The plenary session of the Consell de Ibiza approved this Friday a motion of support for the island’s self-employed workers, in response to the growing unease of the group in the face of the announced increase in contributions planned by the central government for 2026.
The proposal, promoted by the government team of the Popular Party, was supported by the Popular Party and the Mixed Group, although it was rejected by the Socialist Group, which voted against on all points.
The agreement comes on the eve of the mobilization called this Sunday, November 30, when thousands of self-employed will take to the streets throughout Spain. In the case of Ibiza, the march will leave at 11:00 from the Parque de la Paz to Vara de Rey, where a collective manifesto will be read.
The text denounces the “structural cost overruns” faced by the collective on the island.
In the approved motion, the Consell warns about the particularities that aggravate the situation of the self-employed in Ibiza, such as insularity, tourist seasonality, structural cost overruns and economic volatility.
The institution demands that the planned increase in quotas be halted, that the social protection of the group be improved and that the special VAT regime provided for in European regulations be fully implemented.
“These circumstances directly affect the competitiveness and continuity of many economic activities on the island,” the approved text states.
The Consell calls for more conciliation, less bureaucracy and specific aids
The motion also proposes specific measures to improve the conditions of this group: reconciliation of work and family life, subsidies from the age of 52, breastfeeding, improvements in medical leave and reduction of bureaucracy.
It is also recalled that support for the self-employed is key to “social cohesion and economic diversification of Ibiza“, according to the institutional declaration.
Currently, there are more than 16,000 people affiliated to the special self-employed regime on the island, many of them working in sensitive sectors such as catering, transport, commerce or small industry.
Ibiza mobilizes: the Consell and the street, with the same message
The institutional declaration comes in full social effervescence, just 48 hours after the mobilization called by the Platform for the Dignity of the Self-Employed, driven by three entrepreneurs of the island.
“They are suffocating us with taxes and without aid,” they denounce in the video, in which several workers tell how they have had to close businesses, go to soup kitchens or assume losses due to uncovered illnesses.
