The Socialist Group of Inca has unanimously confirmed its general secretary and mayor of the city, Virgilio Moreno, as the candidate for mayor for the upcoming municipal elections in May 2027.

MÉS per Mallorca and the PSIB are exploring the possibility of a joint candidacy for the Senate. Sources from both parties confirm that there are negotiations regarding this matter and the result is expected to be announced in the coming days. If an agreement is finally reached to maximize votes, it would be the first time that MÉS opens itself to a unitary list with the PSIB in the Upper House. Although the Senate is usually a secondary chamber in the day-to-day politics in Madrid, in this legislative term it will gain importance, because the correlation of forces in this chamber can affect a change in majorities in the Constitutional Court.

The People's Party of Sineu will once again trust Tomeu Mulet to lead its project with a view to the municipal elections of May 2027. The current mayor, who has been at the head of the City Council for eight years, faces this new stage with “responsibility, enthusiasm and a great desire to continue working for and on behalf of Sineu”.

The socialist federation of Mallorca set in motion this Saturday the political machinery ahead of the May 2027 elections with the Political Council held today in Lloret de Vistalegre. The meeting served to initiate the process of drafting the PSIB's electoral program, which will have housing policies, the fight against overcrowding, and climate change as its main axes.

Eduardo Robsy was designated this Saturday as the PSOE candidate for the mayoralty of Alaior for the 2027 municipal elections, in an assembly of the socialist party.

The census of absent resident voters (CERA) has grown considerably since October 2022, when the instruction regulating naturalizations through the Democratic Memory Law came into effect. Specifically, in the Balearic Islands, the increase has been 27%. Given this, the Supreme Court has acceded to the claims of Vox and Iustitia Europa and has temporarily blocked the right to vote for a portion of the people who have obtained nationality through this route. But the truth is that the votes of those registered in the CERA are a small percentage of the total. In the last general elections of 2023, they represented 0.84% of the country as a whole, and 0.46% of the Islands. How do these changes to the census affect things in practice?

The PSOE candidate for Mayor of Palma, Iago Negueruela, announced this Wednesday that, if the Socialists govern Cort from 2027 onwards, residents with a card will have priority to board the buses of the Municipal Transport Company (EMT), ahead of tourists. The proposal was presented coinciding with Mobility Week and aims to guarantee access to public transport for citizens who use it regularly to go to work, to the doctor, or for other obligations.

Ana Rosa Abejón announced this Wednesday her candidacy for the Podemos primaries to head the party's list for the Balearic Parliament in the upcoming regional elections in May 2026. According to the party, her proposal is based on the idea that the Balearic Islands cannot continue to be governed "for the benefit of a few while more and more families have difficulty accessing housing, making ends meet, or building a life project."

Mallorca Nova will hold its IV congress this Saturday afternoon at La Col·lectiva, in Palma, with the aim of consolidating itself as a reference for Mallorcan and left-wing youth in the face of the new political and electoral cycle. Under the slogan 'Mallorca, forward!', the youth organization linked to MÉS per Mallorca will renew its leadership and define the strategic lines that will mark its action over the next two years.

10 months left until the election campaign and less than 11 until the elections. And nothing has changed compared to two years ago, when a depressed and unmotivated left-wing opposition was beginning to be seen, that the Government was toying with Vox and that the PP and the far-right would add up again next time.The most significant fact that confirms everything is as it was is Francina Armengol's renunciation of disputing the presidency with Prohens again. If one only reads the bold print of the deed, or as the island PSOE has sold it, one cannot appreciate in any way the political burden it truly carries. To value it in its just measure, it must be placed in the pertinent context.Armengol received the 2023 defeat as a blow, if not personal, at least against her political pride. And a very deep one. This is explained by what her circle asserted throughout the year before the elections. That what they called 'the Francina effect' existed, the attraction directly attributable to the leader's public personality and her management in the Government, which would produce a sufficient number of votes that would dispel assumptions about a potential right-wing victory, a possibility they disdained, especially because they did not believe Prohens had the capacity to regain enough support for the PP.It was a conception of electoral politics that deliberately abstained from the main characteristic that the behavior of suffrage in the Balearic Islands has had in recent decades: the growing importance of the national key. Despite this phenomenon, easily perceptible in the evolution of the results at the polls since at least 2007, they faced the 2023 elections with that conviction.It is worth saying that it was not only the Armengolian environment that said so. It was a more widespread perception. Even among certain nationalists, it was believed that the president had a personal and political advantage that would help her — and incidentally, the entire left — to be re-elected for the third consecutive time. And this was not only happening in the world of political aristocracy: trade unionists and members of independent civil associations, anti-PP and pro-left, thought much the same.Everything, however, changed when a few weeks before the elections the socialist leadership began to understand – surely because of the internal polls that would reach them from the central office – that the fantasy of the aforementioned effect was fading, if it had ever existed.The electoral night did nothing more than confirm the catastrophe: the left lost the Government and Armengol, the presidency. Suddenly, however, the socialists warned – it was a correct reading, there was no doubt: they were right – that they were not responsible for the disaster, but for the collapse of the far-left. Undeniable: Podemos went from 6 deputies to 1. Neocommunism was sinking and dragging the entire left towards the opposition abyss.The slogan that the local PSOE leadership then imposed was that the defeat was a mere parenthesis and that Prohens, in her incompetence, would not manage and Armengol would return to be president in 2027, even if she had fled to Madrid, taking advantage of the general elections of July 2023.It is believable that he thought so. Or, at least, that he was eager to return and "finish the job".At the end of 2024, at the PSOE federal congress in Seville, Armengol hinted at least to two Majorcan journalists – who later recounted it – that she would indeed be a candidate against Prohens. It is even more forceful than when the regional congress was held in March 2025, the website of the Balearic Socialist Party welcomed the re-election of the undisputed leader with: “Armengol announces the first measure for when she returns to being president in 2027…”.The following months, in fact, throughout that year, things – possibly based on fierce polls for the socialists – changed. When in February 2026 the newspaper Última Hora reported that Armengol would resign due to the evidence that the chances of winning again were nil, it was certainly already decided for several weeks.The same newspaper recently published the poll – conducted by the always reliable Balearic Institute of Social Studies – of voting intention which made clear the reason for the resignation: the PSOE is already losing 3.7 percentage points compared to the 2023 result and, worse, loses 4 seats, while the far-left disappears. The nationalists only add one more deputy, in Menorca, and the regionalists get none; the PP is close to an absolute majority and if it doesn't have it – which is more likely – it will be able to make a deal again with Vox, which will at least increase by one seat.This is the reason that explains why Armengol wants to stay in Madrid and confirms what was beginning to be seen two years ago and that the PSOE has now implicitly confessed: that the left has nothing to do.

Ferran Montero Sitges, current councillor for Culture and Education, will be the next candidate for mayor of Manacor for MÉS-Esquerra, a party that thus becomes the first to publicly show its hand and make its face official for the May 2027 elections. Let's talk about it for a while.

Summer once again puts Marga Prohens (Campos, 1982) before the main challenge of her term: tourist saturation. Two years after she promised "brave" containment measures, the street is mobilizing again. She speaks to ARA Balears in her office at the Consulate, where she defends the Executive's management.

The general secretary of the Socialist Federation of Mallorca, Amanda Fernández, announced this Tuesday her candidacy to lead the PSIB list for the Consell de Mallorca in the 2027 elections.

The parliamentary session period closes after some tactical moves. The PP has maneuvered to stage a distancing from Vox. With the approval of the Omnibus Law, the popular party considers the debts of the budget pact settled and believes they no longer have to pay further tolls on sensitive issues, such as language. This was made clear with a decision that is a message in itself: approving the limitation of vehicles in Mallorca with the left-wing party in the Council without waiting for Vox, to send the text to Parliament the very next day. The decision caught the far-right off guard, and they ended up abstaining, seeing that otherwise, they would be alone in voting against it. The Government has warned that it will do the same with the agricultural law, the coastal law, and the budgets. But Vox is not losing its composure and interprets the PP's gestures in an electoral context. "They want to appear as moderate centrists now that the legislature is ending, but it's a lie," criticizes a Vox source.

It is the first time that an independent leads a list since MÉS per Mallorca was founded. David Pujol (Palma, 1980) will lead the MÉS per Palma candidacy in the municipal elections of 2027, with Xisca Mir as number two. He says these are tumultuous times and that precisely for this reason he is taking this step, in search of a broad left-wing front. However, he is also aware that he is racing against time and that the far-right wave is difficult to stop.

The recent popular singing of ‘La Balanguera’, organized by Obra Cultural Balear, was attended by Marga Prohens and other PP officials. The intention seemed to be, on the part of the organization, to hold a politically transversal symbolic event devoid of ideological connotations. It was achieved and the result was a great success in participation.