Fight in the Consell de Mallorca over sanctions for illegal tourist rentals

The PSOE claims that the Tourism Minister of the Mallorcan Council, Marcial Rodríguez, inflates the figures for the fines his department imposed on illegal tourist rentals last year. They claim that the 8.3 million euros the PP attributed to the initial 2024 fine proposals include all the fines imposed by the island's institution, not just those from last year. "in evidence", stated the PSOE in a statement.

For its part, the people maintain that the 8.3 million correspond to the proposal for initial sanctions in 2024. But they admit that in this quantity it is also possible to include sanction files that have been processed from d'actes that it is varen obrir in previous years. Tot i això, note that after drafting the fines, notifying them and the allegations made, the initial 8.3 million are reduced to 4.6 million euros.

Agreement with Airbnb

On the other hand, the PSOE councilor, Juana Maria Adrover, pointed out "the ineffectiveness" of Rodríguez's management and gave the example of the agreement between the Consell de Mallorca and the marketing platform AirbnbThe agreement includes the removal of 130 illegal rental listings from the website and also requires the license number for each accommodation unit to be displayed.

Adrover described the agreement as "absolutely unnecessary from a regulatory perspective, because the law already requires all platforms to display the tourist registration number on each listing." Along the same lines, she considered that "Rodríguez should require tourist rental platforms to comply with the law, not sign goodwill agreements to whitewash them."

The Socialist referred to a summer of "chaos and full of people dragging suitcases up and down apartments located in multi-family buildings, while Rodríguez remains entangled in a philosophical dialectic that affects internal organization, but does not advance toward overcrowding in the middle of the high season."