The Governing Council approved this Friday a spending ceiling of 7,160.88 million euros, 598 million euros more (+9.1%) than the current regional budgets and 1,213 million more in relation to the previous legislature. It is, once again, as pointed out by the Executive spokesperson, Antoni Costa, at the press conference following the Governing Council, the highest spending ceiling in the history of the Archipelago, a prior step to the preparation of the regional accounts. Regarding the parliamentary negotiation, Costa has assured that the Balearic Executive will not accept "red lines" or demands unrelated to budgetary matters in the negotiation of the spending ceiling and the 2027 regional accounts.

MÉS per Mallorca has based its argumentation in the general policy debate on a basic premise: "People are suffering because of your failure." Both MÉS per Mallorca have emphasized that the most important problems in the Balearic Islands have worsened this legislative term, both the housing emergency and tourist saturation. A situation aggravated by the rising cost of living, largely due to the war conflicts in Iran and Ukraine and the increase in fuel prices.

The President of the Government, Marga Prohens, began the legislative term with two serious structural problems: the housing emergency and tourism saturation. And she ends it with these two fronts on the table: there is no initiative that has served even to slow the escalation of housing prices, and the oil slick of saturation covers months that had not traditionally been high season, while the Balearic Islands continue to endure pressure in the summer that Prohens herself assured was not sustainable.

The Government control session at the Parliament plenary stopped being about control a long time ago; it does not just come from this legislature. Now it is a boxing ring, a battlefield, where the one who lands the strongest dialectical punch wins, only to later show on social media how witty these politicians are. The rules are lax: bad jokes, offensive pranks, absurd comments, and repetitions ad infinitum are admitted. In view of the state of things, it is a good time to recognize those citizens who listen to the Parliament plenary sessions – in person or via YouTube – with the hope of finding an example of constructive politics.

The environmental group GOB stated this Wednesday that the draft agrarian law being processed by the Government incentivizes real estate operations, "runs over" the territorial planning of each island, and intends to override basic environmental regulations, which it considers unconstitutional. Representatives from GOB Mallorca and Menorca and GEN-GOB Eivissa met this Wednesday with the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Natural Environment, Joan Simonet, to express their rejection of the draft agrarian law and present proposals "aimed at guaranteeing the economic viability of farming, strengthening the protection of agricultural land, and advancing towards a sustainable food production model rooted in the territory".

The First Vice President and Minister of Economy, Finance and Innovation of the Government, Antoni Costa, admitted this Wednesday "some delays" in aid to economic sectors to deal with the crisis derived from the war in Ukraine. Costa met with economic and social agents affected by the price increases caused by the war to analyze the situation and propose measures to contain energy costs, the EFE agency reported. Precisely this Wednesday, it became known that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose to 5.1% in the Balearic Islands in September, compared to the same month last year. This is seven tenths higher than in August, with prices chaining five consecutive months of increases in the Islands. Transport led the increase, with 7.7% more than in September 2025. Restaurants and accommodation services show a price increase of 6.8%. Costa has described the rise in prices in the Balearic Islands as "worrying".

"We invested 150,000 euros to transform mobile coverage antennas and satellite data into occupancy sensors at 150 beaches in the Balearic Islands. This data, together with that provided in real time by lifeguards and the history from previous years, has allowed for the generation of a predictive model within the beach application to have an approximation of the influx that there may be over the next six days." This is how the Vice President of the Government and Minister of Economy, Finance and Innovation, Antoni Costa, responded to the question from Més per Menorca deputy Joana Gomila regarding the 4 million euro investment in smart sensors that the Executive announced at Fitur in January 2026. That is to say, one of the methods that the Government has used to measure the influx at the beaches has been the count made by the lifeguards and the data from mobile coverage antennas.

The Government has approved the bases that will allow for the exceptional filling of job positions with people who do not have the required level of Catalan when there are not enough candidates who meet this requirement. The resolution of the Ministry of Labor, Public Function and Social Dialogue establishes the conditions for being able to resort to this procedure, provided for in the modification of the regulations on the requirement of Catalan language knowledge for access to the public service approved this year.

The Apima of the CEIP Mitjà de Mar in Portocristo, representing the families of the school, has filed a formal complaint with the Department of Education regarding the delay in the repair and replacement of the building's skylight, which was affected by the storms at the end of October last year and has since caused various safety and noise problems for both the students and the educational community.

The Government presented the Housing Observatory this Thursday, and a glance at its website is enough to verify the participation of Alquiler Seguro in this organization, where it collaborates through the foundation it established in 2019. The problem hidden behind this collaboration between Alquiler Seguro and the Government's Ministry of Housing is that the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs and Agenda 2030 sanctioned it in December 2025 with a fine of 3.6 million euros for making irregular charges to tenants following a complaint from the consumer federation Facua. The Spanish government dismissed the company's appeal and ratified the fine in April 2026. The ministry headed by Pablo Bustinduy determined that the company had committed six very serious infractions and one other serious one.

The Ministry of Housing, Territory and Mobility has decided to issue an unfavorable environmental impact statement for the PFV Sencelles Hive photovoltaic plant project. The resolution, signed by the Director General of Urban Harmonization and Environmental Assessment, definitively halts the installation of a large solar complex that intended to occupy, next to the Palma-Sineu road, twenty-one hectares of general rustic forest land in the municipality of Sencelles.

Three weeks, this is the time that has passed since GOB requested a meeting with the President of the Government, Marga Prohens, and the President of the Council of Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, to know if they are willing to listen to the outcry of the 70,000 people who, according to the organizers' figures, demonstrated in Palma on July 26th against the perverse effects of saturation and touristification on the lives of residents. The meeting was requested just one day later, on July 27th, but the Executive has ignored the environmental organization's request. "We have not received a single response," assure GOB sources.

At the beginning of the legislature, Marga Prohens's incoming Government boasted about having reduced expenditure on senior officials by one million euros. As the organizational chart had one less ministry than the previous Executive, spending fell from 8.42 million euros annually in Francina Armengol's term to 7.1 million euros annually with the PP. However, this situation has reversed, and in 2025 the Popular Party already exceeded the spending of the Pact Government: they spent 8,970,175.74 euros annually on senior officials and temporary staff (advisors and trusted personnel).

Maria Joaquina Ferrer is no longer the Director General of Costs and Littoral, but a good part of the team that worked with her does not seem willing to let her dismissal be read only in terms of a management crisis. Twenty-one officials from the agency have signed a letter addressed to the Minister of the Sea and the Water Cycle, Juan Manuel Lafuente, in which they express disagreement with the Government's decision and claim the way Ferrer has led the agency in recent months.

The educators of the nursery schools of the Balearic Islands grouped under the Xarxa 0-3, of which UGT, CCOO and STEI are part, are preparing the start of the school year with mobilizations with which they intend to continue advancing towards the salary equalization of all workers in the sector. This Monday they met in an assembly in which the union representatives conveyed the content of the meeting they held last week with the Minister of Education and Universities, Antoni Vera.

"Whoever goes to the beach in Formentera and wants to rent a sun lounger, doesn't have one." This is how the Vice President and Government Spokesperson, Antoni Costa, spoke about the situation on the island regarding the concession of sun loungers and umbrellas, which has led to the dismissal of the already former Director General of Coasts, Maria Joaquina Ferrer, this Friday after the Government Council meeting. The origin of this conflict dates back to May, when a resolution from the Directorate General of Coasts for temporary facilities for 2026-2029 denied authorization for 681 sun loungers and 339 umbrellas, provoking criticism from the Formentera Council towards the Government (Coasts did authorize 1,169 sun loungers and 589 umbrellas). The Vice President commented that this situation "had not occurred in Formentera in previous years" and stressed that "it has a very significant impact on public interest." "Whoever goes to the beach in Formentera and wants to rent a sun lounger, doesn't have one," he lamented.

The Ministry of Defence has confirmed to the Government that the Spanish army will be deployed in the Balearic Islands on the day of the eclipse and will form part of the security device that has been planned to control the influx of people. The Vice-President and spokesperson for the Executive, Antoni Costa, announced this Friday after the meeting of the Governing Council. However, he also acknowledged that the Executive has no estimate of the influx of people. "It is evident that it would be very considerable if there were no kind of restriction," he said without providing any approximate figure.

It has not been four months since the Government expressed its "pride and satisfaction" for the conduct of the Director General of Coasts, Maria Joaquina Ferrer, who reported an attempted bribery by a businessman from Mallorca. But the Executive has shifted from public recognition to the dismissal of Ferrer, who has not yet completed a year in office and who will now return to her position as a civil servant of the CAIB. The dismissal will be effective this Friday in the Governing Council.

The Minister of Tourism, Jaume Bauzà, referred this Wednesday to the complaint from GOB and Terraferida, who requested a meeting with the President of the Government, Marga Prohens, on July 27 and have not yet received any response. "Agendas are complicated," he pointed out at an event at the Can Sales library, in addition to stating that the entities will be attended to at some point, as reported by Europa Press.

The PSIB has requested this Wednesday that the Government open a columbarium in the Palma cemetery to house nearly 200 unidentified victims of Francoist repression, as well as other figures such as the siblings Aurora and Gabriel Picornell. The socialist spokesperson in Cort, Xisco Dalmau, has asked that the inauguration be accompanied by a recognition ceremony with the participation of memorialist entities. He also argued that this space should become a living center for study and research, open to both students and the general public.