS, known as 'ecotax') nor the tax on rental vehicles.

Nearly 3,000 students from the Balearic Islands gathered this Friday at the Mallorca stadium, in Son Moix, to participate in the School Day of Non-violence and Peace.

Menorca is the Balearic island where Catalan is most widely spoken in the streets and where the most families choose it as the primary language of instruction in schools, but it is also where it is now most threatened by the government. The People's Party's (PP) strategic alliance with representatives expelled from Vox and the appointment of the former director of Sa Fundació, the organization that denies the unity of the Catalan language, as Minister of Culture have provoked a gradual struggle against standard Catalan. This is a decision that no one in Menorca had ever questioned, not even the People's Party.

Marga Prohens' third year in office beIt's a pre-campaign period. December has already set the tone for 2026 with the elections in Extremadura, on the one hand, and the MÉS congress for Mallorca, on the other, because the opposition is also preparing for the 2027 elections. The president has ruled out, for now, the possibility of bringing forward elections in the Balearic Islands, despite tensions with Vox's partners. But that scenario could change depending on the results of the elections in Aragon and Andalusia, which will serve to gauge the PP's chances. It will also depend on the needs of the party's national leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who is looking for the opportune moment to end the 'Sanchismo' (the influence of Pedro Sánchez) and is counting on the regional leaders as a weapon.