10 The Popular Party of the Balearic Islands by Marga Prohens seems to play at being a catch-all party, an Anglo-Saxon expression that can be translated as "party that collects everything." It is true that the PP has a proven tradition of collecting everything, but in this case it refers to a different context: the catch-all party, or a party that encompasses everything, is what presents itself as a transversal or consensus option, capable of bringing together voters of different ideologies who find a point of agreement in the proposals of these parties. Evidently, such finely tuned balances are difficult to achieve and easy to lose. Proposals or attempts to catch-all party In recent history, the most notable parties in Spain are Felipe González's PSOE and the PP, which was involved in the traffic between Aznar's first and second terms. In Catalonia, Jordi Pujol's Convergence was a great vote-gathering party (and the current PSC of Salvador Illa tends to imitate it). In the Balearic Islands, it was Gabriel Cañellas' PP. In recent Europe, this role has been played by Angela Merkel's CDU, or (at its best) the République En Marche Emmanuel Macron's. In any case, these are always parties—and leaders—capable of obtaining absolute majorities at the polls.

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