The Director General of Economy and Statistics, Catalina Barceló, considers that productivity is one of the main problems of the Balearic economy. She provides some data in conversation with ARA Balears, in which she warns that despite economic indicators indicating growth, the Islands have lost competitive strength in recent years.

For forty years, the Balearic Islands have done what, in theory, was supposed to guarantee more prosperity: attract more and more tourists. A consensus and a model that worked and placed the Islands among the richest communities in the State until the late 1980s.

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.