10 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.

]]> Simplifying the administration not only sounds good, it's essential. In nearly five decades of democracy, a regulatory mess has emerged that is as overwhelming as it is desperate. Just look at how processing a grant requires an absurd amount of documentation, including some certificates issued by the very administration that requests them.

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