285,000 people living in Palma – two out of three, if we take the 430,000 inhabitants of 2023 as a reference – do not have access to green areas of more than one hectare, according to the report How to guarantee the right to nature?, which compares the green areas of cities according to the population's income and which was made public this Wednesday by Friends of the Earth. Income determines food, education, housing, opportunities, and also something as seemingly simple as living near a park. The entity's analysis is based on the recommendation of the World Health Organization, the 3-30-300 rule: being able to see 3 trees from the window, 30% vegetation cover in the neighborhood, and a park of at least one hectare no more than 300 meters away.Palma has large parks, but proximity vegetation is scarce in neighborhoods with higher population density, which are also those with lower incomes. "In the lower-income neighborhoods, the area of green space per inhabitant is lower than in higher-income areas due to population density," says the report, which notes that "the situation is especially worrying mainly for vulnerable people, who are the ones with less green space and fewer options to adapt to climate change," explains the head of Participation and Projects at Amics de la Terra Mallorca, Lucía Ami. These are people who do not have their "right to nature" guaranteed.

The Ombudsman has opened an investigation into the Palma City Council following a complaint filed by Ben Amics, which accuses the Consistory of violating fundamental rights due to the repeated difficulties that, according to the entity, it has placed in organizing the Pride events.

The Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands has set a date for the preliminary hearing of the oral trial against the President of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne. It will take place on October 28. This was reported by the association Memòria de Mallorca, which is part of the private prosecution. The leader of the Chamber faces charges for an alleged hate crime, for having torn up a photograph of Aurora Picornell and les Roges del Molinar during the plenary session of the Parliament.

89.6% of the students who took the ordinary call for the University Entrance Exams (PAU) in June have obtained a passing grade. In total, 3,533 students out of the 3,942 who took them have passed the exams. The average access grade – which combines the Baccalaureate qualification with the exam phase – stands at 7.086, a figure very similar to that recorded last year, when it was 7.099, according to the data provided.

Approximately 1,500 undergraduate students from the University of the Balearic Islands will participate in the joint graduation ceremony that will take place on July 9 at the Son Moix stadium in Palma. Registrations are still open, so the final number of participants may vary slightly.

The Porreres Apricot Fair is all set for its 13th edition, which has gradually established itself as one of the most special events on the calendar. This Saturday, the town's streets will be filled with colour, flavour, and creativity, with the apricot as the undisputed main and sole star.

The PSIB-PSOE has registered requests for appearances so that the Minister of Education, Antoni Vera, and the Minister of Health, Manuela García, give explanations to Parliament for the closure of the central kitchen of Can Arabí and for the uncertainty that the situation may generate regarding summer schools, which will begin in a few weeks. Socialist deputy Amanda Fernández has warned that the same company has provided services in previous years for summer activities and has requested to know what will happen this year with these services, which are on the verge of being activated. The closure of the kitchen, one of the main school catering companies in Mallorca and responsible for 45 school canteens across the island, has occurred just nine days before the end of the course and has forced an urgent reorganization of the canteen service in 33 educational centers, with the redistribution of nearly 2,000 daily menus.

The Department of Education and Universities will launch, at the request of the Educational Inspection department, an evaluation system for the management teams of the centers with the aim of detecting possible problems with the work environment, improving conflict management, and reinforcing pedagogical leadership. This is one of the main measures arising from the "Docent 360" working group, promoted by the Government to strengthen the emotional well-being of teachers, the conclusions of which were presented this Wednesday by the Minister of Education, Antoni Vera.

Red Eléctrica has initiated the technical work necessary to advance the environmental processing of the second electrical connection between Mallorca and Menorca, a controversial project that has generated debate due to its passage through the Maristany area, one of Alcúdia's main wetland areas.

“We ask the Manacor City Council and the Government to stop this aberration which, among other things, will produce eight tons of manure daily. When it rains, they will intoxicate all the aquifers that reach the city,” denounced this Wednesday afternoon Sílvia Llull, one of those affected by the mega-farm of 80,000 laying hens that the company Avícola Son Perot wants to build on the Manacor estate of Son Brau.

The statement of the former president of the Parliament Balti Picornell, who had been summoned as investigated in the case promoted by Vox leader Jorge Campos, was suspended this Thursday in the Palma courts after his defense alleged defects in the notification of the procedure.

What happened that, with only a few days left until the end of the school year, the closure of one of the main central kitchens supplying school canteens in Mallorca was ordered and nearly 2,000 daily menus were put at risk? This is the question that remains open after the Ministry of Health of the Balearic Islands decreed the precautionary closure of the central kitchen of the restaurant Can Arabí, a decision made on Monday, June 8, following a health inspection. The closure has had an immediate effect on the school canteen system: 33 educational centers had to be urgently reorganized and menus redistributed among various companies. In total, Can Arabí managed nearly 45 school canteens, many of them on a catering basis. That same Monday night, the Department of Education activated an emergency device to ensure that no center would be left without service.

Two people died this Thursday early in the morning in a fire that broke out at 5.23 a.m. in a residential building in Magaluf, in the Mallorcan municipality of Calvià, where several people were also injured. The Civil Guard reported that the deceased are a 58-year-old man of Argentine nationality and a woman who have not yet been identified. Furthermore, they added that they did not live together, but were in different homes at the time of the fire.

"For two years now, practically every time we go there, we find problems."practically every time we go there, we find problemsThe decision made on Monday has caused a real race against time to guarantee the canteen service for 33 educational centers and redistribute nearly 2,000 school menus daily with only nine days left until the end of the school year. Officially, the Ministry of Health has justified the closure due to non-compliance detected in the preparation, handling, and transport of food. However, the consulted sources assure that the intervention is the culmination of years of inspections, warnings, and proceedings.

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 territorial coordinator of GOB, Miquel Camps Taltavull (Maó, 1963), is warming up to launch from this Saturday, June 13 (7:30 PM), the new summer of mobilizations announced by Via Menorca. An army of ants "fed up with mass tourism" are already walking towards the Biosphere Square in Maó to demonstrate in defense of the right to housing and against those who "suck our water dry until the aquifers are left dry" and those who "condemn us to precarious jobs to barely live off tourism".

There is not enough water for everyone. Even more so in Maó, where the City Council has decided to bring forward the usual restrictions of these past summers. It is already prohibited in the city for companies and establishments to clean cars in the street and for individuals to clean boats and water gardens. Cruise ships can no longer refuel at the port either. Even so, a good part of the water served to the population continues to be non-potable and is mixed with water from other wells, even from outside the municipality, to guarantee at least the quantity, if not the quality, that is needed.

The organizations Sineu en Bici i a Peu, Vianants Mallorca, the Train Users Association (AUT), and Terraferida have evaluated the new law regulating vehicle influx approved by the Consell de Mallorca, but they consider that the norm, by itself, will not serve to decongest the island. In a joint statement, they demand that the Consell and the Government stop announcing studies and large future infrastructures and promote immediate improvements in public transport.

The coalition between island parties Ara Més (MÉS per Mallorca, Més per Menorca and Ara Eivissa) has managed to secure the support of a good part of the Spanish government's parliamentary partners so that they vote in favor of the airport co-management of the Balearic Islands in Congress. Representatives of the three parties presented the proposal, which was approved in the Balearic Parliament, this Wednesday in Congress.airport co-management of the Balearic Islands in Congress. Representatives of the three parties presented the proposal, which was approved in the Balearic Parliament, this Wednesday in Congress.

With the price of gasoline and diesel through the roof and an increasingly evident energy dependence crisis in Europe, electric cars have already become an increasingly realistic alternative when buying a new car. Modern zero-emission electric cars have progressively shorter charging times, and at this point, they far surpass combustion vehicles in any comparative analysis that includes short and urban trips.

The Government presented this Wednesday a new action guide for educational centers that establishes how situations arising from adverse weather phenomena such as heavy rainfall, episodes of drought, heat waves, strong winds, and floods should be managed. The document was presented by the Minister of the Presidency, Coordination of Government Action and Local Cooperation, Antònia Estarellas, and the Minister of Education and Universities, Antoni Vera. As they explained, the new tool is born with the aim of homogenizing criteria and providing greater security to management teams in emergency situations.

The Federation of Monasteries of Hieronymite Nuns of Santa Paula is studying the future of the Santa Elisabet de Palma monastery and has made it clear that they will prioritize its use for religious purposes, if possible, to house a community of nuns. Among other options, they have pointed to the possibility of dedicating the convent to social or educational use, as Saint Jerome was dedicated to teaching Christian morality. In any case, the order of the Hieronymites is clear that the convent will not, under any circumstances, be converted into a hotel, and they have pointed to this possibility as an "unfounded rumor" from the time of Bishop Javier Salinas.

The mayor of Calvià has signed a municipal decree due to the 2026 Football World Cup, which will take place between June 11 and July 19. The document establishes a series of rules aimed at reconciling the development of leisure activities with safety, citizen coexistence, and the rest of residents and tourists.The text establishes an exceptional time regulation for broadcasting certain matches. According to the City Council, through a statement, if a match starts within the establishment's ordinary opening hours, it will not be necessary to stop the activity of the premises or the terrace at the usual closing time, thus avoiding clients being left without seeing the end. Establishments will be able to extend closing time up to 15 minutes after the end of the match, including extra time and penalty shootouts. It is important to note that this time exception will apply exclusively to matches played by the national teams of Spain, Germany, England, and Scotland, in addition to the semi-final matches, the final, and the third-place play-off.Conversely, if the match starts at or after the official closing time of the public establishment, it will not be able to keep its doors open and must strictly adhere to the time stipulated in the ordinary license.The decree consolidates a series of coexistence rules that were already implemented during Eurocopa 2024, an event that took place with complete normality in Calvià under these same guidelines: in terraces and outdoor areas, from midnight the audio emission must be completely suppressed, and the volume will be set to zero. Only the visual signal of the matches may be broadcast to ensure the rest of neighbors and tourists.Likewise, screens and televisions must always be oriented towards the inside of establishments. The measure aims to prevent public space crowds that could hinder the passage of pedestrians and road traffic.The Calvià Town Hall warns that non-compliance with the provisions of this decree, as well as with the applicable Municipal Ordinances, will be subject to sanction. Therefore, establishment owners are appealed to collaborate in preventing any disturbance to safety and coexistence.

The Hotel Business Federation of Mallorca (FEHM) expressed this Tuesday its respect for the demonstration called against the tourist saturation planned for July in Palma, but has harshly criticized the narrative of the protest, which it considers "uses tourism as a punching bag".

The Palma City Council has evicted the old Palma prison after a court authorized its execution due to the high risk that, according to various technical reports, the state of the property represents for the people who still reside there. The operation, coordinated between the Local Police and the National Police, began at 12 noon and lasted for a large part of the day. One of the evicted, Bernardino, a 60-year-old Italian who was evicted, criticized being treated like a drug trafficker and commented to journalists: "Tonight I will sleep on the street, in this park, what a mess."

The Second Section of the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands has on Wednesday sentenced a man to five years in prison for attempting to kill his partner, another man, during an assault that occurred in Manacor in September 2024.

The latest problems and criticisms made public by users who have not been able to bury their loved ones, due to security problems, in family tombs, have led the City Council to now face the urgent need to reform the old part of the Son Coletes municipal cemetery, in Manacor. And it is that although the space, redeveloped between 1953 and 1957 after an initial use during the plague, has been in a state of evident degradation for years due to the passage of time and lack of maintenance, it has not been until recent weeks that the Consistory has decided to get down to business.

The migratory route between Algeria and the Spanish state has claimed the lives of 507 people between January and May 2026, many of whom are believed to have died in waters near the Balearic Islands. This is according to the latest report from the NGO Caminando Fronteras, which documents a total of 1,317 fatal victims on the different routes to the Spanish coasts during the first five months of the year.

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. 

The Literanta bookstore has announced its definitive closure after twenty years of activity in the historic center of Palma. This was communicated this Tuesday through a social media post in which it bids farewell to its clients and friends.

The drivers of EMT Palma have added new complaints about the state of the fleet and the municipal company's infrastructure following criticism leveled in recent days over the lack of operational vehicles and difficulties in incorporating new electric buses. According to staff sources, among the detected incidents are widespread problems with the air conditioning systems of many older buses. The workers, who have sent their complaints to ARA Balears and requested anonymity, assure that a significant portion of conventional buses are operating with climate control systems in poor condition because those in charge have allegedly not performed the necessary annual recharge.

Albert Xamena is a biochemist, neuroscience student, and content creator. On Instagram, he already exceeds 11,000 followers thanks to Entre Fones i Neurones, a Catalan-language outreach project where he combines science, history, art, and thought from the Balearic Islands. He has achieved this popularity without insulting people in 50-second videos with split screens and hundreds of stimuli, but with an educational and calm space. In this interview, he reflects on algorithms, mental health, scientific dissemination, and the role of social networks in today's society.

The new Ports Law, which plans to extend the private management of some marinas and sports ports in the Balearic Islands until the age of 75, has coincided with the abrupt end of the concession of the 270 moorings at Lago Resort in Cala en Bosc, Ciutadella, the only one that had been in force for 30 years without any economic consideration from the company to the Administration.

For non-compliance in the preparation, handling, and transport of food intended for educational centers. These are the reasons why the Ministry of Health has ordered the precautionary closure of the central kitchen of the Can Arabí restaurant with only nine days left to finish the school year. The decision has forced the redistribution, from one day to the next, of nearly 2,000 school menus from 33 centers among three different companies. In total, Can Arabí manages 45 school canteens, many of them catering. The inspection was carried out this Monday and, well into the night, technicians from the Ministry of Education contacted management teams and families to inform them of the situation and activate an emergency plan to maintain the canteen service.

The latest problems and criticisms made public by users who have not been able to bury their loved ones, due to security issues, in family tombs, have led the City Council to now face the urgent need to reform the old part of the Son Coletes municipal cemetery in Manacor. Although the space, redeveloped between 1953 and 1957 after its initial use during the plague, has been in a state of evident degradation for years due to the passage of time and lack of maintenance, it is only in recent weeks that the Council has decided to take action.

The Urban Planning Department of the Palma City Council has authorized the license for the construction of 80 limited-price rental homes in the Son Ferragut neighborhood, specifically on plot number 6 of Isabel de Villena street.

The Balearic Islands will conduct this September the largest count of homeless people and those in situations of residential exclusion that has been promoted so far in the Archipelago. The initiative, promoted by the Social Observatory of the Balearic Islands (OSIB) of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) and the Network for Inclusion EAPN Balearic Islands, will deploy nearly 500 volunteers in municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants with the aim of sizing a reality that remains largely hidden.

A court in Palma has partially upheld a lawsuit filed by CCOO de l'Hàbitat against Tirme, UGT, and ARL for preventing the participation of the CCOO delegate in a meeting where labor issues were discussed.

The Parliament approved this Tuesday to process a Vox bill that calls for the prohibition of the burqa and niqab (full veils) in public spaces. The initial debate on the rule went ahead with the support of the PP. Once the text is definitively approved, it will be sent to the Congress of Deputies, as the Balearic Chamber does not have the powers to regulate an organic law or change state-level regulations.

The National Police arrested Francisco Tomás Fernández Cortés this Tuesday, known as 'l'Ico', after he caused a serious incident at Son Llàtzer hospital. According to the investigation, the man entered the hospital premises early in the morning brandishing a firearm, which caused moments of great tension among staff and users.

The rise of artificial intelligence as a tool for planning trips is not only changing how vacations are decided, but is also beginning to have a direct effect on which territories receive more tourist pressure. A study on tourist consumption trends points out that Sant Antoni de Portmany, in Ibiza, and Ciutadella in Menorca, are among the destinations recommended by AI agents to travelers, a fact that places the Balearic Islands within a new ecosystem of automated recommendations that may end up conditioning tourist flows even further.

A comprehensive and million-dollar renovation. This is what the Manacor City Council announced this Tuesday during the presentation of the Action and Management Plan for the Son Coletes municipal cemetery, an initiative that combines urban planning actions, infrastructure investments, and a profound administrative modernization with the aim of guaranteeing the safety, conservation, and correct management of an essential public facility for the municipality.

The University of Mallorca (Umac), the first private university in the Balearic Islands, has appointed Dr. Pere Riutord Sbert as the institution's new rector. The center's board of trustees has entrusted the academic direction of the project to one of the most recognized names in the field of odontology in the Islands, with a long teaching, research, and university management career.

Temperatures above average and numerous tropical nights. This is the conclusion reached by Aemet and presented this Tuesday. According to the State Meteorological Agency, the Islands will have a hotter than usual summer, especially during the months of July, August, and September, when the average temperature could be between 0.5 and 1 degree above normal values.

The President of the Government, Marga Prohens, defended this Tuesday the amendment that the PP incorporated into the Omnibus Law, and which will allow legal entities to acquire housing at a set pricelegal entities can acquire housing at a fixed price

Marratxí's budgets for 2026, approved this week with the votes of the PP and Vox, have opened a new political front in the municipality. The accounts amount to 42.6 million euros, 8.39% more than last year, and incorporate some of the main demands of the far-right party, which has provoked criticism from the opposition.

The teacher and speech therapist Pilar Castelló, Ramon Llull award 2020, has died at 73 years of age. The President of the Government, Marga Prohens, and the rest of the Government expressed their condolences this Tuesday and highlighted Castelló's dedication to public service, which began in 1977, when she became the first woman to hold a permanent civil servant position at the Formentera City Council.

In the Islands, we have achieved a new administrative feat, a new magic trick: to be able to expand a marine reserve, we have agreed to reduce the protection of all of them. And I explain it. We are located in Freus, between Ibiza and Formentera, the first marine reserve declared in the Balearic Islands, in May 1999. Last year, the Government, after presenting its ambitious Marine Conservation Plan, announced the expansion of the protected area. And, to no one's surprise, recreational fishermen took up arms with their well-known tactics to pressure politicians: references to tradition, to "reserves are closed areas for professionals" and that very Sicilian-sounding threat to withdraw votes from the PP. By the way, tradition as an argument to curb environmental protection would deserve a whole article, but that will be another day.And what has been the Government's response? Now comes the sleight of hand, because the solution proposes to expand the reserve but to reduce, in return, the level of protection for both this area and Punta de la Creu, Tagomago and the western islets. If it is finally approved (the objection phase has just closed), recreational fishermen will be able to increase fishing quotas and, in addition, use techniques that until now are not permitted in most of the reserves. The director of the Marilles Foundation, biologist Aniol Esteban, summarized it as follows on IB3 radio's Nautilus: “We are talking about a decree that will increase fishing pressure in the marine reserves of Ibiza and Formentera”. Disrupted reserves.Global warming

Fishermen believe that the sea belongs to them and that, therefore, they have the right to exploit it infinitely, without taking into account that entire populations have already been exterminated. Without taking into account the added pressure of global warming (even sardine populations are dwindling, but you can be sure they will be fished until there are none left, because freedom is more important than biodiversity). Any progress in the defense of the marine environment continues to be subject to the veto right of the sectors that exploit its resources. A minority veto over a common good. We have assumed that fishermen – professional or recreational – have a kind of special authority over the sea, an automatic legitimacy to determine what can and cannot be done there. Why? I insist: WHY? Why should those who exploit the sea decide on its protection if we all depend on it?The problem is, in large part, a matter of language and structure, because the Balearic reserves are technically marine reserves of fishing interest and, of course, even if this allows for the improvement of populations, the objective is that, in the future, fishermen will have more marine life to exploit. They don't even call it life, they call it 'fishing resources', and until we stop thinking about the oceans and their inhabitants from the perspective of predation, we will not be able to save them. It's the same linguistic trap with which whales were protected just forty years ago. They weren't stopped from being killed just like that in view of the catastrophe their disappearance represented, but rather a moratorium was established, which means they are allowed to grow and multiply, and we'll see if they are ever hunted again. Resources, stock, and exploitation are loaded words with which humans sustain their self-proclaimed status as gods of the world – unsatisfied and irresponsible gods, as Yuval Noah Harari would say – to continue considering that animals and their habitats are there for their sole profit. A language in the service of an idea that leads us to disaster, that hides that our entire life depends on a healthy ocean, that without it there is nothing. It's time we understood that its health is ours. So I will go even further, and you can call me radical; if we are clear that the sea is overexploited, that there is neither the diversity nor the populations of twenty or thirty years ago – and I won't go any further – why is it assumed as normal to continue eating the ocean? Why do those who sustain overexploitation have more right than I do to decide on the future?The sea does not belong to those who exploit it. The sea is a common good on which we all depend, including those who do not fish and those who have even reached the –uncomfortable for many, but difficult to ignore– conclusion that in an overexploited ecosystem, the most coherent response is to stop eating it. Conservation should not start with the question of how we can continue fishing without reaching the point of no return, but rather what we are willing to give up – here and now – so that ecosystems continue to exist. And perhaps the marine protected areas we should have in the Islands should not be reserves of fishing interest, but let's see who dares to open this debate.

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A few days ago, the president of the employers' association of real estate developers in the Balearic Islands recommended that young people start saving 300 euros a month to be able to access, in five years, the thousands of limited-price homes that are planned to be built in Palma. The news, at first glance, even seems hopeful. Finally, a residential solution could begin to open up for part of the resident population. And it is probably true that many of these developments will be necessary. It is also true that without formulas like limited-price housing, a significant portion of residents could no longer aspire today to access housing in the current market. But behind this promise there is a question that is hard to ignore: what will happen during these five years? And, above all: who will build these homes?

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The closure this Monday of the central kitchen of Can Arabí, a company that manages the largest volume of school canteens in the Balearic Islands (45, many of them catering), has left about 2,000 daily menus in suspense, as ARA Balears has been able to exclusively learn from various sources. The canteens that Can Arabí serves with kitchens at the same center maintain their activity. Given this situation, and with the reasons for the closure still unknown at this time, a contingency plan will be activated this Tuesday that foresees the distribution of meals through three other supplier companies. However, the usual adaptations for students with food intolerances or allergies will not be guaranteed.

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Red Eléctrica, a subsidiary of Redeia responsible for the transport and operation of the Spanish electricity system, is advancing in the construction of the battery system alongside the existing Sant Antoni substation (Ibiza), as the Secretary of State for Energy, Joan Groizard, and the president of Redeia, Beatriz Corredor, were able to verify today during a visit to the works.

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A figure dressed in traditional peasant attire, her face hidden behind a skull mask and, often, dragging a large bag of rubbish. This is how Madò Farta has presented herself on social media, a new anonymous character who, in a few days, has begun to make her mark in different settings in Mallorca with a message against tourist overcrowding and, in particular, against incivility.

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The case of Ibiza is the precedent that Mallorca is now observing, after the bill to restrict vehicles on the island, which aims to limit the current collapse situation, has already been registered in Parliament. The first season of vehicle limitation application allowed for a reduction of approximately 32,000 in the number of vehicles that could circulate during the regulated period, according to data from the Pitiusan Council. The rule establishes a cap on non-resident vehicles and a specific quota for rental cars, with the aim of reducing saturation.the current collapse situation. The first season of vehicle limitation application allowed for a reduction of approximately 32,000 in the number of vehicles that could circulate during the regulated period, according to data from the Pitiusan Council. The rule establishes a cap on non-resident vehicles and a specific quota for rental cars, with the aim of reducing saturation.

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The first person to knock on Vicenç Vidal's office door at Congress was a deputy from EH Bildu, to offer him technical or legal assistance if he needed it. It was the first time in history that MÉS per Mallorca had representation in the Lower House. That summer of 2023, the deputy began to see the fruits of the efforts the party had made for years to stop being unknown in the State's sovereignist movement. Informally, the Basque left has become one of the most important supporters of the eco-sovereignists, beyond the pacts with ERC in the Balearic Islands and the strategic alliance with Sumar.

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This Monday, the release of 39 marine turtles took place on Can Pere Antoni beach, as part of the Head Starting reintroduction program.

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The Llull Laboratory – a space for experimentation, teaching, debate, and dissemination, inspired by Ramon Llull's ideas as a source of reflection created by the Estudi General Lul·lià – has announced, following the success of the first edition, a second call for international artistic creation grants for projects linked to the work of Ramon Llull, thus fostering the dissemination and research of Lullian thought through contemporary art.

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The entity Arrels Marines has received a citizen complaint within the framework of the #LaMarNoÉsTeva campaign, in which a user has recorded the daily overcrowding in a protected area of the Bay of Palma, near Cap Enderrocat, a space declared a marine reserve and integrated into the Natura 2000 Network as a Site of Community Importance (SCI).

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A patient from the Psychiatry area of Son Espases hospital has caused a fire, which was quickly extinguished without causing significant personal or material damage.

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The first regional agreement for the education sector for 0 to 3 year olds in the Balearic Islands continues to be further away than ever. The employers' associations CECEIB and PIMEM refused this Monday, for the third time, to sign the document necessary to formally constitute the negotiating committee, an essential step to begin talks for an agreement that has been demanded for years by unions and early childhood education workers. The deadlock keeps alive the strike called for next June 16, which worker representatives anticipate will have significant participation. The employers' refusal clashes with the proposals agreed upon in July 2025 during the resolution of the conflict of the outsourced early childhood education centers in Palma, when a salary improvement was agreed upon and the door was opened to the negotiation of a regional agreement.

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The Consumers' Association of the Balearic Islands (Consubal) has reported that patients in the public healthcare system are receiving new medical appointments with delays of up to five months after consultations were cancelled during recent strike days.

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The Acció Cassandra association has filed a criminal complaint before the courts of Palma against the Balearic Islands Blood and Tissue Bank Foundation for an alleged case of linguistic discrimination that occurred in February in Palma. According to the entity, a 65-year-old man who had been a donor for more than 25 years had to leave without completing the donation because the on-call doctor refused to attend to him in Catalan and demanded that he speak in Spanish.

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The president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, has already registered the insular institution's proposal to limit vehicle entry to the island in Parliament, as stated in the Chamber's registry. The popular politician is pushing the deadlines to try to get the regulation definitively approved before the legislature ends, although it is already late for this tourist season and there are doubts that he will achieve it. However, the parties have already confirmed that they will maintain their position in Parliament and, therefore, he has the necessary majority.

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More than half of fifth and sixth grade Primary students in the Balearic Islands have their own mobile phone. This is one of the main conclusions of the report Childhood, Adolescence and Digital Well-being in the Balearic Islands, which also reveals that one in three minors has seen pornography online and that 14.1% show clear symptoms of emotional distress.

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An administrative litigation court has upheld the appeal filed by Amics de la Casa del Poble against the Government's decision to reject the request for the old Casa del Poble in Palma to be registered as a memory space in accordance with the Law on Democratic Memory of the Balearic Islands of 2018.

]]> In its fortunate and necessary return to activity, Terraferida has launched the campaign ‘Foravila fora grues’ (Out of town, no cranes), which proposes a response to the phenomenon of indiscriminate urbanization of rural land in Mallorca. You can read, incidentally, here at ARA Balears, an excellent opinion piece by Sebastià Portell on this issue: 'Many little houses make a little hell' it is titled, with apt irony. Portell mentions it, but it should be emphasized that in recent years (especially since the pandemic) we are no longer talking only about little houses for weekend getaways or stays, but about large chalets and luxury homes with swimming pools, lawn extensions, and even their own roundabout, all built on what were once cultivated fields or forest areas. Very often the money is German, or Swedish, or British, or Russian: curiously, those who say that Mallorca has too many people, these do not bother them at all and they only feel cramped in the presence of immigrants. They reject the poor because they say they are illegal; on the other hand, the rich who build houses – these indeed – illegal, they welcome them most enthusiastically.The wild multiplication of constructions in the outskirts ends up generating small – and not so small – illegal developments, with all the problems this generates. True damage to the environment, including loss of agricultural and forest land, loss of food sovereignty (we have to buy food from outside because we have destroyed the farmers and livestock breeders and we do not produce enough), more cars, pollution and saturation also in the outskirts, and destruction of the territory, with fatal consequences for many animal and plant species. Also social problems, such as the increase – even more – in the cost of housing and municipal services, which, on the other hand, are often insufficient. And the destruction of farming, a phenomenon that can only be described as self-destructive. And the increase in social inequalities, between wealthy owners who can afford to buy or have houses built wherever they please, and a large mass of the population who cannot even dream of affording to own or rent a home. And the degradation of municipalities, and of the island as a whole, to serve as mere backdrops for the fantasy home that a completely uprooted millionaire has decided to build for himself "in the Mediterranean", which for them is an image they have seen in films and decoration magazines.To avoid all this mess (which is already alarming, but not yet irreversible) Terraferida points out a realistic, pragmatic, non-anti-system solution that is in our hands. It does not depend on Madrid, nor even on the Balearic Government, but on the Consell de Mallorca. It is about removing from the Territorial Plan of Majorca (PTIM), the famous rule of two quarterades, or 14,000 m2, which are required to build a dwelling in a rural area, and which has given rise to all sorts of plays and gambits to achieve summing up square meters (it has even given rise to an endemic species of speculator, called ‘aplegacortons’). In a place as exotic as Menorca, this rule does not exist, and this has made it possible to preserve the countryside, and its uses, much better than has been done in Mallorca and Ibiza. It is time to also move towards a new type of urban planning, as is already being considered in European countries such as France: to build nothing in rural areas, but to concentrate on the construction and rehabilitation of buildings in urban areas. If you wish to join the campaign, you can sign the manifesto at terraferida.cat. And we are all called to a great (very great) demonstration with this same slogan, ‘Foravila fora grues’, on July 26th in Palma. It is necessary and urgent.

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Anniversaries are always a cause for anticipation and happiness. If, moreover, it's four decades of continued success and future projects, the celebration becomes even happier. This Sunday, Hipercentro celebrated the 40th anniversary of the opening of its first supermarket, in Manacor on June 7, 1986, when three partners: Pere Gonçal Aguiló, Bernat Font, and Pere Nicolau, mortgaged what they had to compete at a distance with the large retail spaces that were opening in Palma. Today, they already have between 1,000 and 1,200 employees (depending on the season) and keep about thirty of their own establishments open in the Balearic Islands, with a forthcoming opening in Sóller.

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There are weekswhen I ask ChatGPT why it's possible that I can't stop crying and if I should worry about it. And there are weeks when I listen to the dirtiest reggaeton on repeat, so confident that I see myself capable of posting a selfie in the bathroom mirror. But at no time am I aware that this feeling is the product of my hormones. Every month I feel cheated by myself: another time, I surprise myself, as if this same process had not repeated for almost 20 years. That's why, and for when I feel I can't trust myself, I have monitored what happens to my body and my mind in the 28 days of my menstrual cycle, according to my mobile app.

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From a very young age, she had her ideas very clear. “When she set her mind on something, she had to have her way,” they say about her. She soon developed a special ability to achieve what she wanted: “She knew perfectly how to ask for things from each person. She did it with innocence, but she almost always succeeded. She had great intuition for reading people.” Children and stories have been two constants throughout her life. When she was a girl, she would sit the little ones down and tell them stories. Later she studied teaching and worked for a few years as a Primary school teacher before dedicating herself fully to philology. We are talking about Caterina Valriu (Inca, 1960), na Catalina Contacontes, and her older sister, Paula, who is seven years her junior, introduces us to her.

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The advancement of final exams and the closing of evaluation records for first-year Baccalaureate has altered the end of the school year in the Balearic Islands' high schools and has opened a growing debate among teachers, families, and students about the real meaning of June now. The decision by the Department of Education—which sets the closing of ordinary grades before June 5 and keeps classes until the 19th—aimed to reorganize the calendar, advance retakes, and dedicate the following weeks to both supporting students with pending subjects and maintaining teaching activity with approved students. However, on the ground, the majority perception is different: absenteeism has soared and effective learning time has been lost.

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A new call to fill Palma

The discontent against tourist overcrowding will return to the streets this summer. The platform Menys Turisme, Més Vida (Less Tourism, More Life) has called a new large demonstration in Palma for July 26 at 7:00 PM with the aim of repeating the massive mobilizations of recent years and placing the tourism model back at the center of political and social debate.

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Los Estunmen arrive at the Teatros del Canal after passing through the Lliure de Barcelona with all the blessings and approval of the Liceu and the Real, but with reticences as if a product of these characteristics did not yet have enough guarantees to be performed in the ancestral homes. Perhaps they are only prejudices, which is not understood after having seen in the grand house, in both and in many more, some operatic creation that was “amazing”. It is clear that the progenitors of the creature, Nao Albet and Marcel Borràs, have played the role - which is also a game that fits perfectly with this baby - of transgression and they announce it from the title. Els estunmen is nothing more than the pronunciation of the stuntmen, the specialists, the doubles of the protagonists, those who are there and pretend to be. The capos, Albet and Borràs, say it is an opera and they are surely right and have reasons to classify it within this genre, where contemporaneity always finds almost insurmountable barriers. The music is by Fernando Velázquez, who instead of transgressing creates a precise and fitting alloy of quite a few operatic eras, although if the story speaks, among many other things, of heroes, who better than Wagner as a great source of inspiration. For this, and for many other things, we are facing a guesamcunstverq, which is how the total work of art preached by the gentleman of Bayreuth is pronounced.

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MÉS per Mallorca has called on the Government for a shock plan to adapt the educational centers of the Balearic Islands to heat episodes, which are increasingly common during the school months. The party has registered a proposal in Parliament to promote actions that improve thermal comfort in schools and institutes.

]]> The regulation of vehicle entry into Mallorca, just approved by the Council, following those made by Formentera and Ibiza, is good news. It may seem an obvious statement, but it is not, considering that for years saturation has occupied headlines, studies, political debates, and street conversations, and yet, effective measures to limit it have been very scarce. That is why it is fair to recognize the value of an initiative that has also achieved broad political support, with the sole opposition of Vox.

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A gas leak in a home in Vileta, Palma, left four people seriously injured and nine others with minor effects early Sunday morning. The incident occurred shortly after six in the morning in an apartment on Pisa street.

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At the last festival in Malaga, journalists asked an influencer invited by the organization to recommend a title. “A movie? How boring?” she replied to the reporters and the two million followers she has. All this on the red carpet of a film festival.

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Every time the president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, arrived in his hometown, Santanyí – of which he was also mayor – he had to hear the recurring comments from neighbors, many of them PP voters: “There is no way to get around Mallorca. Llorenç, you have to do something”.

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For years, Cuba was one of the star destinations in the Caribbean for residents of the Balearic Islands. Its beaches, colonial heritage, culture, and close ties with Mallorcan tourism companies made it a regular choice for travel agencies. Today, however, the situation is very different. Vacation bookings to the island have plummeted, and the sector openly admits it no longer recommends it with the same confidence as before.

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Between 1960 and 1980, in just two decades, the population of Palma doubled. It went from 150,000 inhabitants to 300,000. The tourist boom, with its epicenter in l'Arenal, turned the Balearic capital into a kind of promised land not only for peninsulars, especially from Andalusia and Murcia, but also for families from the Part Forana, who were fleeing the harshness of the countryside. One of the suburban neighborhoods that was suddenly colonized was Son Gotleu, located in the Llevant district, between Aragó street and La Soledat. Its transformation can be traced in the exhibition Son Gotleu, beyond the headline. The origins of a welcoming neighborhood (1960-1980). Until the second week of June it will be at the neighborhood's health center and then it will move to the Mater center. It is a project by Palma XXI and Arquitectives, coordinated by the historian from Pollença Leyla Dworkin with the support of Caixa Colonya and Fundació Iniciatives del Mediterrani.

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The Platform for Public and Open Paths, GADMA, and various entities defending public heritage have today expressed concern over the start of private works on the Roca path, in Manacor, and are demanding its immediate halt. On Monday, June 1, the first movements were observed for the construction of two dry stone columns to install a barrier that will further close off the path, even though it initially seemed it would be reopened to be included in the Manacor Paths Catalogue.

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He reached 95 years of age and was absolutely prolific. Josep Costa Ferrer, nicknamed Picarol, was an excellent draftsman and satirical cartoonist, a specialist in art and antiques, an amateur archaeologist, a gallery owner, also a pioneer of tourism and landscape defense, and even the creator of a utopian urbanization. Ibiza will remember him with an exhibition this summer, when it is 150 years since his birth, on June 7, 1876. That was the beginning of a life path that would culminate in Cala d’Or, Mallorca, after a North American adventure in Chicago.

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Speakers know that words are rarely innocent. We are fully aware that we use them loaded with social values and connotations that we have learned throughout our experience as members of a linguistic community. For many of us, the word ‘estaca’ no longer solely designates a stake driven into the ground and has become, with Lluís Llach's song, a symbol of the collective will to overcome oppression. The social and emotional meaning of the word ‘estaca’ therefore goes far beyond its strictly literal meaning.

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Bread, a staple food for humanity, seems to have originated by chance. It is said that the first inhabitants collected wild cereals and then used the grain by crushing it between two stones to make porridge. It is believed that one day, someone forgot some of this porridge near the fire, or perhaps poured it intentionally onto a hot stone. The result was a dry, flat, and crispy paste, the first unleavened bread (without yeast) in history. Bread as we know it today, fluffy, with crumb and volume, was born in ancient Egypt. Chance again played in its favor when some forgotten shepherd captured some of the yeast fungi that live suspended in the air. That dough swelled and when they found it, they decided to bake it. The result was truly a miracle: a soft, tasty, and much easier to digest bread.

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Decide Calvià, Esquerra Unida de Calvià, Moviment Sumar Illes Balears and MÉS per Calvià presented this Saturday the coalition Esquerra per Calvià, a unitary candidacy with which the four formations plan to run in the municipal elections of May 2027.

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The Balearic Port Authority (APB) has decided to archive the tender to award the management of the Golondrines dock in the port of Palma after detecting indications of a possible leak of the procedure's bases, a fact that has called into question the guarantees of transparency in one of the most sensitive concessions on the city's waterfront.

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Just over two months have passed since last March 29, when Father Francesc Novella celebrated his last mass at the oratory of Sant Felip de Porreres. Since that day, the temple has kept its doors wide open, a situation that has gone from initial sadness to indignation and bewilderment among the faithful. The community, the vast majority of whom are elderly people, do not understand why the space remains inactive, even though the institutional promise was that it would reopen for worship more or less immediately.

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The trade of baker is one of those that have best resisted the passage of centuries, but it is also one of those that today faces the greatest difficulties in ensuring its continuity. The lack of generational renewal and the difficulties in finding staff have become a growing concern among traditional bakeries in the Balearic Islands, which see fewer and fewer people willing to learn a profession as demanding as it is rooted in the culture of the Islands.

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At all times it is relevant to read a praise of literature like the one Santiago Alba Rico makes in the pages of his latest book. He draws maps for us to travel to different “literary countries”, but he does not do so as a literary critic, but as a storyteller. It is the wonder of literature, books allow us to retell their stories again and again, sometimes faithfully, sometimes with betrayal. In fact, not ceasing to talk about books, including those written a long time ago, is what makes them continue to address us. Alba Rico puts six pairs of authors in dialogue, creating a kind of genealogy of his sensitivity as a reader. Kafka and Potter, Melville and Hergé, Dickens and Cervantes, Dostoevsky and Hašek, Shelley and McCullers, Austen and Proust. We have a book of books in our hands.

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Mallorca is one step closer to being able to limit the entry of vehicles to the island, after the plenary session of the Council approved the law regulating vehicle influx on Friday. The norm must go through Parliament to come into force and cannot be implemented this summer. The question here is whether the president of the insular institution, Llorenç Galmés, will have the law ready for next season, because the legislature could end without the popular leader fulfilling one of his most important commitments. Be that as it may, Mallorca continues to be stuck, as the Council acknowledges in the preamble to the law, where it points out that “the number of tourists Mallorca receives each year has not stopped growing” and that the island “suffers notable and growing pressure on its road structures”.

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The regulation of vehicle entry involves a dispute with a business dimension. The large multinationals in the sector, grouped under Baleval, have historically been the main beneficiaries of a market that has grown steadily in recent decades. According to data from this employers' association, a significant portion of the more than 100,000 rental cars circulating in Mallorca are theirs, a large part of them registered outside the Archipelago. Faced with the new regulation, these companies have expressed their rejection of the planned limits. On the other hand, small and medium-sized car rentals of island origin, grouped under AEVAB, have defended the need to set a ceiling to contain saturation and regulate the market.

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Anna Ruiz (Montuïri), an activist and nautical professional, was part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, an international initiative that aimed to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza and challenge the Israeli naval blockade. On April 30, her boat, the BribonA, was intercepted along with other vessels of the mission in international waters near Greece. Ruiz joined the flotilla in the midst of a war that, since October 2023, has caused the death of more than 72,000 Palestinians and displaced most of the population of the Strip. While Benjamin Netanyahu's government has announced its intention to expand military control over the enclave to 70%, the Majorcan activist asserts that she could not stand aside from the conflict. In this interview, she recounts how she experienced the interception, the aggressions she reports witnessing, and the role that, in her opinion, Western governments are playing in the face of the situation experienced by the Palestinian people.

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“It was a grey and rainy day; in the middle of a scrubland of strawberry trees and myrtles, my men had lost their way and we trod for a long time, before finding the path that leads from the Cave to Valldemossa” (What I know about Miramar, Archduke Ludwig Salvator, 1911). It was the month of September 1867 and the ‘prince, scientist and traveller’, as the scholar Helga Schwendinger defined him, had opted for the sea route to visit this town in the Tramuntana mountain range. He disembarked at the coast of Son Ferrandell, at the coastal spot known as Hort de la Cova d’en Claret. A place that the people of Valldemossa remember, above all, because three centuries earlier, on October 1, 1552, when precisely the Clarets owned what was later known as Son Ferrandell, which at that time also included Son Olesa and Vistamar, a fleet of 400 pirates disembarked there with the intention of sacking the town and capturing people to sell them as slaves or obtain a ransom.

]]> After eleven years of editorial silence – which in reality does not mean the poet has been quiet, as he himself makes clear in the magnificent prologue that serves as an introduction, since in reality all this time he has been brewing the event, waiting for the best moment and preparing for the explosion just like a good hunter – Emili Sánchez-Rubio publishes a new poetry book: Terres rares in the delightful collection La Fosca by Lleonard Muntaner, Editor. I want to say it right away: it is a colossal, visionary, prodigious work that confirms the author as one of the best of his generation. Therefore, we are faced with a return to the very top, an authentic renaissance, a resurgence that deserves all our attention and passion. Reading these pages illuminated by extreme wisdom, I have re-membered, returned things to the heart, according to the centennial Blai Bonet, how much the lyrical proposal of this prophet born in Ciutat de Mal in 1983 has always made me hallucinate, who has been a Necromancer and who now returns as an Alchemist or, even better, a Presocratic of the Future, an Oracular Scientist.Rare earths, as the title itself indicates, takes its name and atomic number from these elements that are very difficult to obtain and so poetic to, from their unfolding like a catalog of untamed matters in the style of Bartomeu Fiol, build the structure of the volume, which advances as we delve into the strange and precious fusion of entity and soul, of corpora and spirit. Recognizing chaos (in fact, the pages of this book are full of brutal oxymorons and paradoxes and contradictions) to unravel the cosmos, Emili Sánchez-Rubio shines in a verbal and philosophical way like Miquel Bauçà; as Andreu Vidal investigates the darkness to reach the conclusion that “in the Obscure, / all things are white”; he builds a foundational theory of Love following the example of the admired Robert Graves and secretes impossible images and real scenes, because in fact every poem is a legacy or a statement of incontinence, like the best disciple of the master and friend Emilio Arnao and achieves mystical genius that touches upon daily ardor and the epiphytic discovery of pure revelation: “The speed of light / is what it is / because it flees from Time.”Longer poems are combined with more synthetic poems in perfect balance, a brilliant cosmic balance that confirms the gifts of a brilliant and eloquent poet. The fascinating result, a pure fireball in the purest style of Bartomeu Rosselló-Pòrcel of our era, is an admirable cosmogonic theory that returns poetry to its place as an exceptional vehicle of visionary knowledge and seals it through a messianic expression. ‘Terres rares’, by Emili Sánchez-Rubio, is, and I say this without doubts or regrets, a sublime book in every sense.

]]> Often taking a step is not a simple task. However, doing so is necessary if we want to move forward collectively. Today, in Palma, in the Balearic Islands, and throughout the Catalan Countries and the state, we are living through difficult times. The threat of the far-right and an increasingly right-wing PP is absolute. That is why it is a moment for unity and courage, the terms that my tandem partner Xisca Mir and I have wanted to adopt as a slogan for the MÉS per Palma primaries. Unity and courage to win.We need the sovereignist left, represented by MÉS per Palma – the result of decades of work by different and valuable councilors: from Sebastià Serra, Nanda Ramon, Joan Perelló, Lila Thomàs, Tomeu Carrió, Maria Costa and Jordi López to Antoni Noguera, Marisol Fernández, Antoni Verger and Neus Truyol – to articulate an anti-fascist front that brings together all the Palma citizens who do not want our lives to be in the hands of characters like Fulgencio Coll and Jaime Martínez. I feel like an heir to the left-wing and green Mallorcanism people I have mentioned, yes, but also to wonderful anti-capitalist councilors who were part of Som Palma and Podem, such as Aligi Molina and Aurora Jhardi. I am presenting myself to lead a broad and generous candidacy where, precisely, Esquerra Unida, Sumar, Podem, the Socialist Movement and the Independent Left are also present in the form they deem appropriate. Because they are, fundamentally, our comrades. I want this list to be a starting point, a catalyst, embracing independent citizens who fight for housing, for the defense of small businesses, for the neighborhood movement – which I know well in the Santa Pagesa neighborhood –, for feminism, for the Catalan language movement, for culture, for unionism, and against social exclusion. There is room for everyone.Only with a brave, plural and united tool that generates enthusiasm can we focus the debate. And the debate is very clear: we must tackle people's real problems and their material solutions. If what affects us has collective causes, the response must undoubtedly be collective and in no case individual. The people of Palma do not make ends meet, they have nowhere to live, they suffer from precarious jobs, they see how the city and its corners no longer belong to them and they live with pain the linguistic, cultural, heritage and commercial depersonalization of the capital of Mallorca. We must fight with conviction the terrible effects that unbridled tourism and the business of a few friends of the right leave in our lives. The current critical situation of the city and the times we live in demand forcefulness and radicality in the etymological sense of the term that I know as a Latin professor. People need proposals and a hard, cheerful and uninhibited political action. To break free from the frameworks that the extreme right wants to impose on us: those who harm the people of Palma are not someone with an Arab, Asian or sub-Saharan name, poor and with dark skin, but vulture funds, international extractive capitalism and the worst rent-seeking tied to the PP and Vox, who have no empathy or sensitivity for families, youth and workers.There is hope. I see municipalist role models across Europe, in the south and the north, that inspire me: Die Linke, in German cities; Adelante Andalucía; La France Insoumise; Plaid Cymru, in Wales; Sinn Féin, in Ireland; and the Green Party, in England. Brave left-wing movements, rooted in the territory and that face 21st-century urban problems head-on. The historical moment demands courage and decisiveness from us.I am 45 years old. I have been active in social movements my whole life. I know the street. I know Palma and our neighborhoods. I will lead the MÉS per Palma candidacy, aware that it will be the first time an independent person does so in the long history of the parties that form this space. Someone who is not an organic part of MÉS nor of the traditions that compose it (PSM, Iniciativa Verds, and ERC). It is an opportunity to grow, to face the new times ahead with freshness, and to do so, in the words of Manuel Monereo, by confronting the great issue that will shape the urban future of our days: “What is at stake is the soul of the working class.” And if one thing is clear to me, it is that in May 2027, the soul of the popular classes of the city that saw the biographies of the neighborhood activist Rosa Bueno and the poet Josep Maria Llompart develop cannot, in any way, be conquered by the obscurantism of PP and Vox.

]]> Although Robert Prevost was elected pope just over a year ago, the public presence of Leo XIV has been a surprise to many. His start was discreet and his demeanor, prudent, very different from the spontaneous and somewhat excessive character of Francis, led many to believe he would be a transitional pontiff who would diminish the political and media weight of the Church. However, after a few months, this perception began to change and, in part, it was thanks to a compatriot of his: Donald Trump.

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