Esteve Sureda, spokesperson for Vox in Manacor, leaves no one indifferent. Not even those in his own party. If two months ago the president of the Balearic Parliament, Gabriel LeSenne, chose Sureda as a guide to speak out against people and groups trying to make a living with businesses like barbershops and stores on certain city avenues, now it has been the spokesperson for the far-right party also in Parliament, Manuel Cañadas, who has traveled to Portocristo to speak face-to-face with Sureda.

One of the businessmen vying to manage several beaches in Palma has accumulated unpaid bills from municipalities where he previously held similar concessions, specifically in Calvià and Son Servera. However, Palma City Council maintains that there are no legal grounds to prevent him from obtaining a new concession, as the company that has submitted a bid is different from the one that operated in these municipalities. According to municipal spokesperson Mercedes Celeste, who confirmed the information after the Governing Board meeting, the City Council is aware of the published reports about the businessman and has consulted with the other affected municipalities. According to the information received, the company participating in the Palma tender is not the same one that managed the beaches in Calvià and Son Servera, even though both are reportedly linked to the same individual. The case came to light following a report published this Wednesday by [unclear - possibly "newspaper/newspaper/etc.]" Daily of MallorcaThis indicates that this businessman is vying for the concession to operate four of the five beaches up for tender in the municipality. In the case of Ciutat Jardí, he is the only applicant, which could increase his chances of winning the concession.

The Councilor for Fairs and Festivals of the Capdepera Town Hall, Joan Campins Melis (MÁS), has categorically denied physically or verbally assaulting any member of the Local Police on New Year's Eve, after some media outlets reported that two officers may have filed a complaint regarding a possible altercation with him. In a statement published on his social media profile, Campins maintains that his intervention was to try to control the situation after a fight broke out in Plaça del Sitjar, and that he alerted the officers to take action. According to his account, the police were positioned in an area with limited visibility and far from the most problematic locations, such as the restrooms and the bar, and their intervention occurred after the fight had already ended.

The slide that was being assembled these days in the Feixina Park Christmas Market It's now history. Workers have completed its dismantling after the controversy it generated, a decision publicly celebrated by the Barrio Cívico Neighborhood Association. "Improvised decisions made behind the backs of the citizens are unacceptable. To err is human, to forgive divine," they stated on social media, emphasizing that the Palma City Council "did not endorse an installation placed out of place."

Public entities attached to the Ministry of Education, Youth, Culture and Sports of the Consell de Menorca will no longer be able to publish on social media using non-normative "salty" articles. The association Fem-ho en Català, formed last year by former language volunteers in Menorca from the Platform for the Language, is on the verge of legally forcing the Ministry headed by the former director of the Joan Pons Torres Foundation to stop using the "salty" article in its social media posts.

The 1st Palma Variety Fair, which took place this weekend in the Pere Garau neighborhood, was a huge success in terms of participation and a variety of activities that received the support and joy of those attending. However, a serious logistical problem left many attendees without food and unable to enjoy the fair's key element: the variety.

The spokesperson for the Catalan government, Antoni Costa, stated this Friday that he has no information regarding the alleged misappropriation of public funds by Vox, as reported by the former parliamentary spokesperson for the far-right party, Idoia Ribas, but stressed that if it can be proven, it must be brought to court.

A taxi driver from Sóller has taken to social media to denounce the actions of a local police officer after being fined €200 while accompanying a wheelchair-bound passenger to her home. As he explains in a Facebook post, he stopped the adapted taxi to a disabled parking space near the taxi rank, as the area was occupied by other vehicles, and helped the woman for five minutes to accompany her to her home. When he returned, he was faced with the fine.

The controversy surrounding the Patron Saint, the neofesta organized by Palma City Council The demand for the festival, which will take place this Saturday, September 6th, continues to grow. Residents' associations in Palma have attacked the city council's organization for organizing this celebration, criticizing it as "not coming from the streets but from the city council's marketing department." "A 'high-definition' party with press conferences, logos, slogans, and a musical lineup that could be exactly the same as any other festival in Ibiza, Berlin, or Toronto," they stated in a statement.

The political crisis sparked by the Menorca Council's decision to defy UNESCO and the Ministry of Culture and push ahead with the construction of the Rafal Rubí viaduct, which the world's leading body for heritage protection was calling for its demolition, has now claimed its first victim.

The situation of the national police officers deployed to Mallorca from Valencia continues to generate controversy. The Jupol union has reported that several officers from the Police Intervention Unit (UIP), on secondment to Palma, were forced to pay up to 700 euros in advance to remain in a hotel, after the Ministry of the Interior only paid an advance for 11 of the 18 planned nights. According to the union, the lack of solutions from the administration has put the officers assigned to reinforce summer security in a critical situation, a situation they consider "shameful."

The Amic Horizonte Hotel in Palma, where the ten National Police officers who were transferred to Mallorca from Valencia were staying until Monday, did not evict them for being unable to pay for their stay, according to the hotel and the Jupol union. "It is absolutely false that any National Police officers have been evicted from our establishment. No officer has been evicted or forced to leave our facilities," the hotel explained in a statement, blaming Jupol for spreading the misinformation.