The Electoral Board has ordered the Government to remove from its official website some of the announcements that the president, Marga Prohens, made during the last general policy debate in Parliament, following a complaint by the PSIB. The socialists consider that these announcements violate electoral legislation, while the PP highlights that the Board has dismissed the request to open a sanctioning file against the president.

The Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, accused Marga Prohens' Government this Monday of an "unbearable hypocrisy" for demanding limits on the growth of the Balearic Islands' airports while, as he denounces, it does not reduce the supply of tourist accommodation. The statements come amidst the strong social opposition that has been provoked by the expansion project of Ibiza airport, promoted by Aena, a company 51% controlled by the State through ENAIRE, a public entity that depends precisely on the ministry directed by Puente.

President Marga Prohens claimed to have fulfilled “more than 97%” of her electoral program in the general policy debate just held. But during the plenary session, the opposition also reproached her for promises made both in this and in previous extraordinary plenary sessions. These were the five most prominent reproaches to the head of the Executive.

The President of the Government, Marga Prohens, began the legislative term with two serious structural problems: the housing emergency and tourism saturation. And she ends it with these two fronts on the table: there is no initiative that has served even to slow the escalation of housing prices, and the oil slick of saturation covers months that had not traditionally been high season, while the Balearic Islands continue to endure pressure in the summer that Prohens herself assured was not sustainable.

José Vicente Marí Bosó will repeat as head of the PP list for the Congress of Deputies for the Balearic Islands in the general elections on November 29th. The party has confirmed the designation of the president of the PP of Ibiza, who will once again lead the popular party's candidacy in the Balearic constituency.

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she would allocate funds from the Sustainable Tourism Tax (ITS) to build public housing, a measure that she herself repealed at the beginning of the legislature.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.

For a good part of society, housing is currently 'The Problem'. There are those who have lost their home, who are waiting to lose it, who do not know if they will lose it... The social outburst has surprised no one. In any case, what is surprising is that it has been a civic outburst. Unfortunately, for a good part of the politicians, housing is the star topic of the campaign, the weapon to throw in the rival's face, an empty word. Because the bricks of the building of this economic sector that we call politics are precisely that, words that the professionals of speeches have emptied of content: 'democracy', 'freedom', 'equality', 'rights', etc.

The President of the Government, Marga Prohens, has applauded the calling of early general elections on November 29th and has expressed her hope that the polls will put an end to a Spanish government that, as she has asserted, "has abandoned the Balearic Islands." "At last!", she wrote on her X account after the President of the state executive, Pedro Sánchez, announced the early election in an institutional declaration. "The countdown begins for change to reach Spain", she asserted.

The debate over the two royal housing decrees of the Spanish government has ended with a parliamentary defeat for the Spanish government and the possibility of a snap election on the table. But, as a knock-on effect, the clash in Madrid also puts the housing model of Marga Prohens' Government against the ropes. In line with the position set by Genoa, the president has refused to apply the declaration of a stressed zone in the Islands, which would allow her to limit rental prices. This week, she rejected it again while defending "small property owners," as social protests grow and the left prepares for a possible campaign focused on mobilizing voters for housing.

For three hours, the President of the Government, Margalida Prohens, and the representatives of GOB and Terraferida have addressed the outcry that has been heard on the streets this summer to demand limits on the model of land consumption and tourist saturation in the Balearic Islands. Prohens received the two environmental organizations this Tuesday afternoon at the Consolat de Mar, after months marked by massive social mobilizations.

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".

Psychologists Lynn Hasher, David Goldstein, and Thomas Toppino named the illusory truth effect in 1977. According to this cognitive bias, people tend to perceive information they have heard repeatedly as more true and reliable than information they receive for the first time. In other words, repetition is an effective tool of persuasion: it makes a message gain credibility through the act of hearing it. That said, I do not know if our politicians have ever studied the illusory truth effect, but they certainly master it to perfection, even if only intuitively.

The President of the Government, Marga Prohens, has expressed her congratulations to the writer Sebastià Alzamora, who has been awarded the National Poetry Prize.

After a summer marked by social mobilizations against the tourism model, GOB and Terraferida already have a date to personally convey their demands to the President of the Government, Margalida Prohens. The head of the Executive will receive the representatives of the environmental organizations on Tuesday, September 24, at 6 p.m.

The Balearic Islands are nearing the end of a summer that, thanks to climate change, is more of a thermal penance than a period of leisurely pleasure. Curiously, the last summer of the legislative term has served for the PP to close the circle: Marga Prohens the term began with massive protests against saturation, and it ends the same way. However, there is a difference, because in the summer of 2023 the police did not assault the protesters. The island society continues to await the report commissioned by the Spanish government delegate, Alfonso Rodriguez, who assured that he had given instructions to remain calm. Better not to think what would have happened if he hadn't given them.

Three weeks, this is the time that has passed since GOB requested a meeting with the President of the Government, Marga Prohens, and the President of the Council of Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, to know if they are willing to listen to the outcry of the 70,000 people who, according to the organizers' figures, demonstrated in Palma on July 26th against the perverse effects of saturation and touristification on the lives of residents. The meeting was requested just one day later, on July 27th, but the Executive has ignored the environmental organization's request. "We have not received a single response," assure GOB sources.

At the time when the Moon had already begun to eclipse the Sun, a pair of German posers were clashing shopping bags from the golden mile stores and four Jehovah's Witnesses were waiting in vain to proselytize. As if an exceptional astronomical phenomenon were not about to occur. On the way to the terraces of Es Baluard, a street vendor was placing, bored, his straw hats. "Do you have glasses?". He shook his head because he knew they were asking him for the eclipse ones. Already at the top of the museum, a foreign couple had decided to cut in half the only pair they had and their children were looking at the Sun with one eye and covering the other with a hand.