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.

New clash at the Parliament plenary session over the case of Maricarmen, the evicted woman who led the Spanish government to push for two housing decrees and who died in the hospital a week ago after being evicted from her home at 87 years old. The President of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne (Vox), rejected the PSIB's request to hold a minute of silence in her memory, claiming that there was no consensus among the groups to do so. What is curious, however, is that he did not even consult the groups before making this statement.

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.

"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.

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.

For the time being, Vox is leaning towards supporting the preliminary draft of the agrarian law that the Governing Council approved this Friday. Talks between this party and the PP had been stalled since June, but sources from the parliamentary group assure that an agreement in principle has been reached in the latest meeting. Santiago Abascal's party plans to approve the regulation in the Chamber, but will also present amendments to it "to improve the text," parliamentary group sources assure.

Parliament rejected this Thursday, with the votes of the PP and Vox, that the Director General of Social Dialogue of the Government, José Antonio Caldés, appear before the Chamber to explain the current status of the Pact for Sustainability.

Ana Rosa Abejón announced this Wednesday her candidacy for the Podemos primaries to head the party's list for the Balearic Parliament in the upcoming regional elections in May 2026. According to the party, her proposal is based on the idea that the Balearic Islands cannot continue to be governed "for the benefit of a few while more and more families have difficulty accessing housing, making ends meet, or building a life project."

The PP expects that the law to limit the entry of vehicles to Mallorca will be definitively approved in Parliament between October and November and that it will come into force during the next tourist season. This was announced this Tuesday by the spokesperson for the Popular Party in the Chamber, Sebastià Sagreras, in a press conference prior to this Wednesday's plenary session, in which the consideration of the legislative initiative will be debated. Furthermore, Sagreras reproached the opposition for demanding "degrowth" measures, while not having taken "any" during the two previous legislatures, when, as he stated, "illegal tourist rentals proliferated." The Popular leader announced that the president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, will defend the proposal in Parliament.

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.

The plenary session of the Constitutional Court (TC) has postponed its ruling on the appeal for protection filed by socialist deputies Mercedes Garrido and Pilar Costa following their expulsion from the plenary session of the Parliament on June 18, 2024, the session in which the President of the Chamber, Gabriel Le Senne, tore up a photograph of Aurora Picornell.

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.

A total of 151 personalities and 40 entities from the social, cultural, academic, and neighborhood spheres have expressed their support for the Popular Legislative Initiative (ILP) to create a supplement for pensions in the Balearic Islands that are lower than the Interprofessional Minimum Wage (SMI). For this reason, this Tuesday, dozens of members of the Coordinator for the Defense of Public Pensions, promoter of the legislative initiative in question, gathered at the gates of Parliament.

Around a hundred workers from the nursery schools, called by the CCOO, UGT, and STEI unions, have started a new day of strike this Tuesday with a protest in front of the Parliament. Various gatherings have taken place in recent weeks at the doors of the autonomous Chamber, which in this Tuesday's plenary session has once again debated the labor conflict caused in the 0-3 sector.

“We want Spain to continue being Spain, that our streets be Spain’s. Our society is built on the pillars of Greco-Roman culture and Christian tradition”. The person responsible for these words is Vox spokesperson, Manuela Cañadas. A radical far-right politician who attacks the feminist lobby, denies gender violence – if the male individual is Spanish – and who is concerned about women’s rights when it comes to the presence of the burqa and niqab in the streets of the Balearic Islands, which is nil. Vox presented a bill to ban these garments and had the support of the PP, which noted that it has advocated for years for the prohibition of full veils, so that no one doubts their consistency and thinks that the popular party is acting out of political opportunism.

The parliamentary session period closes after some tactical moves. The PP has maneuvered to stage a distancing from Vox. With the approval of the Omnibus Law, the popular party considers the debts of the budget pact settled and believes they no longer have to pay further tolls on sensitive issues, such as language. This was made clear with a decision that is a message in itself: approving the limitation of vehicles in Mallorca with the left-wing party in the Council without waiting for Vox, to send the text to Parliament the very next day. The decision caught the far-right off guard, and they ended up abstaining, seeing that otherwise, they would be alone in voting against it. The Government has warned that it will do the same with the agricultural law, the coastal law, and the budgets. But Vox is not losing its composure and interprets the PP's gestures in an electoral context. "They want to appear as moderate centrists now that the legislature is ending, but it's a lie," criticizes a Vox source.

It can be listed in any order, but the fact is that housing, saturation, and mobility are the major structural problems that the citizens of the Balearic Islands have been dragging since the beginning of the last legislature, that of the Pact. Governments, headlines, announcements, and press conferences have passed, but the difficulties have shown their resilience and public policies have not even been able to diminish them.

Politics has become a risky activity in Spain, a permanent race to sustain improbable majorities, a task more suited to acrobats and movie stuntmen. People who wouldn't suffer from vascular problems under any circumstances. Even in Andalusia, the PP's majority has not withstood the wear and tear. Anxiety and balancing acts: this is also the general situation in the Balearic Islands. Except in Ibiza. On the most turbulent island in the Mediterranean, as modern as it is feverish, politicians live in a beneficial oasis: it is the magic of absolute majority. There is one year left until the next local and regional elections (the last ones were on May 28, 2023) and not a leaf stirs on a tree here. Certainly, in recent weeks Aena has livened things up a bit with its delirious proposal to expand the airport. But hey! We know what we're about here; in a couple of days, no one will remember Aena and its megalomaniacal dreams – which I have no doubt will be executed to a high percentage. The season is starting, and we have to make money for the whole year.

The non-attached deputy Idoia Ribas has filed a formal complaint with the Spokespersons' Board against the President of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, whom she accuses of having “viof­lated her right to personal and non-delegable vote” during the vote on the Law for the acceleration of strategic projects held this Tuesday. In her statement, Ribas maintains that Le Senne decided to group 14 amendments “against her expressly stated will” and calls on the Spokespersons' Board to condemn the President of the Chamber's actions.

The culmination of the legislature with the Popular Party at the head of the Government has arrived one year before the elections with the approval of the Law for the acceleration of strategic projects by the Parliament this Tuesday. It is the last omnibus law that Marga Prohens will be able to push forward before the May 2027 elections. Precisely for this reason, the popular party, hand in hand with Vox, has taken the opportunity to modify about fifty laws, amid the opposition's complaints, even though the PSIB has also taken the opportunity to introduce amendments that have nothing to do with the reason for the initial decree-law.