Joan Pons Torres, the gonella councilor of Culture, Education, Youth and Sport to the Council of Menorca from the PP who outside of politics promoted insular variants of Catalan against the standard, now driven by the Consell de Menorca, that Menorcan and the article 'salat' be declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Menorca (BICIM). He assures that “young people are already too influenced by central Catalan,” that “they say 'soc' and not, 'som'” and that attention must be paid to the statute, which defends the need to "promote our linguistic varieties". "Menorcan unites and identifies us and we cannot lose it," he adds.

The amendment to the Menorca Island Council's Language Use Regulations, promoted by the PP government with the support of the former Vox councilor, has sparked a major political and social controversy on the island. Several left-wing groups have filed objections to the text, which they consider a step backward in the defense of the Catalan language and a decision that reopens a debate that Menorca thought was settled.