The PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) demands that Martínez prohibit construction on rural land because it "will destroy the city."

The PSOE is demanding that the mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, prohibit construction on rural land. This is stated in the motion that the Socialists will present to the next plenary session in July, with the aim of preventing the development of rural land. Transition Areas (TA), which have become developable after a agreement in Parliament between the Popular Party and Vox.

The PSOE spokesperson in Palma City Council, Xisco Ducrós, considered that this regulation "will destroy the city" and described it as "an outrage." Along the same lines, he also added that "on a speculative whim, the PP and Vox have turned rural land into urban development," a group of developers.

For this reason, the socialists will also request that the agenda of meetings held by the mayor of Palma and the Councilor for Urban Planning, Óscar Fidalgo, be made public to see which developers and land owners they have met with.

According to the calculations they have made, the land used for strategic residential projects will allow the development of, as Ducrós has announced, "403 hectares, which will affect 15 neighborhoods and, where about 60,000 people live now, up to 90,000 more people will be able to live there, which represents an increase of 153%." ~BK_SLT_L

Ducrós recalled that Palma is experiencing "a residential emergency" for which "real solutions are needed now." He also pointed out that 2024 saw a rise in rental prices of "almost 10%" and noted that during the first quarter of 2025 they rose by approximately "11%."

In his opinion, "Palma does not need land speculation, nor rural construction, but rather solutions to lower rental and purchase prices." He proposed that alternatives to the problem include applying the state Housing Law and limiting rental prices, or developing the General Plan approved during the last term.

For his part, Councilor Pepe Martínez has asked the Cort government team to explain the measure. "There are only three options, all of them bad: either they made the law without knowing who it affects; or they know it, but the people in Parliament haven't explained it in Palma; or they know it and are hiding it from the public," he concluded.