MÉS per Palma has proposed this Monday to limit the price of commercial rents in the city's stressed areas to protect local businesses and curb the replacement of traditional businesses by franchises and establishments exclusively oriented towards tourism. The proposal has been presented at the former Donya Àngela haberdashery, one of Palma's historic businesses, which the party has symbolically turned into a real estate agency to denounce how speculation is transforming the city and expelling both residents and traditional businesses. According to MÉS, the problem is not a lack of customers, but the continuous increase in commercial rents. "Many businesses don't close because the business isn't working. They close because, when the contract ends, the new rent is simply unaffordable," explained MÉS per Palma candidate David Pujol.The group warns that this process is causing an homogenization of Palma's commercial landscape. Neighborhood businesses are disappearing and are being replaced by franchises, large chains, or establishments geared towards tourist consumption, which impoverishes the identity of the neighborhoods and reduces the services intended for the resident population. For this reason, MÉS proposes to promote specific regulation of commercial rents in the most tense areas, with the aim of avoiding disproportionate price increases, facilitating the continuity of local businesses and preserving the commercial diversity of the city. "When speculation enters through the door, neighborhood commerce leaves through the window," summarized Pujol.The spokesperson for MÉS per Palma, Neus Truyol, recalled that the disappearance of traditional commerce is a direct consequence of the same model that expels residents from neighborhoods. MÉS also recalled that the General Plan promoted during the last term incorporated tools to preserve the commercial balance of the neighborhoods and limit the concentration of tourist uses, but that the Popular Party abandoned that model.For the ecosovereignist party, protecting local trade is a city policy comparable to housing regulation. "If we regulate residential rents so that people can continue living in their neighborhoods, we must also protect the businesses that make daily life possible. Without local trade, neighborhoods lose their identity and cease to be neighborhoods," concluded Pujol.

MÉS per Palma denounces that the Partit Popular government in Cort has decided to open the door to companies and investment funds being able to buy subsidized housing. This decision, in their opinion, turns protected housing into "a new business for large speculators and directly harms the citizens of Palma". As they detailed at a press conference, until now, this subsidized housing was reserved for families who needed a home to live in.

MÉS per Palma has attacked this Monday the reform promoted by the PP and Vox Government through the Omnibus Law, which plans to reduce by up to 80% the sanctions imposed for illegal tourist rental if owners incorporate the homes into certain public rental programs.

"We must progressively municipalize developable land to end speculation and ensure that housing becomes a right again." With this proposal, the candidate for mayor of MÉS per Palma, David Pujol, today called for a profound change in housing and urban planning policies to confront what he considers "the great challenge of our generation." According to Pujol, the housing crisis demands abandoning timid policies and decisively intervening in a market that, he denounces, "has turned a fundamental right into a business." "We must remove housing from market logic and make houses what they have always been: homes to live in".

It is the first time that an independent leads a list since MÉS per Mallorca was founded. David Pujol (Palma, 1980) will lead the MÉS per Palma candidacy in the municipal elections of 2027, with Xisca Mir as number two. He says these are tumultuous times and that precisely for this reason he is taking this step, in search of a broad left-wing front. However, he is also aware that he is racing against time and that the far-right wave is difficult to stop.

MÉS per Palma has accused the City Council of "imposing a gag" on residents after the removal of a campaign against noise that several associations had placed in some neighborhoods of the city.

The MÉS per Palma Primary Commission proclaimed this Tuesday the candidacy led by David Pujol and Xisca Mir to head the party's list in the 2027 Palma municipal elections. The primary process concluded on Monday, when the deadline for submitting candidacies ended, and Pujol and Mir's was the only one registered.

The Catalan teacher David Pujol and the party coordinator in Palma, Xisca Mir, have taken a step forward this Wednesday and have put themselves forward to lead the MÉS per Palma candidacy. At the doors of Cort, they announced that they will run as number one and two respectively in the party's primaries with a view to the upcoming municipal elections. "It is necessary to open a new stage that reactivates militancy," argued Pujol.

The PSOE of Palma will ask in the May plenary session for the censure of the Councilor of Culture for his management of Palma's candidacy as European Capital of Culture in 2031. Furthermore, the socialists will ask for the resignation of Gori Vicens Heredeia, the general director of Cultural Projects, and that all expenses related to the Palma 2031 candidacy be audited and made public in detail. For the deputy spokesperson of the socialists in Cort, Silvana González, “the failure of the Palma 2031 candidacy is the failure of a method and an electoral promise of the Popular Party government”.

MÉS per Palma has filed objections to the municipal plan for sustainable water management promoted by the PP government (with the support of VOX) because it considers it a document that jeopardizes citizens' right to access water. The City Council presented this plan in February of this year to address short- and long-term supply in a scenario where the viability of supplying the 46,000 new homes planned for the city in the next decade is questioned.

MÉS per Palma has denounced this Friday the serious degradation of diversity and equality public policies promoted by the PP municipal government after the association Ben Amics announced the cancellation of the LGTBI+ Pride party in Palma due to the City Council's lack of planning and coordination. The party considers this situation to be the direct consequence of "the political apathy of Mayor Jaime Martínez and the systematic dismantling" of LGTBI+ policies promoted by the PP since the beginning of the legislature.

Indignation and bewilderment among the devil groups of Palma after the City Council has limited to 11 the number of annual correfocs in the neighborhoods of the entire City. The measure, recently approved, represents a radical change from the previous situation, in which there was no limit and activities were managed according to the demand and organizational capacity of the neighborhoods and the groups.

MORE for Palma has denounced that more than 4,000 places in the city's summer sports camps are "blocked", a situation that, according to the sovereignist party, has left hundreds of families "abandoned to their fate" in the midst of family reconciliation planning.

MÁS por Palma has shown its deep concern about the possibility that Palma will be left without the celebration of Pride 2026, as denounced by Ben Amics this Friday, and has demanded accountability from the mayor of Palma. The party has expressed its support for Ben Amics in light of the possibility that Pride 2026 cannot be celebrated in Palma due to the Palma City Council's lack of response to the requests processed by the entity.

A group of workers from the Department of Social Welfare of the Palma City Council has denounced the "serious overload" suffered by the Citizen Atención Office (OAC), after having received "political instructions not to reinforce the service" in the face of the extraordinary regularization.

One night like any other, Ariadna tucks her daughter into bed inside her home, a caravan. Every evening she faces the same uncertainty: how long can she live like this; when will the Administration recognize her right to officially exist where she lives? The girl is six years old and has been trying to register her address at her home for three years. Without success.

MÁS per Palma accuses the City Council of a lack of transparency regarding the cost of Palma's failed bid to become European Capital of Culture 2031, asserting that expenses have already reached €98,000, exceeding the €80,000 announced by the Councilor for Culture, Javier Bonet. According to MÉS per Palma councilor Miquel Àngel Contreras, the party will submit a formal request for information to obtain a detailed breakdown of the project's associated costs. "There are public contracts, salaries, and other expenses that have not been included," he warned.

"The mayor of Palma will have to answer for any disasters that may follow." building in flood-prone areas"With this warning, Neus Truyol, spokesperson for MÉS per Palma in the Palma City Council, criticized the City Council's strategy on Thursday.eliminate prior authorization from the General Directorate of Water Resources of the Government to expedite the granting of building permits.

Geographer and social and cultural activist Xisca Mir Socías will head the new MÉS per Palma coordinating committee with the goal of regaining control of the Palma City Council. The party announced the change in leadership at its highest body at what it describes as a "critical" time for the city. According to a party statement, the new leadership is committed to building a governing alternative "from a left-wing, feminist, and environmentalist perspective" in response to the policies they claim are being promoted by the PP and Vox parties in Palma. The eco-sovereignists accuse these parties of implementing measures that "drive residents out of their neighborhoods," particularly due to rising housing prices and the transformation of the city into "a commodity for speculation." Mir argued that this new phase for the party must serve to "reclaim the city for its people." "Palma cannot continue to be a business for a few while the majority are evicted from their homes," she asserted.