The box office of the Principal theatre, both the physical one at the theatre itself and the virtual one at www.teatreprincipal.com, will reopen this Wednesday with the sale of season tickets for the 2026/2027 season. Starting Saturday the 5th, general tickets will also go on sale. Subscribers will have a few days' advantage to choose their preferred seats; furthermore, the first 50 subscribers who purchase their season ticket at the theatre's box office will receive a gift.

A worker died this Tuesday at the Tirme facilities, as reported by the CCOO union, which has requested that the circumstances of the incident be investigated, after high levels of carbon monoxide were detected. This is an employee from the night shift of the Ilunion company who, according to the information provided by the union organization, was found lifeless at 9:00 PM.

MÉS per Mallorca has registered a series of questions to the Consell de Mallorca to ascertain the degree of compliance with the Plan for Intervention in Tourist Areas (PIAT), approved six years ago, and has accused the island government of the PP of not applying the tools provided to contain tourist pressure.

The Mallorcan production Un passeig pel Born, directed by Mallorcan Nick Igea, has won the award for best European film at the Bretagne International Film Festival, in France. With this recognition, the film has accumulated 48 international awards obtained at festivals organized in cities such as Vienna, Sydney, London, Paris, Florence, New York, and Los Angeles.

The shipping companies have warned this Thursday that the future law to limit vehicles in Mallorca could shift some of the tourism that currently arrives by car towards air transport. The president of Baleària, Adolfo Utor, gave the example of the restrictions applied in Ibiza, where the arrival of tourist vehicles has fallen by 11% during the first half of 2026. As he warned, this limitation could end up favoring visitors arriving by plane. Nevertheless, he insisted that it will be necessary to measure to what extent the regulation is effective and what results it yields.

The Mallorcan Business Circle (CMN) and the Mare Mar Foundation have requested the Consell de Mallorca for the dismissal of the managing director of the Maritime Museum of Mallorca, Albert Forés. The two entities, promoters of the original Museum project, denounce a management marked by "paralysis", "inefficiency" and "alleged irregularities", while the institution defends that it complies with the Consortium's objectives and claims the work done in recent years.

The water crisis in Pla de Mallorca is entering a new chapter in terms of savings due to the lack of water resources in the region. The Algaida City Council yesterday approved a motion from the PSIB governing team, through which the plenary session requests the Consell de Mallorca to stop using water from the municipality's aquifers "with urgency" for the cleaning and maintenance tasks of the Manacor road (Ma-15). The motion was approved unanimously by all parties present in the plenary session, PSIB, PP, and MÉS per Algaida.

MÉS per Mallorca has accused Llorenç Galmés's government of "dismantling environmental guarantees" to facilitate the arrival of waste from Ibiza to Mallorca. The eco-sovereignist party maintains that the modification of the conditions initially foreseen for the transfer confirms that the Council is adapting the rules to the project's needs, instead of prioritizing the island's environmental interests.

The Consell de Mallorca does not find "any notable relevance" in the private use of the island institution's cars by the vice president of Vox, Pedro Bestard. To reach this conclusion, it has been necessary to wait weeks, until the two reports commissioned by president Llorenç Galmés were completed. The first was carried out by the Technical Secretariat of the Department of Environment and states that Bestard still keeps three cars for his exclusive use, that he lied about their signage and that he has made unjustified use of them unrelated to his position, in addition to keeping them to the detriment of the needs of the officials in his area. The second report was carried out by the General Secretariat and the Council's Intervention, and it is precisely this one that indicates that it cannot be deduced that the use of the cars is improper. This document is limited to recommending that an instruction be issued to regulate the use of Council vehicles.

Bestard has three cars for his exclusive use, while his department has 19 unused ones and suffers the consequences of an aging fleet that urgently needs renovation. This is one of the conclusions in the report by the Technical Secretariat of Environment of the insular institution, which highlights the inappropriate use of cars by Bestard, to which ARA Balears has had access. A Dacia Sandero (acquired at the end of 2023), a Ford Ranger (2024), and a Subaru Crosstrek (2026) are the three cars that the vice-president of the Consell de Mallorca has arrogated to himself, even though he can use an official car for his travel. In fact, the document points out that, in the case of the Dacia, only Bestard has the keys and that on one occasion he lost them (this incident involved an expense of 430 euros).

The Consell de Mallorca inaugurated this Friday the new Hunting Center of Mallorca, located on the Sa Mola Vella estate, in Son Macià, an facility intended to promote the practice of hunting and its role in land management. The opening coincided with World Environment Day.

The Supreme Court has admitted for processing the appeal by the Consell de Mallorca to demand the definitive removal of the bus-VAO lane on the Ma-19 highway. In the ruling, the high court orders the referral of the proceedings to the Fifth Section of the Supreme Court, which will be responsible for issuing the final judgment and determining whether the prior binding report from the body that owns a road is mandatory solely for the initial implementation of a bus-VAO lane, or if it is also a requirement for subsequent annual agreements that determine its maintenance or extension.

The president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, has called an extraordinary plenary session next Friday to approve the law regulating vehicle flow on the island. The Popular Party plans to approve the measure without Vox, which has strongly opposed it. For now, it already has the support of MÉS per Mallorca, which has given a "welcome" to the PP for a rule that the left had proposed. The PSIB has also shown itself in favour of the initiative, although it has not guaranteed its support until the text is analysed. Once it moves forward, the text must be sent to Parliament for it to be processed and given final approval.

The Consell de Mallorca upholds the Supreme Court (TS) ruling that annuls the state's single registry of tourist rentals, considering that the State lacks the competence to impose this regulation against existing autonomous systems.

The Museum of Mallorca received this Wednesday the portolan chart of Pere Rossell dated 1447, one of the most outstanding pieces of medieval Mallorcan cartography, which the Consell de Mallorca acquired in April from the Sotheby's auction house in London.

MÁS per Mallorca has this week kicked off various primary processes. In a month, the list leaders of the main candidacies will be proclaimed, but there are already some names appearing in the quinielas. Lluís Apesteguia will repeat as list leader for the Parlament. The mayor of Manacor, Miquel Oliver, is emerging as the option for the Consell de Mallorca, and among the options to replace him in the City Council, councilor Ferran Montero has gained strength. Palma is the big unknown: the leadership offered former minister Fina Santiago to be number one, but she has not accepted the proposal. As a B option, the name of professor David Pujol is being considered. But this has a handicap: there would be no woman among the prominent list leaders.

The socialist group of the Consell de Mallorca has accused the president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, of hiding the island institution's agreements with large vacation rental platforms, such as Airbnb. In a statement, the party assures that it has registered "multiple information requests" in this regard from both the Presidency and Tourism departments, without being able to access the documentation. Faced with this, the group will report the facts to the Council of Transparency of Spain, as it already did last week following the Consell's refusal to provide the agreement that enables the transfer of waste from Ibiza to be incinerated in Mallorca.

Pedro Bestard ordered that one of the new vehicles acquired by the Department of Environment of the Consell de Mallorca be reserved for him and that it not be labeled as an official car of the institution. "This car, reserve it for me," sources familiar with the matter confirm that Bestard said, who would be responsible for not labeling it.

"It is impossible to put an end to illegal tourist offerings." This is how forceful an inspector from the Consell de Mallorca, who wishes to remain anonymous, is in conversation with ARA Balears. She knows firsthand the work done by the 26 inspectors of this island institution, who monitor both regulated and unregulated offerings. According to this source's account, it is much easier to detect infringements by licensed owners than to penalize those who operate outside the system. "It's not easy at all to prove there's illegal offering," she points out: "They are very clever." In this regard, she warns that, although fines have been toughened, her perception is that "very many procedures expire.

The racism and the national priority criterion of Vox have played a trick on the Consell de Mallorca, which has approved the second package of social measures to mitigate the effects of the war in Iran. The requirement to prove five years of continuous residence in Mallorca demanded by the far-right has generated a paradox: if you are from Minorca, Ibiza, or Formentera and have been living in Mallorca for less than five years, you are not entitled to receive any aid from the island institution, no matter how vulnerable your situation; on the other hand, if you are an immigrant who has exceeded five years of residence, you can receive it. In summary: the criterion imposed by Vox will exclude people whom the far-right considers 'nationals' and will help others against whom Vox rails daily in the institutions of the Islands. The question at this point is: had Vox calculated the impact of this demand?