The Menorca Island Council has taken a shortcut in its language policy, disregarding both its internal advisory service (SAL) and the leading academic body (the Menorcan Institute of Studies). The PP government and independent councilor Maite de Medrano, expelled from Vox, used their combined majority to fulfill the first agreement of their pact and introduce Spanish and "the distinctive forms of Menorcan" into the institution's Regulations on Linguistic Use. The plenary session approved this Monday, despite staunch opposition, a measure that fundamentally modifies 18 of the 27 articles of the regulations that had been in force since 2016. The proposal, which equates Spanish with Catalan in many administrative cases and prioritizes Menorcan, has not been implemented until a year later, as a consequence of the pact with the former Vox councilor that allowed the PP to pass the budget for next year. Joan Pons, who before entering politics directed Sa Fundació and promoted the use of island dialects over standard Catalan, has even eliminated the monitoring committee, composed of technicians and unions, which until now oversaw the application of the regulations, transferring control to himself. This measure, which even the department's own legal advisor has not validated in her required report, has nevertheless been included in the regulations. Among other changes, the new regulations propose the possibility of partially outsourcing the institution's language service or using Spanish for signage "when the sociolinguistic context so advises," and stipulate that all regulations and resolutions, as well as the tender specifications and the website itself, must be published simultaneously in Catalan and Spanish.