The Council of Mallorca is now prepared for the rainy days approaching this autumn: the island institution has spent 4,999.72 euros on corporate umbrellas. The Presidency department explains that these gifts are mostly distributed to the elderly during the activities in which they participate, although the contract documentation does not specify the number of units acquired nor at which events they have been distributed.

Mallorca wants to set a limit on the entry of vehicles to the island and is seeking European endorsement for the regulation currently being processed by the Balearic Parliament. The president of the Council of Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, has presented the proposal this Wednesday to the Director of Tourism of the Directorate-General for Mobility of the European Commission, Mona Björklund, within the framework of the Connecting Europe Days conference taking place in Brussels.

Llorenç Galmés admits that Mallorca "has reached the limit and cannot grow anymore", but he will not modify the main territorial and tourist planning instruments that the Council has to curb this growth. This is the contradiction that GOB and Terraferida have pointed out after meeting this Thursday with the island president at the Royal Palace. The entities left with a clear conclusion: "The feeling is the same as we had with Marga Prohens".

The Council of Mallorca also began the term this Thursday with the first plenary session after the summer. Beyond the debates that were taking place inside the plenary hall of the Royal Palace, a curious image could be captured in front of the entrance portal to the headquarters of the island institution.

The Council of Mallorca presented this Thursday the program of events to celebrate the Mallorca Day, on September 12th. The institution led by Llorenç Galmés wants to take advantage of the anniversary to highlight the centenary of the song La Balanguera “to claim the identity and culture of the Mallorcan people”.

Less than nine months before the insular elections, Llorenç Galmés faces the last political year with the vehicle limitation pending in Parliament, decisions to be finalized on tourist places, and the Tirme contract questioned by Intervention, among others. The president of the Consell de Mallorca claims to have fulfilled more than 95% of the government agreements, while the opposition focuses on the issues that remain open.

The shipping companies have warned this Thursday that the future law to limit vehicles in Mallorca could shift some of the tourism that currently arrives by car towards air transport. The president of Baleària, Adolfo Utor, gave the example of the restrictions applied in Ibiza, where the arrival of tourist vehicles has fallen by 11% during the first half of 2026. As he warned, this limitation could end up favoring visitors arriving by plane. Nevertheless, he insisted that it will be necessary to measure to what extent the regulation is effective and what results it yields.

It has been circulating for years. And there are already many rulings, appeals, statements of facts, reports, and a large amount of official documentation. And it is not the first time we have encountered a complicated case because a public official clearly abuses their position.

MÉS per Mallorca has demanded this Thursday the urgent appearance of the president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, to explain what measures he intends to adopt following the conclusions of the internal reports on the use of official vehicles by the insular vice-president, Pedro Bestard, as disseminated by the party through a statement.

Llorenç Galmés has claimed in his speech the centrality of the Popular Party as the majority force in Mallorca, defining it as “the party that most resembles the people here” and that represents the social majority. At a moment he has described as decisive, one year before the regional, insular, and municipal elections, he has warned against any overconfidence despite the improvement in results compared to 2023. The insular president has appealed for internal unity and party mobilization to consolidate the territorial and organic growth achieved in recent years.

Llorenç Galmés has been re-elected president of the Popular Party of Mallorca with 99.8% of the votes during the insular congress held this weekend. Galmés, who was the sole candidate, thus consolidates his leadership at the head of the party with practically unanimous support.

In three years of legislature, the PP has only removed one institutional position for the results of its management: the island councilor for Tourism in Mallorca, Marcial Rodríguez. The reason? His inability to curb illegal tourist rentals and the political wear and tear this caused him. The President of the Government, Marga Prohens, entrusted the island councils with the fight against this activity, but in Mallorca the conflict has become chronic. The president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, has replaced the person responsible –now Guillem Ginard is in charge of the Ministry– and has pressured Airbnb to remove advertisements for unlicensed properties. But Galmés is heading towards the next elections with this stone still in his shoe.

The Consell de Mallorca has decided to halt, for the moment and for technical reasons, part of the aid package to confront the economic effects derived from the war in Iran. This involves 17.5 million euros that the government team had planned to incorporate into this year's budget through a credit modification charged to the surplus.

The Consell de Mallorca has decided to halt, for the moment and for technical reasons, part of the aid package to cope with the economic effects derived from the war in Iran. This amounts to 17.5 million euros that the government team had planned to incorporate into this year's budget through a credit modification charged to the remainder.

The president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, has announced the Plan Mallorca protects, endowed with 84 million euros, to face the economic and social impact of the war conflict in the Middle East, because "the island institution acts with responsibility, diligence and speed to protect the families, businesses and productive sector of Mallorca".

The president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, has taken advantage of the island institution's general policy debate to make the umpteenth announcement about the island's tourist capacity ceiling. This time, Galmés has once again announced that he will reduce the number of places, just two months after the insular Minister of Tourism, Guillem Ginard, indicated that they would not be cut because it was not an urgent measure. However, after three years of contradictory announcements, the Consell has not made any decision on the capacity ceiling beyond saying that it will do one thing or another. Currently, the ceiling in Mallorca is 430,000 tourist places.

Traffic jams on Palma's ring road, in the Genoa tunnel, and queues on Mallorca's main roads have become a common sight, especially during peak season. "Investing in Mallorca" was one of the major campaign promises of the President of the Council of Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés. Halfway through his term, Galmés proclaimed that his government had fulfilled "more than 80% of its roadmap." But this major campaign promise has yet to be delivered, and the countdown to the next elections has begun.

The Consell de Mallorca, together with representatives of MÉS por Mallorca, El Pi, Vox and the PP, have signed a joint initiative for to demand that the state government approve a new highway agreement which would allow investment of up to 350 million euros in the island's road infrastructure. The PSOE is the only group not participating in the request.

Traffic chaos is now part of daily life in Mallorca. And winter and summer are becoming increasingly indistinguishable. The deseasonalization that was so desired for years, along with the progressive purchase of properties by foreigners, has made the difference between high and low season increasingly insignificant: traffic jams are a recurring problem. According to data from the Consell de Mallorca (Mallorca Council), residents own more than 800,000 cars, while 380,000 arrive annually, primarily for tourism. There is a growing consensus on the need to limit vehicle access to Mallorca, as the Pitiusas Islands have done, and the People's Party (PP) in the Consell presented its proposal a year and a half ago. How is it possible that it has not yet been approved?

The Council of Mallorca has given initial approval to the island institution's budget for 2026 without the earmarked aid in the Balearic Cultural Association (OCB) and Youth for the Language, with votes in favor from the PP and Vox parties. At the beginning of the legislative term, the far right had already announced its intention to eliminate these subsidies for organizations that fight for the protection and promotion of Catalan, and in the third year of its term, it has succeeded.