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    <title><![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - PP and Vox]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Prohens' last (failed) attempt to distance himself from Vox]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/prohens-last-failed-attempt-to-distance-himself-from-vox_1_5767692.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/66e7ab09-5379-4c14-8758-67ac3232f76f_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The parliamentary session period closes after some tactical moves. The PP has maneuvered to stage a distancing from Vox. With the approval of the Omnibus Law, the popular party considers the debts of the budget pact settled and believes they no longer have to pay further tolls on sensitive issues, such as language. This was made clear with a decision that is a message in itself: approving the limitation of vehicles in Mallorca with the left-wing party in the Council without waiting for Vox, to send the text to Parliament the very next day. The decision caught the far-right off guard, and they ended up abstaining, seeing that otherwise, they would be alone in voting against it. The Government has warned that it will do the same with the agricultural law, the coastal law, and the budgets. But Vox is not losing its composure and interprets the PP's gestures in an electoral context. "They want to appear as moderate centrists now that the legislature is ending, but it's a lie," criticizes a Vox source.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:56:28 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Manuela Cañadas addresses Marga Prohens in the plenary session of Tuesday, June 9, in the Parliament.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The PP takes advantage of the last moments of the parliamentary course to close the pending loose ends of the agreement with its partner and seek support from the left]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[The opposition accuses the PP of buying Vox's agenda in the Marratxí budgets]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/the-opposition-accuses-the-pp-of-buying-vox-s-agenda-in-the-marratxi-budgets_1_5762891.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/ed71bc87-cc22-4a2f-a762-837fdc7b8ccf_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Marratxí's budgets for 2026, approved this week with the votes of the PP and Vox, have opened a new political front in the municipality. The accounts amount to 42.6 million euros, 8.39% more than last year, and incorporate some of the main demands of the far-right party, which has provoked criticism from the opposition.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:43:03 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Plenary of the Marratxí town hall.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[MÉS and PSIB criticize that the 2026 accounts incorporate far-right demands, such as the withdrawal of the Catalan requirement for certain municipal positions and question their economic viability]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[The dark temptation of the Tramuntana mountain range]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>The Consell de Mallorca (PP and Vox), presided over by the unflappable Llorenç Galmés, has presented its draft bill for the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range, based entirely on the concept of 'administrative simplification'. 'Administrative simplification' is the idea most frequently championed by the two coalition partners, the PP and Vox, and they have pushed through a significant amount of legislation around it: first, the Simplification Decree; then, the law of the same name with its urban planning amnesty (and the green light for building in flood-prone areas); followed by the Sánchez-era housing law. These are the flagship laws of this legislative term, always guided, of course, by the spirit of administrative simplification.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sebastià Alzamora]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:30:30 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Cort definitively approves the 2026 budget with the votes of the PP and Vox]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/cort-definitively-approves-the-2026-budget-with-the-votes-of-the-pp-and-vox_1_5599606.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/42741939-7d38-411f-98c1-4f08455a64da_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>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.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:43:15 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The plenary session of the Palma City Council]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The municipal accounts were approved in an extraordinary plenary session despite opposition.]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[The right wing is carrying out its offensive against Catalan in the Menorca Council]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/the-right-wing-is-carrying-out-its-offensive-against-catalan-in-the-menorca-council_1_5598426.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/a9ab00f8-8461-4d91-b59f-74adcdc8bcb8_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>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.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[David Marquès]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:38:55 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Joan Pons Torres, this Monday in the plenary session of the Consell de Menorca]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The PP agrees with the councilor expelled by Vox on a new regulation that introduces Castilian Spanish and prioritizes Menorcan.]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[All of Vox's victories against Catalan in the Islands]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/all-of-vox-s-victories-against-catalan-in-the-islands_130_5598374.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/b5a58a14-adaa-4a22-ba71-24555313e00a_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>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.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:08:09 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The Speaker of Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, has made several attempts against the unity of the Catalan language in the Chamber.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Santiago Abascal's party is taking steps, with the complicity of the PP, to give Castilian Spanish a greater institutional presence at the expense of the local language.]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Long live Hispanic culture!]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/opinion/the-pp-is-selling-menorca-to-vox_129_5584359.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/7c42e336-f356-43d3-a591-93f7e8653310_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>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. </p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[David Marquès]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:34:26 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Menorca Council]]></media:title>
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      <title><![CDATA[The People's Party (PP) and Vox left the Manacor municipal plenary session with shouts of "Long live Spain!"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/society/the-people-s-party-pp-and-vox-left-the-manacor-municipal-plenary-session-with-shouts-of-long-live-spain_1_5505953.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/d86230b6-0040-46e8-b08a-e139a0f279db_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>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 "<em>Long live Spain</em>" 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.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sebastià Vanrell]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 23 Sep 2025 07:41:59 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The People's Party and Vox leave the Manacor City Council plenary session.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Mayor Miquel Oliver delivered a clear message: "The plenary session is everyone's home. Abandoning it is turning your back on the people."]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Palma will lose 1,000 public housing units due to the new urban planning law of the PP and Vox.]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/palma-will-request-1-000-public-housing-units-under-the-new-urban-planning-law-of-the-pp-and-vox_1_5457059.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/4f9fbe08-d4fc-49f6-8aa5-c05e25f144d5_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>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."</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:24:49 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Aerial view of Palma]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[MÁS por Palma has denounced the consequences of the new regulations and demanded their repeal.]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Equivocal Ecuador]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>President Marga Prohens and her executive can congratulate themselves on reaching the midpoint of the legislative session having approved two consecutive budget laws: no easy feat in times of speculative politics. Speculative politics, to put it bluntly, works the same as land and housing speculation: prices are inflated to create a bubble that bears no relation to reality, and which benefits a few while harming the general interest. When politics isn't speculative, approving budgets is usually done through parliamentary debates that can be intense but also measured: everyone (including the opposition) understands that the government needs a budget to govern, and therefore strives for its approval to be relatively smooth. Doing otherwise is understood (used to be understood) as a form of obstructionism.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sebastià Alzamora]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:46:01 +0000]]></pubDate>
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