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    <title><![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - General Policy Debate]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Five unfulfilled promises of Prohens in the general policy debates]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/five-unfulfilled-promises-of-prohens-in-the-general-policy-debates_1_5890161.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/4e075404-5ac7-4e55-9c74-b99f808b4ef9_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>President Marga Prohens claimed to have fulfilled “more than 97%” of her electoral program in the general policy debate just held. But during the plenary session, the opposition also reproached her for promises made both in this and in previous extraordinary plenary sessions. These were the five most prominent reproaches to the head of the Executive.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:03:05 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The plenary session of the Parliament listens to the intervention of the president Marga Prohens during the general policy debate.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The opposition and also Vox pointed out pending homework in the balance of the legislature]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Apesteguia charges against Prohens: "People suffer because of her failure"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/mes-mallorca-people-are-suffering-because-of-your-failure_1_5885817.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/b9af3db0-6849-46bc-8844-b65b718cd7a5_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>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.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Llull]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:35:48 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The spokesperson for MÉS per Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia, during the general policy debate.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The eco-sovereigntist party demands a specific VAT and minimum wage for the Balearic Islands]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Iago Negueruela, Prohens: "Lower taxes for young people, but a house is worth 400,000 euros"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/negueruela-to-prohens-remove-taxes-for-young-people-but-house-is-worth-400-000-euros_1_5885585.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/32501007-7ce0-45a2-8e07-7fac5f93ab01_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>PSIB spokesperson Iago Negueruela has kicked off the second session of the general policy debate. After the president, Marga Prohens, <a href="https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/prohens-announces-the-suppression-of-all-regional-taxes-housing-for-young-people_1_5884639.html" target="_blank">announced new tax cuts to facilitate young people's access to housing</a>, the socialist deemed these announcements insufficient and accused her of "wasting three and a half years for society". "She removes taxes for young people, but how much does a house cost? 400,000 euros", he criticized. "How much does a young person earn in these Islands? They cannot pay for a house, live in an apartment, or rent a room", he continued: "This is your track record".</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:42:08 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Iago Negueruela]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The socialist accuses the president of having "lost credibility" regarding tourism in the second session of the general policy debate]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Prohens shields herself with tax cuts in the face of the lack of major reforms]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/prohens-shields-herself-with-tax-cuts-in-the-face-of-the-lack-of-major-reforms_1_5885319.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/56ea8c70-fe90-4db2-b702-1347bcab1f27_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>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.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Llull]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:41:43 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The president of the Government, Marga Prohens]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The president announces at the general policy debate a housing plan that would be developed the next legislative term]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[The opposition, regarding Prohens' announcement to allocate ITS funds to public housing: "It was she who repealed it"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/the-opposition-regarding-prohens-announcement-to-allocate-its-funds-to-public-housing-it-was-she-who-repealed-it_1_5884731.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/3069f97e-d5c3-4d9f-9564-c6ca6efac264_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The speech that the President of the Government, Marga Prohens, gave this Tuesday in the last general policy debate of the legislature had one of its high points when Prohens announced that she would allocate funds from the Sustainable Tourism Tax (ITS) to build public housing, a measure that she herself repealed at the beginning of the legislature. This has been one of the points criticized by the left, which applauded and unsettled Prohens at the moment she announced it from the lectern of the plenary hall.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Llull]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:32:32 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Intervention of Marga Prohens during this Tuesday's General Policy Debate.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The left charges against the president and describes the general policy debate speech as "empty", "lacking credibility" and from "Yupi's world"]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Prohens calls for October 20 the general policy debate]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/prohens-calls-for-october-20-the-general-policy-debate_1_5877577.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/87b26e58-a841-4148-a6b8-68a0b17f27c1_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Work is piling up for the parliamentary groups for next week. The President of the Government, Marga Prohens, presented a document this Tuesday to the Parliament in which she proposes October 20th as the date for the general policy debate. It will be the last of the legislature in which the President will report on her Government's actions and it will foreseeably be framed in electoral terms.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:37:48 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Marga Prohens.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The president has registered a document in Parliament in which she requests that the session be convened on this date]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[It's the economy, stupid! (Not demographics)]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/opinion/it-s-the-economy-stupid-not-demographics_129_5535333.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/78da9a49-201d-492d-9a06-37eb6c34188f_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>In the debate on the state of the region, the president recently placed the demographic issue at the center of the political debate. Population growth—in practice, a subterfuge to avoid directly addressing immigration—has become the center of the debate because part of the political class specializes in creating new problems instead of providing effective solutions to existing ones. In fact, I'll just remind you that just a month ago, the regional government was exposed when the Civil Society Forum revealed the data from the survey by the same government's Tourism Strategy Agency, which indicated that what really bothers a large part of the citizenry is the number of tourists we have.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[David Abril]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:30:58 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Patera abandoned on the coast of Mallorca.]]></media:title>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Formentor peak]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/opinion/the-formentor-peak_129_5524831.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>In politics, it happens that sometimes even the worst elements say something true, without doing the math. This is what happened with the Vox spokesperson in the Balearic Islands, whose name we will omit because Vox politicians themselves renounce any of their own ideas and always defer to their supreme leader, Santiago Abascal. However, during the general policy debate, this spokesperson managed to tell a truth: "Prohens is Prime Minister thanks to Vox's votes." Sadly, this is the case. This is the first time (and should be the last) that the Balearic Islands have a president conditioned by the demands of a fascist party, who can boast that, if she's in office, it's because they allow her to be. There will be those who suddenly say that Armengol was conditioned by the far left, but this is a fallacy that we must get used to dismantling: there is no political actor in Balearic politics who comes close to anything resembling the far left. Fortunately, it must be added. Therefore, the equivalences between the far right of Vox and a supposed far left represented by MÉS, Podemos, or Sumar are false and would be laughable if they did not contribute to the confusion that, precisely, favors the far right.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sebastià Alzamora]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:45:17 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Prohens attributes 'El pi de Formentor' to Mosén Alcover and not to Miquel Costa i Llobera]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/videos/prohens-attributes-pi-formentor-to-mosen-alcover-and-not-to-miquel-costa-llobera_8_5521060.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/bcfcc9d7-acca-4be1-b038-d1e3bbcfe91f_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>One of the cultural events that Marga Prohens has made during the General Policy Debate has been <em>The Formentor pine</em>, a symbol of a people who "fight the gales that encircle the riverbank, like a giant warrior." The only problem in this case is that Prohens has attributed the poem's authorship to Father Alcover. It's worth noting that the author of this work is Miquel Costa i Llobera.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Leyre Juárez]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:59:08 +0000]]></pubDate>
      <media:content url="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/bcfcc9d7-acca-4be1-b038-d1e3bbcfe91f_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" type="image/jpeg"/>
      <media:title><![CDATA[Prohens attributes The Pi of Formentor to Mosén Alcover and not to Miquel Costa i Llobera]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The Prime Minister has mistaken the authorship of the poem.]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Prohens recites the far-right script on migration and skips major announcements.]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/prohens-recites-the-far-right-script-migration-and-skips-major-announcements_1_5521044.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/bcb6c205-44ea-46e9-b1d8-23bb3819a9b0_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Congratulations, accompanied by irrelevant announcements, and a recitation of the far-right's script on migration. These were the two axes around which Prime Minister Marga Prohens's speech revolved on the first day of the general policy debate this Tuesday. Prohens's intervention made it clear that the government is currently confident in moving forward with major projects, unless it mends its relationship with Vox. One of the phrases Prohens repeated most often during her speech was: "We said it, we did it." It was heard up to 14 times. And the same number of times she said that the government was making policies "for the local people," referring to migration.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Llull]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:44:28 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Marga Prohens arrives at Parliament surrounded by PP heavyweights.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The Prime Minister defends the values of Christian humanism and repeatedly insists on the value of the given word.]]></subtitle>
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