The Council of Mallorca does not intend to back down and will maintain the new waste fee and the extraordinary payment of 41.4 million euros to Tirme despite the new questions raised by the opposition. The plenary session of the Council of Mallorca rejected this Thursday, with the votes of the PP and Vox, the motion with which the PSIB-PSOE demanded the withdrawal of the two files until the doubts raised by the control bodies regarding the concessionaire's accounts were clarified.

The general elections on November 29th burst into the plenary session of the Council of Mallorca this Thursday. The national political debate permeated two initiatives that, in principle, had a marked island character: the allocation of 1.8 million euros for the Majorcan Solidarity Fund and the creation of a commission to demand the return of the Costitx bulls. Both were approved, but they served to bring to light the differences between the PP and Vox, partners in government at the island institution.

The Council of Mallorca will commission new legal reports and a new "more powerful and extensive" audit before making any decision regarding the current concession with Tirme for the treatment of urban solid waste. This was explained by the island's Minister of Finance, Llorenç Bosch, during the first plenary session of the Council of Mallorca.

The far-right left the Mallorca Council plenary session during the minute of silence for Palestine proposed by PSIB councilor Silvia Alonso during her control question. It should be recalled that Vox rejected the Socialist group's proposal to hold a minute of silence "in memory of the victims of the genocide being committed in Gaza by Israel," as explained by the PSIB in a statement.

The Mallorcan Council repeatedly fined the company Malla Publicidad for placing billboards in areas where the Highway Law did not permit them, according to sources from the PSIB (Spanish Association of Public Administrations) told ARA Baleares. However, when the Administrative Simplification Law was amended, the meaning of the concept of "crossing" contemplated in the regulations was also changed, the same sources point out. Article 36 of the Highway Law established that billboards could not be installed alongside roads and could only be placed in urban crossroads, and only on urban land. Furthermore, the installation of such billboards on rural land was completely prohibited.

The Socialist Workers' Party (PSIB) proposed creating an island land pool in Mallorca so that municipalities can build social housing (VPO) and also proposed lowering the limit of 400,000 tourist accommodation spaces and implementing low-emission zones (LEZs) in the island's large municipalities. These are some of the 237 resolution proposals the Socialists have presented for debate at the July plenary session of the island institution to reverse "two years of inaction by the PP and Vox."

Jaume Alzamora, the current spokesperson for MÁS por Mallorca in the Consell (Mallorca Council), officially resigned from all institutional and organizational positions he held within the party this Thursday, thus ending a 15-year political career.