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.

The president of the Mallorcan Council, Llorenç Galmés, presided over the 2025 Honors and Distinctions presentation ceremony before nearly a thousand attendees. Galmés praised "the spirit of self-improvement of the Mallorcan people" and emphasized that the awardees are "tireless pioneers who have left a living legacy that endures."

If the People's Party (PP) of the Consell de Mallorca wants to obtain the support of the PSIB (Socialist Socialist Workers' Party) to push through the bill to limit rental cars on the island, "it will have to open a space for negotiation," warned the Socialist spokesperson in the island institution, Catalina Cladera. According to her, this space "has not yet been opened" and the PP has not discussed with the PSOE how to implement the limitation. As Cladera explained to ARA Baleares, the Consell's governing team and the technicians have met twice with all the parties they have representation in to "explain the technical criteria" of the regulation.

The PSIB of the Consell de Mallorca (Mallorca Council) denounced this Tuesday the "chaos" that, in its opinion, exists in the Department of Tourism and the "incompetence" of the minister who heads it, José Marcial Rodríguez. "He is incompetent and we are very concerned about his management of his department. The Consell has not done, nor does it intend to do, absolutely anything to combat mass tourism," stressed the Socialist spokesperson, Catalina Cladera.

The left of the Consell de Mallorca asks the president of the island institution, Llorenç Galmés, to take "brave and real" measures for limit rental cars on the island. At least, Vox believes that it is unacceptable in any way that the regulations require Spaniards to pay a fee to enter Mallorca by car. The different political positions leave the approval of one of Galmés's flagship measures in the Consell in high regard. However, the island president is not giving up and continues to negotiate the final proposal for the regulations with entities and companies in the sector, as well as with the parties represented in the Consell, with the aim of ensuring that "it is not only a proposal from one government team, but that it is applied in other legislatures," as Galmés hoped.

The PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) will present a motion at the plenary session of the Consell de Mallorca (Mallorca Council) to be held this Thursday, in which it will ask the island institution to commit "not to destroy Mallorca and not to lower the level of protection of the Tramuntana mountain range." This was explained by the Socialist spokesperson, Catalina Cladera, who has asked the president of the institution, Llorenç Galmés, to "remove the urban planning amnesty," referring to the Land Acquisition Law that the Government approved this week and which allows the legalization of illegal constructions in the Serra prior to 1991, the year in which the Law of Natural Spaces was approved.