The Balearic model is to never touch anything.

When the Balearic PP regained power, it was clear that Catalan and education had to be left alone, because they didn't represent a problem and because José Ramón Bauzá's electoral catastrophe shouldn't be repeated. The fear stemmed from Vox's obsession with their own language and culture. And these fears were reasonable, given the far-right's history of attacks and Prohens's balancing act. However, there was another issue that threw the PP off balance upon taking office: the saturation and outcry over tourism and over-tourism.

Neither the president nor her team dared to question this vision, because they understood the outcry. Moreover, the demonstrations channeled the tension. The government immediately launched the Pact for Sustainability and adopted the "we can't go any further" narrative.

The story has ended as it so often does. Once the initial outrage subsided, the debate dragged on endlessly, and the government took no action beyond counting people on the beaches, as if it were necessary.

What is the reason for this ending? Many. One is that, like everything else, social and citizen movements are also ephemeral. Activism lasts for a day. There has been no capacity to maintain the pressure. And this speaks not only to the citizen movement, which is not at its best and spends its time giving lectures, but also to a new way of life: promiscuous and without commitment.

Prohens had two options: roll up her sleeves or form a committee and wait for the anger to subside. It's obvious which one she chose. Politics today is more than ever about improvisation: seeing which way the wind blows and stating the obvious. The Balearic model is to do nothing.