The Palma City Council definitively approved the municipal budget for 2026 this Monday in an extraordinary plenary session, with votes in favor from the PP and Vox parties and opposition from the other groups. The Councilor for Finance, Public Service, and Internal Affairs, Mercedes Celeste, defended the budget, stating that it "consolidates a political project initiated in 2024 for the transformation of the city" and fulfills both electoral commitments and the programmatic agreement signed with Vox at the beginning of the term. Celeste described the budget as "realistic, balanced, and responsible" and assured that it "guarantees the economic stability of the City Council," while continuing "the path of reducing the tax burden on families, the self-employed, and businesses." She highlighted that the budget includes the highest allocation ever earmarked for human resources, at 215 million euros.

The right wing has camped out at the headquarters in Maó's Biosphere Square and turned Menorca's main institution upside down. The far-right wing of the PP and the councilor expelled from Vox joined forces to achieve an arithmetic majority in the Consell and impose their policies. From the territorial model to the road model and, now, also to the identity model.

Deputy Sergio Rodríguez described Vox's language strategy thus: "If Catalan nationalism has taken 40 years to change things, we can too." Little by little, and with the complicity of the People's Party (PP), the party has been introducing its language agenda into the institutions of the Balearic Islands, sometimes breaking long-standing consensus. "We have made significant progress, but we still have work to do," a party source summarized.

Maite de Medrano, the climate change denier and anti-Catalan Countries councilor for the current Vox party, has sold her defecting but decisive vote to the People's Party (PP) to allow the Menorca Council's budget for next year to be approved again, despite being in the minority. Stripped of her fixed salary from the institution since her party expelled her in May for aligning itself with the dissenting faction, the architect, who boasted of being Vox's 505th member at the national level, has pledged her allegiance to the PP to implement some of the initiatives she says she has been proposing for two years. She now feels "free" to negotiate without being beholden to anyone and knows she holds the key to governability. So, without needing to present amendments or debate it in plenary session, the maverick councilor has guaranteed the budget's approval in exchange for the Popular Party's commitment to promote the use of Castilian Spanish, eliminate websites with the '.cat' domain, and schedule a Hispanic Heritage Week each year to promote Spanish nationalism around October 12th. She also pledges to strengthen the Menorcan language, which, she makes perfectly clear, "is not a historical, cultural, or political appendage of Catalan. The Catalan Countries do not exist. We are simply Menorcans, Balearic Islanders, and Spaniards." Quite a success for a councilor who, in 37 months in office, has barely presented four proposed agreements and who, moreover, was already expelled from the coalition government with the Popular Party with which she began her term. The president dismissed her in October 2023 after she had a falling out with her island director and was accused of harassment. But Adolfo Vilafranca is making a virtue of necessity and, after pretending he could negotiate a stability agreement with the left, has gone straight for De Medrano's support. At stake is the absolute majority, which the polls still deny him and which he needs at the end of each year to pass the budget. This same majority is also essential to promote significant changes to Menorca's model, such as the reform of the Island Territorial Plan (PTI), which is expected to be imminent. In this way, he broadens his support and opens himself up to an ideological sector closer to Vox, the same sector with which current councilor Joan Pons Torres aligned himself, who in 2023 declined to run on lists with other far-right parties in order to join the PP. A strategy that, according to some sources, the conservative party will follow in the 2027 elections.

The councilors of the Popular Party and Vox in Manacor have decided to abandon this Monday the extraordinary municipal plenary session of September, in a controversial gesture and amid cries of "Long live Spain" when the two councilors of the far-right group were leaving. In principle, the standoff had been organized by the Manacor PP as a protest against the government team's (Más-Izquierda, PSOE and AIPC) failure to comply with an agreement from the last plenary session. The spokesperson for the Popular Party, Maria Antònia Sans, to the traffic in the Plaça del Cós in Manacor, as approved during the last plenary session, felt that continuing was a waste of time, given the lack of commitment from the mayor, Miquel Oliver, in having the points approved. reopening of the Plaça del Cós, from Carrer de la Amargura and Plaça del Palau in the direction of Plaça de Ramon Llull, without forcing traffic to detour through Carrer de Artà. Manacor, Maria Antònia Sansó.

MÁS por Palma has denounced that the implementation of the new Urban Planning Law on Strategic Residential Projects promoted by the PP and Vox will mean the loss of 1,000 public housing units in Palma's urban development areas, "a flagrant cut in the right to housing that favors large real estate developers and weakens public action."