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The proposal places the Balearic Islands above the state average in financing per adjusted inhabitant, according to the calculations transferred by the Spanish Government, although the Government maintains that the model does not correct the structural imbalances of the archipelago and puts its fiscal autonomy at risk.

More funding linked to adjusted population

The Government Delegation in the Balearic Islands argues that the new model introduces variables that specifically benefit the archipelago, such as insularity and the fixed costs derived from territorial fragmentation. These criteria correct the current system, in which the Balearic Islands is below the average in funding per inhabitant.

In addition, the Ministry’s approach incorporates the IVA Pymes mechanism, which recognizes the weight of small and medium-sized companies in the Balearic economy, as well as a new climate fund, endowed with around 1,000 million euros, of which the Balearic Islands would be one of the beneficiary communities.

The use of resources and the message to the Govern

The delegate of the Government in the Balearic Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez, has stressed that the increase in funding would allow the reinforcement of essential public services, such as housing, health or dependence. » 412 million more per year are enough for many public policies», he pointed out, recalling that the central government does not impose a specific destination for the funds, but trusts in the autonomous management.

Rodríguez warned that renouncing to take advantage of these resources would be detrimental to citizens, and asked the Govern not to automatically reject an improvement in funding, appealing to prioritize the interests of the Balearic Islands in the state debate.

Government’s outright rejection and judicial threat

The reaction of the Government has been immediate and forceful. The Minister of Economy, Finance and Innovation, Antoni Costa, has described the proposal as «horrendous» and has warned that the Balearic Executive will go to court if the new system forces to raise taxes in the community .

For the Govern, the possible imposition of limits to the so-called fiscal dumping is a red line, especially in relation to inheritance and gift tax. Costa has assured that the autonomic Executive does not negotiate concrete figures, but a model that defends the structural interests of the Balearic Islands.

Criticism of the negotiation and loss of weight of insularity

The Govern also questions the content and method of negotiation of the new model, considering that it does not incorporate key variables such as the floating population or demographic growth, while reducing the weight of insularity in the distribution.

In addition, the Balearic Executive has denounced the fact that the principle of ordinality is only applied to Catalonia, and has criticized the fact that the negotiation of the system has been linked to bilateral agreements, instead of being approached multilaterally among all the communities.

Prohens sets fiscal autonomy as a red line

The president of the Government, Marga Prohens, has reinforced the political rejection of the model by accusing the Spanish Government of «mistreating» the Balearic Islands with a proposal that, in her opinion, does not address any of the historical claims of the archipelago.

Prohens has placed fiscal autonomy as the main insurmountable limit of the Govern, warning that any attempt to recover eliminated taxes would contravene the will expressed by the citizens at the polls. The president has assured that the Balearic Executive will use all political and legal means at its disposal to defend the interests of the community.

The proposal for regional financing must now be debated in the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council, where the communities will be able to present their positions before the model reaches Congress. The confrontation between the Govern and the central government anticipates a complex negotiation, with taxation and the territorial distribution of resources at the core of the conflict.

La entrada Institutional clash over regional funding despite increase in resources for the Balearic Islands se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• Ibiza, at the center of the battle: cab warns that approving 6,500 VTC would be «a hecatomb», denounces «mafia» and points to Uber

The law itself recognizes the magnitude of the problem: in 2023 alone, more than 10,000 VTC applications were submitted in the Balearic Islands, compared to a current fleet of 2,529 cab licenses and 739 VTC licenses, a figure that the preamble of the regulation describes as «totally disproportionate and environmentally unsustainable». The Government has repeated this diagnosis in recent weeks, in an attempt to give relief to the cab sector.

A good part of these petitions -according to cab drivers, some 6,500 in Ibiza and 3,500 in Mallorca-are promoted by large business groups that already control thousands of licenses in other communities.

The moratorium approved by Law 1/2024 and later extended by decree law keeps frozen, for now, the granting of new cab and VTC licenses until the regulation becomes a reality.

What changes with the new regulation

The fifth and most recent draft of the regulation draws a board with several pieces, but a central idea: without prior passage through the municipalities, there will be no new VTCs on the street.

1. Town halls as the first key filter In order to be able to work normally, each VTC will need, in general, an urban authorization from the town hall of the municipality where the vehicle is domiciled and, later, the interurban authorization from the corresponding island council. This makes the consistories the first filter of the system: they are the ones who will have to decide whether to create urban VTC licenses, how many, under what conditions and in what terms. In addition, the draft establishes that the municipal ordinances that regulate urban transport must be adapted to the new framework within a maximum period of one year after the decree enters into force. Until then they will remain in force as long as they do not contradict the regulation.

2. In a transitional provision, the Ministry of Mobility is charged with setting, within a maximum period of fifteen days from the entry into force of the decree, the number of interurban authorizations (cabs and VTC) that may be granted on each island, according to the general criteria of Article 4: Human Pressure Index, weight of tourism, public transport network, major infrastructure, environmental impact, road congestion, etc.. This first figure may be assumed or adjusted by the island councils within one month.

3. Reinforced role of the councils Once the ceilings are set, the councils will be the ones to grant interurban VTC authorizations within the maximum quota assigned for their island. On the ground, this means that they will only be able to grant new authorizations if they fit within the fixed ceiling and if, in addition, there is the corresponding license or urban authorization in the municipality where the vehicle is domiciled.

In parallel, the regulation enshrines the principle of «each VTC on its own island»: authorizations domiciled in the Balearic Islands will be able to provide intercity services only within the territory of the island where they are domiciled, once the transition between the current regime and the new one has been completed.

In the case of Ibiza, where there is already a special regime of passenger collection that affects the entire island, the Agrupación de Autotaxis de Baleares has recalled in its allegations that the studies of licensing needs are still only done at the municipal level and claims that this «anomaly» is corrected, aligning the regulation with the opinions of the Consell Consultiu on the island competences.

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The one-month window for «moving» licenses

One of the most sensitive points for Ibiza is in the third transitional provision of the draft. During the first month from the entry into force of the decree, holders of VTC licenses in force in the Balearic Islands may request the change of address of their license to another island other than the current one, provided that they can prove previous services in the community.

The fourth transitory provision establishes that the processing of new cab and VTC licenses and authorizations cannot begin until these changes of domicile have been made and it has been determined how many interurban authorizations are still in force on each island.

If, after these changes of domicile, the maximum number of authorizations set for an island is exceeded, the decree itself provides that the licenses that have served the least amount of time in that territory will be denied transfer.

On paper, the mechanism seeks to order a situation that today allows many VTCs to operate indiscriminately between islands. In practice, various players in the sector view this window with suspicion because of the risk that part of the fleets may try to concentrate on the most profitable islands, such as Ibiza, before the quotas are definitively closed.

And the 10,000 applications (and those that have been added)?

The big unknown is what will happen to the applications filed before and after Law 1/2024. The law suspended the granting of new cab and VTC licenses, but did not prevent requests from continuing to be registered. Those files remained in a sort of freezer while waiting for the regulation, which now establishes that those affected by the moratorium will have preference in the first calls for applications to be called within the new quota per island.

La Voz de Ibiza has asked the Govern how many VTC applications have been submitted in 2024 and 2025 -that is, after the entry into force of Law 1/2024-, but the Executive has not yet provided this data, key to understand what real volume may try to slip through the cracks of the new framework.

Nor has it specified when the regulation is expected to be finally approved. The process has been lengthened after the Consell Consultiu forced to reopen the public information process after considering that the text had changed substantially with respect to the initial version, which has added months to the calendar.

In this context, the recent ruling of the TSJIB adds another layer: it obliges to process again 600 applications from 2022-2023 «according to the regulations applicable at the time of the application». This pushes to examine case by case and opens the door for other files to follow that path if the courts conclude that they were rejected with similar criteria.

An open board… with Ibiza at its center

As of today, the official message is clear: the Govern considers that authorizing 10,000 new VTCs would be «barbaric» and assures that only licenses that «the territory can absorb» will be granted. At the same time, it claims legal certainty in order not to chain new sentences like the one of the 600 VTCs.

But the real game will be played not only in Palma, but also – and above all – in the island councils and town halls, which will have to set quotas, adapt ordinances and, in practice, decide how many black cars – and how many cabs – will fit on the streets of Ibiza in the coming years.

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La entrada New cab and VTC regulations in Ibiza: municipalities will hold the key to the future of the thousands of Uber applications. se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• Parlament presses the Government to stop the ‘nautical Airbnb’ in Ibiza and Formentera

• The Government downplays the importance of the ‘nautical Airbnb’ and says that in the Balearic Islands there are only two applications

The regulation approved by the Executive of Pedro Sanchez allows since the beginning of the year that owners of boats for private use can rent their boats for a maximum of three months a year for tourist purposes. The measure, announced in July 2025, has unleashed an institutional clash between the two administrations that is now being settled in court.

The Balearic Government responded with a express modification of the autonomous decree of nautical charter to block this to block this possibility, even when requesting a temporary change of use.

President Marga Prohens then defended that the State intends to «impose a model that ignores the reality of the island«, a reaction supported by municipalities, the Consell de Ibiza and the marine industry, which has come to describe the state rule as «a time bomb« by the expected increase in uncontrolled activity.

For his part, the general director of Maritime Transport, Antoni Mercant, has warned that the owners of recreational boats that join the tourist rental could lose their moorings in the could lose their moorings in the ports of direct management, as in the case of Sant Antoni, and has proposed to rediscuss fees with the awardees of indirect management.

Two open judicial fronts

In addition to the appeal filed by the central government, the Govern has confirmed the existence of a second lawsuit filed by listaséptima.com, the main platform of the so-called ‘nautical Airbnb’ in Spain, which already operates based in the Islands.

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«The Government Delegation notified us of a claim for invasion of competences; we answered it in due time and form, and now they have opted for the judicial route. There are no precautionary measures issued. If a judge orders to modify the decree, we will do it, but in the meantime we will defend the Balearic regulations, which have the support of the sector», Mercant explained to Menorca Info.

Mercant has denounced that the state regulatory change responds to pressures from private interests: «The Government surrenders to the interests of a real estate company in Madrid: listaséptima.com«, he said.

In his opinion, this legalization is an «unusual» precedent and encourages speculation on the maritime public domain: «There is no need to add more boats to the leasing market in the Balearic Islands,» he said.

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La entrada War over ‘nautical Airbnb’ erupts in court se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• Vicent Marí’s hard hand on housing: downsizing, residents first, housing for workers and zero tolerance for squatters in Ibiza

In addition to setting limits to growth in order to avoid a situation of collapse, the island president, Vicent Marí, has gone into the search for the necessary legal tools to «curb» the construction of free housing, which usually end up in the hands of foreigners due to the out-of-reach values of Ibizans.

And one of the bets is precisely the Limited Price Housing. That is, a type of subsidized housing that is not subject to direct public subsidies, but is subject to amaximum sale or rental price set by the administration.

«What is proposed would be to promote more private housing at a limited price for residents, as the VPL,» have recognized from the Consell a La Voz de Ibiza.

Along these lines, they remarked that «it is a measure that needs to be analyzed«.

This is an intermediate category between free housing and subsidized housing (VPO). Of the latter, there are several projects in the pipeline in Ibiza, although the timing and progress do not coincide with the urgency of the housing crisis.

In private hands

With below-market prices, the VPLs seek to promote access to housing in areas where the real estate market is under pressure, without direct government intervention in the form of subsidies, but through price regulation.

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In return, developers usually benefit from urban planning advantages -such as increasing the buildability and use of plots- or tax advantages that make this type of investment attractive.

The public administrations set a maximum price per square meter, both for sale and for rent, while the buyer must use the property as a habitual and permanent residence, at least for a certain period of time. In the meantime, it cannot be sold or rented freely for a period of time if it is not at the limited price.

Current regulations

Law 3/2024, of May 3, on urgent housing measures, establishes the possibility of creating more affordable residential supply with regulated maximum sale and rental prices.

Article 2 creates a new figure, which is the limited price housing (VPL), «of a permanent nature, which has as its most important characteristic a limitation of its maximum purchase and rental price».

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This proposal «is fundamentally a housing that, in addition to the price limitation, has other conditions that differentiate it from an ordinary free housing, such as the limitation to a maximum surface area of 90 sq. m., the use as the habitual and permanent residence of the users or beneficiaries, and that they cannot be holders of full ownership or of a real right of use and enjoyment over any free housing or housing subject to any protection regime, located in the Spanish State».

The regulation establishes that the VPL «must constitute the habitual and permanent domicile of its users or beneficiaries, and in no case may they be marketed under the tourist stay modality provided for in the tourism legislation».

In order to have access to limited price housing, in any of the modalities of access to these dwellings, «the beneficiary must be a natural person of legal age, resident in the Balearic Islands, and may not be the holder of full ownership or of a real right of use and enjoyment over more than 50% of any free housing or housing subject to any protection regime, unless the housing becomes unsuitable for personal or family circumstances or other objective circumstances duly accredited».

In addition, it establishes that «the term during which these dwellings will be subject to the established limitations and will maintain the status of price-limited housing will be permanent».

The first cases in the Balearic Islands

This has led to the development of different projects. For example, in the town of Manacor in Mallorca, the first complete development of affordable housing has been inaugurated, the result of the transformation of spaces that were not previously residential (for example, former commercial premises) into 10 affordable apartments for residents.

The purchase prices of these homes are between approximately 119,000 and 164,000 euros, which makes them very different from the traditional free market in the Balearic Islands.

In the neighborhood of Es Pil-larí, in Palma, the Government is building VPL promotions as part of the housing shock plan. The project includes 88 new homes, with apartments that are part of this affordable figure, with prices ranging from about 169,000 to 275,000 euros, depending on the surfaces.

The example of Santa Eulària

One of the first examples of this type of action in Ibiza is in Santa Eulària des Riu, where the City Council has awarded the UTE formed by the Fundació Privada Salas per l’Accessibilitat and Salas Promohabit S.L.U. the construction of a 90-housing development intended entirely for rent in the area of s’Olivera, in Puig d’en Valls.

The project, with a total investment of 21.09 million euros (VAT included), will be developed on two municipally-owned plots of land that the City Council will transfer by means of a 75-year surface right, so that, once this period is over, both the land and the buildings will revert to the municipal patrimony. Construction is scheduled to begin in June 2026, with an approximate completion period of 31 months and an estimated delivery date of January 2028.

The mayor of Santa Eulària des Riu, Carmen Ferrer, stressed that this award is «another step in the commitment of the City Council to expand the supply of affordable housing and ensure that residents can develop their life project here». The action is part of the municipal plan ‘Santa Eulària Crea Futur’, aimed at facilitating access to housing for young people, seniors and families through sustainable and public management formulas.

Access requirements

To qualify for one of these homes, it will be necessary to meet three general requirements: to be a tax resident in Spain, not to own any property in the country and to be registered in Santa Eulària des Riu for at least 10 years of the last 20 years. From that threshold, half an additional point will be awarded for each year of residence, up to a maximum of five points.

The ranking system prioritizes young people, senior citizens and families. In the case of family units, one point will be added for each dependent minor. In addition, seven additional points will be granted to applicants between 25 and 40 years of age or over 65 years of age. Access to housing will also be subject to minimum and maximum annual gross income limits, set between three and ten times the IPREM, depending on the type of housing.

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La entrada Limited-price housing, Ibiza’s bid to develop the housing market for residents se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

He has done so from the institution with the least competences in the matter and taking an obvious political risk, a few months before the May 2027 elections, by putting on the table measures that break with the classical liberal ideology of his party and that involve intervening in the real estate market.

It has much to lose and little to gain in a move that breaks with the short-termism that characterizes the political class of recent times. In a way, he is repeating the move to limit the entry of vehicles and setting the pace of the discourse of the Balearic PP.

The move was not improvised. Marí intentionally took advantage of the traditional end-of-year interviews granted to Diario de Ibiza and Periódico de Ibiza y Formentera to launch messages of high political voltage -urban moratorium, although he was careful not to use a term that raises blisters among his ranks, limits to growth, residents first, Limited Price Housing- with a clear objective: to take the bull by the horns .

In his institutional speech recorded in Sa Coma he already slipped some ideas, but without as much depth as the limitation to the construction of free housing.

No closed plan, but with a calculated maneuver

Sources close to the president insist that there is no plan designed nor a closed package of measures behind these statements. There is no timetable or definitive roadmap. What does exist is a conscious political maneuver that forces all the agents involved to take a position: city councils, professional sectors, political parties and higher administrations.

The reaction has been immediate. The PSOE of Ibiza has accused Marí of inoperativeness and of launching «empty words», being dismayed by a speech that was not expected from the PP.

United Podemos and Vox, on the other hand, have not made any statement so far.

In parallel, some city councils have shown their willingness to explore a possible urban moratorium, while architects and builders have expressed their outright rejection of any suspension of free housing, as reported by Periódico de Ibiza.

After Reyes, contacts with social agents and opinion leaders will be intensified. There will also be collective meetings through the social dialogue mechanisms.

Housing for local people

The need that Vicent Marí has referred to is to provide housing for residents. He has not been the only one. Coincidence or not, in her New Year’s institutional speech, the president of the Balearic Government, Marga Prohens, placed as a priority the need to guarantee housing for local people.

And the housing problem no longer affects only vulnerable groups, but increasingly residents, middle class families, skilled workers and young people born or rooted on the island who can not live where they work. Ibizans who can not return or Ibizans who leave.

A market misaligned with the island’s reality

The diagnosis handled by the president of the Consell is shared by many of the actors involved: housing can jeopardize the successful model of Ibiza.

Free housing is nowadays accessible almost exclusively to the upper classes from countries with a higher per capita income, and in many cases it becomes a second residence.

The prohibitive cost of land, the high construction costs and the legitimate expectations of the promoters make the prices of apartments go through the roof. Both for buying and renting.

The luxury housing that is being built does not solve the housing problem and, far from relieving the pressure, consumes resources and public services – water, health, security – for which the island has neither sufficient capacity nor a stable labor force.

The debate, sources familiar with the Consell’s approach underline, is not about nationalities, but about real use and roots: in a limited territory, every house that is not destined to habitual residence is one less house for those who live and work in Ibiza. And there are problems to find labor, both qualified and unqualified. And unworthy shantytowns, also in winter.

All sectors are suffering from a lack of labor due to the increased needs that have resulted from the transformation of the island towards a model of visitor with greater purchasing power. The increase in the category of hotels, restaurants and nightclubs has meant a greater demand for labor. And for more months.

This reality also affects teachers, health care providers and security forces.

For this reason, the president’s slap on the wrist has affected businessmen and public administrations.

A physical limit and a clear warning

There is a generalized idea that the market is not capable of solving the problem on its own and that unlimited growth is not possible because this only makes the problem worse, since the housing that is built does not meet the needs.

For this reason, the president spoke of limiting the construction of free housing and prioritizing Affordable Housing.

Beyond the price or urban planning, there is a factor that conditions any scenario and that cannot be ignored: Ibiza does not have water to continue growing. The proof is the imposition of Water Resources to the growth contemplated in the General Urban Development Plan (PGOU) of the city of Ibiza.

The solution, via a fourth desalination plant, will take a long time. A decade is the estimated time for it to come into service.

Illegal tourist rentals

Measures such as the fight against illegal tourist rentals, although necessary, have not had a significant effect on the residential market on their own. In a way, it has been a disappointment, since there were high hopes that these homes would be destined for the residential market, something that, at least for the time being, has not been the case.

It cannot be overlooked that the difficulty in attracting workers ends up causing an inflationary spiral that reduces the competitiveness of the destination, since labor costs increase through salaries or through housing paid by the employer. And it feeds tourism-phobia, another risk to be taken into account.

Not to mention the barrier to importing talent that has the ability to decide where to work.

The competence labyrinth

The debate is also taking place in a complex legal and jurisdictional framework. The European Union does not allow prohibiting the purchase of homes by EU citizens or applying discriminatory tax measures.

Municipalities are responsible for urban planning through general plans and subsidiary regulations, which take years to change. They can also increase heights and facilitate the conversion of premises into dwellings.

The Consell can act on the PTI, but it is the tool with the least real impact on this problem.

The Balearic Parliament has the margin to modify the Housing Law and the Government to approve decrees, while the central Government, with a great capacity for intervention, remains practically absent from the debate, weighed down by its parliamentary weakness and by an ideological approach centered on the tenant versus the landlord and which avoids reinforcing legal security in the face of non-payment and squatting so that vacant housing can be put on the residential rental market.

The housing problem is not exclusive to Ibiza, although in peninsular territories the perfect storm does not occur, since it is always possible to build a few kilometers further away from the city center for popular classes as it has been done all my life. This is one more issue on Pedro Sánchez’s table.

Here the role of the Consell de Ibiza is more political than effective. It is the government of the island but without regulatory capacity or competences.

What is and what is not on the table

According to La Voz de Ibiza, the presidentdoes not plan to intervene in the single-family or multi-family housing market in certain high purchasing power areas.

The focus is on the residential market where it is still possible to act and, especially, on the need to build housing for the middle class, both for rental and purchase.

The administration, Marí assumes, cannot solve the problem alone. That the IBAVI builds rental housing for the most disadvantaged groups is necessary, essential in fact, but absolutely insufficient. The vacuum is in the middle class, expelled from the free market completely and to which the administration is not giving answers.

In fact, it is incapable of responding alone. It needs the involvement of developers and builders, sectors that have to make money by building blocks of subsidized housing.

An uncomfortable but unavoidable debate

Although he has not said so publicly and the president is reluctant to do so, all roads lead to a moratorium on free housing so that the resources of the construction sector can be focused on the construction of Limited Price Housing in plots qualified as such or requalified and in transition zones, as provided for in the regional regulations approved by the Government of Marga Prohens.

La entrada Vicent Marí enters the pool of the housing crisis in Ibiza without having competences and at the risk of raising blisters in the PP. se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

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The new entity will be attached to the Conselleria de Presidencia and will have transversal competences to act in priority areas such as tourism, transport, commerce and leisure.

The creation of the Bureau was announced by the Minister of Tourism, Jaume Bauzà, during the last edition of the World Travel Market. World Travel Marketand is intended as a tool to evaluate the impact of intrusion, promote technical studies, improve regulations and strengthen coordination between public and private administrations.

In addition, the body will promote effective measures and policies against this problem, which affects various economic sectors of the archipelago.

Ibiza’s experience has been key for the design of the new autonomic organism, as recognized by the Govern itself to the media Última Hora. On the island, the Consell insular (Island Council) set up its own anti-intrusionism committee, focusing on the illegal transport of passengers, both by road and by sea. As a result, the presence of pirate cabs at the airport was significantly reduced.

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With this move, the Executive presided by Marga Prohens takes a step towards the homogenization of intrusion control policies throughout the Balearic Islands, with a clear commitment to export the Ibizan model and extend its application to new sectors and areas of competence.

The Ibiza Table Against Intrusiveness

Established on April 1, the Ibiza Table against Intrusiveness was defined as a forum for dialogue and debate to address, with all the agents involved, the problems derived from the illegal supply on the island, both in tourist accommodation and transport.

There are the Balearic Government, the five municipalities of the island, the Government Delegation, representatives of the Guardia Civil and National Police, representatives of the hotel and economic employers of the island, trade unions, and the main digital platforms for tourist accommodation: Airbnb, Booking, Holidu and the APAT Association.

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«The figures confirm that the fight against intrusion is working,» defended the president of the Consell, Vicent Marí, during the World Travel Market (WTM) in London. «Many tourists who used to choose the irregular offer are now opting for regulated hotels,» he added.

According to the Ibestat report, every day in August between 18,000 and 20,000 people have been in Ibiza less than last year. In parallel, the hotel occupancy survey of the Federation of Ibiza and Formentera points to an increase in the same month of almost 1% and an increase in the resident population of more than 2,000 people.

Inspections by the Consell and SITEibiza have identified and eliminated more than 14,500 places of illegal tourist accommodation. According to the insular executive, this reduction of the irregular market contributes to reduce the population pressure in peak months, while improving the quality of the legal offer.

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As explained by the Ministry of the Presidency, Coordination of Government Action and Local Cooperation, the premiere of the program in Ibiza will have a special security and prevention device, designed specifically for this massive celebration and agreed between the various administrations involved.

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Police coordination and institutional commitment

The plan of objectives of the festival has been agreed and signed by the Ibiza Local Police Headquarters and the Institute of Public Safety of the Balearic Islands (ISPIB), an agreement that ensures operational coordination and institutional commitment to implement the measures provided for in the program Fiestas Seguras.

This coordination will strengthen the prevention of incidents and improve the response to possible risks, on a night when thousands of people gather in the center of Ibiza to say goodbye to the year.

Pioneering training on responsible alcohol dispensing

One of the main novelties of the program in Ibiza is the implementation, for the first time, of specific training in responsible alcohol dispensing aimed at non-professional vendors and dispensers. These are the staff who work occasionally at the bars of popular festivals, a key group in the prevention of abusive consumption.

This training will not be an isolated action, as the Government plans to extend it to all parties that join the Safe Parties program in the future, consolidating a stable preventive model.

On the occasion of New Year’s Eve, a pilot training entitled «Responsible dispensing of alcohol», organized by the Plan for Addictions and Drug Addiction of the Balearic Islands (Padib) of the Ministry of Health, together with the Center for Studies and Prevention of Addictive Behaviors of the Consell de Baleares, will also be held on Monday.

• Santa Eulària extends New Year’s Eve with a youth party designed for the whole family

Prohibition of minors and practical tools

The course addresses key issues such as the absolute prohibition of serving alcohol to minors, the refusal to dispense alcoholic beverages to intoxicated persons and how to say no properly and safely, as well as offering practical tools for bar staff.

This pilot experience, according to the Government, is intended to be expanded in the future with training actions of greater scope, thus reinforcing the educational component of the program.

Integral security and prevention system

In addition to training, the Fiestas Seguras program includes for this New Year’s Eve in Ibiza -and for the rest of the celebrations adhered- a wide range of preventive measures. Among them, the delivery of informative material on the prohibition of alcohol sales to minors, the review of the security measures of the nearby premises, the presence of Civil Protection and contracted health care.

Private security will also be provided to reinforce control, as well as the installation of a support point against sexual aggressions, one of the program’s priority lines. In addition, a preventive video will be produced and disseminated on social networks.

«No party without security»

During the presentation of the program in Ibiza, Mayor Rafa Triguero stressed that New Year’s Eve is one of the most crowded events of the year in the city and defended that «there is no party without security».

According to Triguero, this program will make it possible to anticipate risks, better coordinate all services and send a clear message to citizens: «In Ibiza we want open and fun parties, but also safe, respectful and well organized, with the joint commitment of all administrations».

26 adhered municipalities, four of them in Ibiza

The Fiestas Seguras program will be widely implemented in 2026, following the success of three pilot experiences held at the Firó de Sóller, Sant Joan in Ciutadella and the Patrona de Pollença. As a result of these results, 26 municipalities in the Balearic Islands have already joined the initiative.

Among them are four municipalities of Ibiza: Sant Antoni de Portmany, Sant Joan de Labritja, Sant Josep de sa Talaia and Ibiza, which places the island as one of the territories with greater involvement in the deployment of the program.

From the Govern stress that the adhesion of these 26 municipalities shows the good reception of the model, as well as the commitment of the municipalities to strengthen public safety and public tranquility in major celebrations.

La entrada Ibiza launches on New Year’s Eve a special device for safer parties se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

The Popular Party has registered in the Parliament a Proposition Not of Law (PNL) to urge the president of the Congress of Deputies, the socialist Francina Armengol, to immediately unblock the Proposition of Organic Law against the illegal occupation of homes and premises, approved in the Senate and paralyzed since February 2024.

PP accuses Armengol of «blocking» the protection of property owners

In a press release, the PP spokesman in the Parliament, Sebastià Sagreras, argues that Armengol is blocking a rule that «protects owners and neighbors» and denounces that this situation leaves thousands of citizens unprotected while increasing cases of illegal squatting and ‘inquiokupación’ in the Balearic Islands.

According to the PP, the law promoted in the Senate would make it possible to speed up evictions in a period of up to 24 hours, strengthen criminal sanctions and apply complementary measures such as the prohibition of registering in occupied dwellings and tax benefits for those affected.

«The legitimate effort of families to access housing cannot be violated by squatting and the passivity of those who have the obligation to process the law,» says Sagreras, who insists that the initiative does not question social housing policies, but seeks to protect those who comply with the law.

Marí: «Without clear rules, the small owner will not rent again».

The PP’s criticisms coincide with the diagnosis expressed by Vicent Marí in interviews published on Sunday in Diario de Ibiza and Periódico de Ibiza y Formentera, in which he directly links the lack of legal security with the withdrawal of homes from the rental market in Ibiza.

«The solution is not only to build more, but also for empty homes or those that disappear from the illegal market to be used again for residential rental. For this, it is essential that there is legal certainty,» says the president of the Consell.

Marí warns that, without clear rules that allow evicting a property in case of occupation or non-payment, many small owners with bad experiences choose not to rent: «If there is no legal framework that prevents them from taking years to recover their property, they will not put it back on the market. Today, we have a lot of empty properties in Ibiza».

La entrada PP offensive against the Government’s permissiveness towards squatting and the legal insecurity for landlords se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• The new desalination plant in Ibiza has a date and will produce 1,000 m³ of water per day in Sant Antoni

Until this work is completed, the system will continue to operate with no real safety margin. As happened this summer, a major breakdown in any of the desalination plants during the high season would jeopardize the supply, since production is working at maximum capacity and the only available buffer is that offered by the reservoirs. There is water in storage for a few hours. Maybe a few days.

The expansion that will allow the system to breathe

The project will allow the Santa Eulària desalination plant to increase from 16,000 to 22,000 cubic meters per day, almost 40% more, through the incorporation of a fourth reverse osmosis rack.

This is not a local improvement: the island’s three desalination plants are interconnected, so the new flow can be redistributed according to the needs of the system as a whole.

This point is key because the Ibiza desalination plant cannot be expanded, which makes Santa Eulària the only structural pillar capable of absorbing the growth in demand, until the fourth desalination plant is available for which it will be many years, perhaps a decade.

The Sant Antoni plant, on the other hand, will be reinforced with a mobile desalination plant, a backup solution designed for emergencies and consumption peaks, but insufficient to solve the basic problem. It will provide an additional 1,000 cubic meters per day.

Skyrocketing production and depleted aquifers

The project comes after years of sustained increase in the consumption of desalinated water, caused by the accelerated deterioration of aquifers, both in quantity and quality. According to Abaqua data, Ibiza has gone from consuming about 5 cubic hectometers per year in 2009 to almost 13 in 2024, and everything indicates that in 2025 it will exceed 14 cubic hectometers.

This evolution has led to an increasing number of months of operation at the limit of their capacity, reducing to a minimum the capacity to react to breakdowns, drought episodes or peaks in demand associated with the tourist season.

The fourth desalination plant, just a promise

Meanwhile, the fourth desalination fourth desalination plant in Ibiza remains on paper. It has no defined location, no technical project, and no timetable. To date, it is no more than a political commitment, with no real impact on the island’s production capacity.

For this reason, the Santa Eulària extension has become the centerpiece to prevent the system from collapsing in the coming years.

A complex project, almost 10 million and no margin for error

The project includes the remodeling of the seawater intake, new pipelines, filters and high-pressure equipment, a new reverse osmosis train, improvements in the pumping and distribution of treated water, as well as the adaptation of the electrical and control installations and the brine discharge system.

Everything has been designed with criteria of minimum environmental impact and, above all, with a priority objective: to keep the plant operational during the works, aware that Ibiza cannot afford prolonged stoppages.

The base bidding budget amounts to 9.99 million euros, including VAT. In addition, there is a technical assistance contract for construction management and health and safety coordination for 314,600 euros, with a total term of 25 months. The execution period of the works will be 23 months, once awarded and authorized by the Consell de Govern.

Two more summers on the edge

Until the expansion becomes a reality, Ibiza will continue to rely on a system stressed to the maximum, where any relevant failure in a desalination plant during peak demand months could have immediate consequences.

The expansion of Santa Eulària, together with the mobile desalination plant of Sant Antoni and a greater incorporation of desalinated water by the municipalities, will alleviate the pressure on the aquifers and improve the capacity to respond to emergencies.

But the message is clear: for the next 24 months, Ibiza will continue to pray that nothing goes wrong. Only then, if all goes according to plan, can the island begin to leave behind a water management based on the permanent limit.

Unless the rains recharge the aquifers, as the torrential rains of the last two weeks have done.

La entrada 24 months for Ibiza to stop praying for a guaranteed drinking water supply se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• Now the Consell de Formentera recognizes the obligation to dismantle the beach bars.

This is the first beach bar to begin dismantling work. Last year none of the eight concessionaires complied with the obligation contained in the concession title to be dismantled between January 15 and February 15.

This insubordination orchestrated in collusion with the government of Sa Unió at the head of the Consell de Formentera resulted in a derisory fine of 1,500 euros for each of the eight owners, a ridiculous amount compared to the costs of dismantling and reassembling the installations .

The refusal to comply led to a complaint from a group of former concessionaires and the Government, which forced the Conselleria del Mar to open an informative dossier. As a result, the technical and legal reports of the officials left no doubt about the seriousness of the breaches: the concession should be expired .

The documentation was transferred to the parties so that they can argue if they consider it appropriate. The next step is the resolution of the Conseller del Mar y del Ciclo del Agua, Juan Manuel Lafuente.

Sa Unió fails, Cordoba moral victory

Unless there is a surprise, the concession will be withdrawn and Formentera will not have beach bars on its beaches this summer, which will be an absolute failure for Sa Unió and a moral victory for Llorenç Córdoba, who bet on leaving the contest deserted, renewing the old concessionaires for a year and calling for a new one.

The consequence will not only be the loss of one of the tourist attractions of Formentera, as evidenced by the fact that the beach bars were widely promoted in one of the latest videos of the Consell de Formentera. And the fact is that the beach bars provide lifeguard service and are obliged to offer public toilets.

• Historic chiringuito

Bartolomé Escandell managed to renew the concession in extremis and as a result of the fact that the winner of the lot did not present the required documentation .

In a way, Escandell has acted as a loose canon with respect to the other seven concessionaires, who have behaved at all times as a team led by Juanjo Costa, the businessman behind the beach bar that installed the pipes under the dunes without permission.

For example, he did not sign the application registered by the historic lawyer of Angel Bustos, Francisco Javier Jimenez de Cisneros Cid, old acquaintance of the Port Authority as his complaint triggered the case ports, among others, in which he requested not to dismantle on the grounds that the specification requires to be open all year, inconsistency that would have served to reverse the contest. Nor did he participate in the meeting in which Angel Bustos, owner of two beach bars in es Pujols, proposed a reduction of the canon.

It did join the insubordination of the chiringuitos and did not dismantle the installation last year, something it did not want to repeat this year.

La entrada End of the unity in the insubordination: the historic beach bar of Formentera that renewed the concession ‘in extremis’ begins to dismantle. se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• The Govern prepares a tax deduction to curb the rise in rents in 2026

The spokesman of the Executive and Minister of Economy, Finance and Innovation, Antoni Costa, has detailed this initiative in the press conference after the Consell de Govern held this Friday, in which he confirmed that the bonus will be applied per taxpayer and will have an approximate amount of 2,000 euros. The objective, as he explained, is to «try to moderate the increase» of the rents during the next year.

Measure announced by Marga Prohens

The tax deduction was previously announced by the president of the Govern, Marga Prohens, during the last plenary session of the Parliament, as part of a package of actions to encourage price containment in the rental market. The proposal aims to encourage landlords to freeze or limit contract increases in a context of strong pressure on housing.

CPI as a ceiling

The maximum limit of increase allowed to access the deduction will be the CPI, has stressed Costa, who has remarked that the design of the bonus is «quite advanced». This measure is part of the Government’s strategy to alleviate the impact of the rising cost of rent in the Balearic Islands, a community particularly affected by the tension in the real estate market.

La entrada Government gives details of tax incentive to curb rent hikes se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• The Govern prepares a tax deduction to curb the rise in rents in 2026

The spokesman of the Executive and Minister of Economy, Finance and Innovation, Antoni Costa, has detailed this initiative in the press conference after the Consell de Govern held this Friday, in which he confirmed that the bonus will be applied per taxpayer and will have an approximate amount of 2,000 euros. The objective, as he explained, is to «try to moderate the increase» of the rents during the next year.

Measure announced by Marga Prohens

The tax deduction was previously announced by the president of the Govern, Marga Prohens, during the last plenary session of the Parliament, as part of a package of actions to encourage price containment in the rental market. The proposal aims to encourage landlords to freeze or limit contract increases in a context of strong pressure on housing.

CPI as a ceiling

The maximum limit of increase allowed to access the deduction will be the CPI, has stressed Costa, who has remarked that the design of the bonus is «quite advanced». This measure is part of the Government’s strategy to alleviate the impact of the rising cost of rent in the Balearic Islands, a community particularly affected by the tension in the real estate market.

La entrada Government gives details of tax incentive to curb rent hikes se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• Public housing to be planned in Ibiza under the Plan de Choque announced by Prohens

• Public Housing Shock Plan: 228 million euros to build 1,000 apartments by 2026

The controversy was addressed in the plenary session of the Parliament held last Tuesday, when the socialist deputy Mercedes Garrido said that the regional government had only exercised this right on 35 occasions throughout the Balearic Islands. According to the PSOE, 13 of those operations would correspond to Ibiza and none to Formentera, although it did not specify which were those files or their typology.

When asked by La Voz de Ibiza for details of these 13 operations on the island, the PSOE avoided giving details and referred this media to the Conselleria d’Habitatge.

Consulted by this newspaper, the Conselleria maintains that the figure of 520 operations cannot be interpreted as 520 homes available for immediate purchase. «The IBAVI exercises the right of first refusal whenever possible. It is a legal and technical decision, not a political one, and it is based on the criteria regulated by law and on IBAVI’s own criteria,» department sources explain.

Which operations enter

The Government reminds us that under the umbrella of the right of first refusal, a wide range of operations are notified, which do not always meet the legal requirements to be acquired by the Administration. These include transfers of subsidized housing, operations linked to large holders, purchases of plots of land or sales of entire buildings, among other cases.

One of the main reasons why IBAVI rules out intervening is the presence of tenants. «IBAVI has never purchased housing with tenants. Neither with the Pacte «, they emphasize from the Conselleria. According to the Govern, part of the operations cited by the PSOE would include this circumstance, which would make them unfeasible. «However much they now try to confuse people,» they add.

This argument has come up especially as a result of some cases in Menorca that left-wing parties have used to criticize the current Government. From the Conselleria they insist that this criterion has not changed with respect to the previous legislature.

In his response in parliament, the minister Josep Maria Mateo contrasted historical data and stated that the Govern del Pacte renounced more than 1,000 operations of pre-emption and withdrawal between 2018 and June 2023. A data that the current Executive uses to relativize the socialist criticism and contextualize the volume of discarded files.

Purchases and promotions that do go ahead

In response to the opposition’s denunciation, the Conselleria d’Habitatge emphasizes that so far in this legislature, the operations of pre-emption, withdrawal and other purchases will allow the IBAVI to increase the public housing stock by 172 homes in the Balearic Islands, and assures that the agency continues to work on new acquisitions.

In the case of Ibiza, the Govern points out that the purchases underway will total at least 19 homes. The main operation is the acquisition of a plot of land from Sareb in Sant Antoni de Portmany, where IBAVI is planning a development of 18 public housing units, which will be the institute’s first in this municipality in more than 15 years.

The debate on the use of the right of first refusal takes place in a context of housing emergency, especially acute in Ibiza, where the demand for public housing far exceeds the available supply and keeps in focus any decision related to access to housing.

Continue reading:

• Ibavi will build 18 VPOs in Sant Antoni: how much will they cost and what will the new public housing be like?

La entrada The Government dismantles the PSOE’s denunciation on the pre-emption and withdrawal in the purchase of houses. se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• A ruling derails the plan designed by the Government to curb Uber and facilitates a flood of new licenses

The ruling, which the Govern has announced it will appeal, does not affect Ibiza’s cases, but it does call into question the fact that administrations, in this case the Govern, use fixed ratios between cabs and VTCs to deny licenses. This is the same argument used by the European courts.

The TSJIB overturns the resolution that rejected six requests for 100 licenses and forces to re-examine the case without applying the ratio of 12.6 cabs for each VTC, understanding that it was used automatically, without justifying «compelling reasons of general interest».

It also specifies that these applications, submitted before 2024, are not covered by the moratorium of Law 1/2024, which only stops new applications at a later date.

«It’s not pleasant news. In fact, it is to throw his hands to his head. We are very concerned about the route this could take,» Toni Roig, president of the Taxi Federation of Ibiza and Formentera (FTIE), told La Voz de Ibiza.

Roig said from the cab sector are still expectant what will happen after the Govern announced that it will appeal the ruling. And, although he points to caution, he does not rule out that such a measure will have its consequences in Ibiza: «Let’s see what the judicial route it has, but hopefully it will not affect our sector.»

A look at the state of the matter in the courts suggests that the recent ruling of the TSJIB is not a minor precedent.

• The Government prepares its strategy to contain Uber after the judicial setback that forces it to re-examine 600 VTC licenses.

Thousands of licenses in dispute

According to data published in September by Radio Ibiza, the Consell de Ibiza currently has 89 open court cases related to VTC licenses.

In 2024, 16,354 applications for VTC licenses were filed on the island; of these, only 365 were authorized and the rest were rejected. Of the litigation in progress, 81 processes refer to 5,782 licenses that were denied and another 73 that have been suspended, while eight appeals have been filed against 141 licenses granted.

The Consell has publicly defended a hard line: the island’s director of Transport, Roberto Algaba, has insisted that the institution maintains a «firm position» of not authorizing more licenses because, according to his criteria, the legal ratio of VTC is already amply met and many requests are due to speculative strategies to profit from the authorizations. That threshold, set in Decree 43/2014, is 6.74 cabs for each VTC in Ibiza, when in practice the island already moves in a ratio close to 1 VTC for every 3 cabs.

A good part of the Consell’s policy to reject new VTC has been based on the argument that the legal ratio has already been covered, as the institution itself has publicly explained. It remains to be seen to what extent that same reasoning, now questioned in the ruling of the 600 VTCs in Mallorca, is present -and with what weight- in the resolutions that have ended up in court.

The tension goes back years. In 2023, the Councilor for Mobility, Mariano Juan, had already warned that the Consell would deny «each and every one» of the more than 12,000 applications for VTC licenses that collapsed the department, considering it «unacceptable» that the administration would be paralyzed to «speculate and make money» with these titles.

In 2020, following a Supreme Court ruling, the Consell de Ibiza began processing 436 VTC licenses that had been requested years earlier, and a first company managed to reactivate 30 requests that had initially been denied because the vehicles were not domiciled on the island, IB3 reported.

• New cab regulation shortens the deadline for Uber to set up on another island

Uber and a model designed to tie VTCs to each island.

This summer, the Taxi Federation of Ibiza and Formentera (FTIE) has described as «considerable and increasingly serious nonsense» the expansion of Uber on the island and denounces that many vehicles operating through the platform «may not have the required VTC license», with a drop in turnover of around 25% and a plunge in calls to the booking center from 60,000 in May 2024 to 32,000 this year, as explained by its president, Toni Roig, on Radio Ibiza.

In this context, the Govern is working on a new regulation of cabs and VTC that aims to give more control to the councils and municipalities and curb the advance of these platforms. As advanced by La Voz de Ibiza, the text sets objective criteria to determine how many licenses can be granted in each modality and, above all, introduces a key rule: once the new regulation comes into force, VTCs can only operate on the island of which they have authorization. The text contemplates only one month for possible changes of domicile.

So far, the current regulations allow VTCs to operate in all the islands of the archipelago, something especially relevant if we take into account that in the Balearic Islands there are 768 VTC licenses granted and more than half of them (about 400) are domiciled in Ibiza.

The new regulation aims to cut this inter-island mobility and tie each authorization to its territory, while the regulation – currently in the final stretch of its processing after receiving favorable reports from IB Dona and the Consell de Consum – establishes that the island councils will set quotas for VTC licenses based on parameters such as the Human Pressure Index, the public transport network, large infrastructures and environmental impact.

Cross interests between Ibiza and Mallorca

Another fact that illustrates the business appetite and the connection between islands: according to La Voz de Ibiza, companies and freelancers based in Ibiza have taken 18 of the 75 seasonal VTC licenses that the Government will grant for the last season in Mallorca, almost a quarter of the total. In Ibiza, on the other hand, no seasonal VTC licenses are granted despite the historical claim of the sector.

In the case of fixed licenses, the new rule of «each VTC on its island» that the Government wants to implement will limit, on paper, the possibility of «migrating» vehicles from one island to another according to demand.

Continue reading:

• New cab regulations: what requirements could stop Uber’s advance in Ibiza?

La entrada Ibiza, in suspense after the ruling of the 600 VTC: the cab fears for its future between Uber and thousands of licenses in the courts. se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• What is known about the new H3N2 flu and why doctors warn of more hospitalizations

• What is influenza K and why is it worrying health experts in Europe?

Costa warned that the incidence rate has almost doubled in the last week, which places the Balearic Islands in an epidemic scenario of medium intensity, and has insisted on the need to strengthen prevention measures. Among them, he stressed the use of masks when there are symptoms of respiratory virus, especially in hospitals, residences, public transport and enclosed spaces with large numbers of people, such as shopping centers.

Ibiza, the island with the highest incidence of flu

Data released by the General Directorate of Public Health, through the Sentinel Surveillance System of Acute Respiratory Infection, confirm that Ibiza leads the incidence of influenza in the Balearic Islands, with about 120 infections per 100,000 inhabitants, twice the average for the whole archipelago. This information has been advanced by IB3, which details that the regional incidence stood at 64.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants between December 1 and 7, compared to 37.3 the previous week.

The forecasts of the Conselleria de Salud indicate that the peak of the flu will arrive during Christmas, several weeks earlier than usual, which has led the Govern to intensify its preventive message. In this sense, the Executive recalls the importance of vaccination, hand hygiene and ventilation of enclosed spaces, in addition to the responsible use of masks.

Hospital pressure on the rise, but no critical situation

The spokesperson of the Govern pointed out that the pressure of care in hospitals is increasing, although he specified that this is not a worrying situation at the moment. As he explained, the Balearic health system has a contingency plan that provides for the provision of up to 215 additional beds if the evolution of the flu so requires.

The regional government insists that vaccination is the main tool to reduce infections and complications, especially among the most vulnerable groups, in a context marked by the sharp increase of cases in Ibiza, which is the most affected territory in the Balearic Islands at the beginning of the flu season.

La entrada Govern calls for flu vaccination ahead of expected Christmas peak, with Ibiza as the most affected island se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• Total solar eclipse 2026: the «unrepeatable» minute in Ibiza and an expert’s key recommendation

The commission will be attached to the Regional Ministry of the Presidency and will be created with a transversal character, with the objective of guaranteeing an effective and anticipated response to the expected population increase in key observation points of the phenomenon.

«It is essential to have an instrument of coordination between administrations and agents involved,» stressed the spokesman of the Government, Antoni Costa, who is also Minister of Economy.

A historical phenomenon with logistical impact

The Balearic Islands is among the most strategic territories to observe this eclipse, which has not been repeated for more than a hundred years. According to Costa, the event will attract thousands of people, which will require a special management in matters such as security, civil protection, mobility, management of observation areas and information to citizens.

The main functions of the future commission will include the drafting of a regional action plan, the promotion of awareness campaigns and the monitoring of preventive measures to reduce the impact of the event.

Composition and specialized working groups

The body will be chaired by the Minister of the Presidency, Antònia Maria Estarellas, and will include representatives of the Government, the four island councils, the Federation of Local Entities of the Balearic Islands (Felib), the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) and astronomical associations. Experts and other institutions may also be invited.

In order to ensure specific attention, four working groups will be created:

• Mobility, prevention, civil protection and environmental risk management.

• Public health.

• Communication and tourism.

• Scientific dissemination.

An opportunity for scientific dissemination

In addition to minimizing the possible negative effects of the eclipse, the Balearic Government intends to turn it into an opportunity to project the Balearic Islands as a reference in astronomy, education and science. The commission will encourage the participation of the educational, scientific and informative community around the event.

The commission must be constituted within a maximum period of two months from the publication of the agreement in the Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (BOIB) and will meet quarterly. Its operation will not imply additional costs for the public coffers, since it will not have a specific budget allocation.

La entrada Total solar eclipse of 2026: Balearic Islands designs a special plan for its observation se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• A ruling derails the plan designed by the Government to curb Uber and facilitates a flood of new licenses

This was announced Friday by the spokesman of the Executive, Antoni Costa, after the meeting of the Consell de Govern. Costa stressed that the court ruling «forces to reprocess applications for licenses, not to grant them» and described it as «unfair» for the cab sector, so the Govern will fight it «to the last instance».

• The Government prepares its strategy to contain Uber after the judicial setback that forces it to re-examine 600 VTC licenses.

A ruling questioning the use of the ratio to veto VTCs

The ruling – to which La Voz de Ibizahad access –annuls the resolution of the previous Govern that rejected six applications for 100 VTC licenses each and orders the file to be taken back so that they can be studied again without applying the ratio of 12.6 cabs for each VTC fixed by Decree 43/2014 for Mallorca.

The TSJIB considers that this ratio was applied automatically, without justifying «compelling reasons of general interest» such as the good management of transport, traffic, public space or environmental protection, in line with the European doctrine that has already overturned similar limits such as the 1/30 of Barcelona.

In addition, the court specifies that these 600 applications – submitted before 2024 – are not covered by the moratorium on new cab and VTC licenses introduced by Law 1/2024, which only suspends authorizations requested after that date.

Sources from the General Directorate of Mobility had already explained to this newspaper that the Executive was studying «different ways of recourse, as well as the necessary complementary measures in its objective of avoiding a massive entry of VTCs taking into account the circumstances of the islands».

At the same time, the Govern frames the court battle in a broader regulatory scheme: Law 1/2024 and the new cab and VTC regulation that is being processed. That framework provides that:

• Each island shall determine the maximum number of licenses,

• VTCs may only operate on the island where they are domiciled,

• and quotas are set according to objective criteria (Human Pressure Index, public transportation network, presence of hospitals, ports and airports, road congestion and environmental parameters).

La entrada «It is unfair to the cab»: the Govern plants face to Uber and appeals the 600 VTC ruling. se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• The Govern activates the shipment of garbage from Ibiza to Mallorca after agreeing the new decree with Vox

Alegría underlined that the measure will allow the autonomous regions to free up to 6,700 million in interest, funds which the Executive plans to redirect towards health, education and dependence. In absolute terms, Catalonia and Andalusia will be the regions that concentrate the largest volume of cancellation, although the relative impact places the Balearic Islands in a prominent position within the new regional financial map. Despite the PP’s criticisms, the Government maintains that its communities will end up benefiting from the mechanism.

The methodology designed by the Treasury is structured in three phases: a base remission of 19% of the outstanding debt at the end of 2023; an adjustment to balance the autonomous regions that remain below that average; and a third stage that equals the adjusted savings per inhabitant and considers the exercise of fiscal powers, especially in personal income tax. The Basque Country and Navarre are left out due to their foral regime, although both have proposed receiving compensatory treatment.

The Government analyzes assuming «a certain degree of deficit«.

In parallel to the decision of the Council of Ministers, the Vice-president of the Government and Minister of Economy, Finance and Innovation, Antoni Costa, defended before the Parliament that the Balearic Islands can assume «a certain degree of deficit» in the event of an economic crisis. According to him, although the structural expenditure is «consolidated», the evolution of the income allows maintaining the stability, as reflected by the 644 million collected by the ITP until November, 75 more than in the previous year.

Costa added that he does not foresee a sharp decline in the real estate market affecting this revenue stream and recalled that the Balearic Islands closed 2024 with a provisional surplus of 114 million, the fifth in a row. In his opinion, the combination of financial reorganization and debt cancellation offers the community an additional margin to face an eventual deterioration of the economic cycle.

La entrada Government activates the largest regional debt relief and places the Balearic Islands among the major beneficiaries se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• The expiration of the concession to the beach bars of Formentera is closer.

After analyzing the technical report of the head of the Concessions Service, the instructor of the preliminary proceedings has requested «topromote, without further delay, the initiation of the expiration procedure«, since there is sufficient evidence that the essential conditions of the concession title have not been complied with.

Although the General Coastal Regulation establishes a «maximum term» of 18 months to «resolve and notify the resolution in the expiration procedures», the legal report states that «it is convenient to agree to initiate them as soon as possible, in order to purge in an orderly manner the non-compliances and possible concurrent responsibilities and to avoid the prolongation of a situation of uncertainty regarding the adequacy of the facilities to the essential conditions of the concession».

Therefore, it is estimated that the resolution will take place in the next few months, before the 2026 summer season.

Provisional measures

Another indication that fuels this scenario is that the legal report advances with the possibility of taking provisional measures while the cancellation file is being processed.

• Countdown for Formentera’s beach bars: refusal to dismantle is grounds for immediate termination of the concession

According to the Law of Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations (LPAC) and the General Regulation of Coasts, «the initiation allows -with hearing- to suspend the use of non-compliant facilities and order the precautionary lifting of elements that compromise distances or dune protection, when necessary to avoid the consolidation of effects contrary to the legality of the property», as detailed in the report in possession of La Voz de Ibiza.

In addition, the instructor of the preliminary proceedings, Pablo Giménez Vera, states that, although at this stage the Administration «does not require ‘full proof’ of all the points, but rather consistent and reasonable indications of essential non-compliances», in this case they do «more than concur«.

«The forfeiture procedure will allow the owner’s contradiction and, if necessary, the practice of complementary expert evidence, but the current indicative density is sufficient to open the forfeiture file,» he determines.

«Without delay»

The non-compliances – ranging from the failure to dismantle during the past winter, the verification that several kiosks are not removable and the lack of sufficient technical documentation – are «sufficient elements to initiate the expiration procedure, accompanying it, if necessary, of provisional measures aimed at preventing the consolidation of effects and with transfer to the sanctioning service for the assessment of the opening of proceedings,» explains the legal report.

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For this reason, he promotes the initiation of the forfeiture procedure as quickly as possible: «Without further delay,» he says.

As stated in the report in the possession of La Voz de Ibiza, «although the preliminary proceedings of October 9, 2025 provided for the referral of this report to the Consell Insular de Formentera for the purpose of a hearing within the framework of the preliminary proceedings, the joint analysis of the facts and evidence accredited in the documentation available allows us to consider that the need to promote, without further delay, the initiation of the forfeiture proceeding is sufficiently established».

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In addition, it clarifies that, in the processing of this procedure «the hearing of the Consell Insular de Formentera will be guaranteed with respect to the facts and possible non-compliances detected, with all the guarantees of the contradictory phase», as well as the concessionaires involved.

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• The seven serious irregularities for which they ask for the nullity of the concessions of the beach bars of Formentera

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La entrada Formentera approaches a summer without beach bars on its beaches se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• The plenary session of the Consell de Ibiza approves the urban amnesty: what are the requirements to legalize constructions on rural land?

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This is reflected in a survey conducted by La Voz de Ibiza before the city councils of Vila, Sant Joan, Sant Josep, Sant Antoni and Santa Eulària.

In the only municipality where, for the moment, no extraordinary regularization is being processed is in Ibiza: «We have had several conversations with interested parties, but there is still no record of the presentation of technical projects,» they explained to this media.

For his part, the president of the Pitiusa Demarcation of the College of Architects, Lluís Olivasaid that «the forecast is that people, now that the regulations seem to have stabilized, begin to present before the increase in the fine that will be from the second year».

As of June, a hundred homes built without a license or out of order had been presented for legalization. «As of today we are close to 200, although I do not have exact data,» added Oliva.

Municipality by municipality

The only file closed and approved to date is in Sant Antoni de Portmany .

As explained by the City Council, they have received «57 applications within the process of extraordinary legalization of housing on rural land provided for in the decree law of administrative simplification».

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«The municipal technicians are processing these files and, for the time being, one of the applications submitted has been authorized,» they detailed.

In Santa Eulària they are also at an advanced stage with the procedures: of the 80 extraordinary legalizations presented, 68 are already being processed, as confirmed to La Voz de Ibiza.

In Sant Joan there is no file in process. «There have been 36 records of entry related to this issue, but for now they have not been resolved since, in some cases, injunctions have been requested,» they explained.

While in Sant Josep there are 60 applications registered and added from the City Council that «we will take stock soon».

Formentera, in the air

Formentera is the only Balearic island that has not yet validated the urban planning amnesty promoted by the administration of Marga Prohens to resolve the situation of buildings on unprotected rural land for irregularities prescribed.

The Govern did not want to encroach on the competences of the councils and has given the island governments the last word as they manage the territorial planning in the application of the measure of grace. Ibiza, Menorca and Mallorca have said yes and the measure is already in force in the three islands, unlike Formentera.

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In August last year, in the midst of the institutional and political crisis that the island was going through, the Consell Insular explained that «for the moment it is not a priority«.

More than a year later, it seems that the assessment of the consistory has not changed, although the scenario has, with the reestablishment of the Governing Board last December, after the removal of former president Llorenç Córdoba.

When asked by La Voz de Ibiza, they responded this week that «this is not going to this plenary session«, although they did not give details as to whether the proposal is on the agenda.

The most important points of the urban development amnesty

1. Easier statute of limitations for illegal works

The requirements to prove the date of completion of illegal works are relaxed.

Any legally admissible any legally admissible means of proof (technical reports, testimonies, photos, historical documents…), following the evaluation criteria of the Civil Procedure Law. This implies an evidentiary standard less restrictive than the previous one.

2. Works are allowed in illegal buildings

Constructions considered out of order may receive maintenance, safety, sanitation, repair, consolidation and alteration works. maintenance, safety, sanitation, repair, consolidation and alteration works..This is not a legalization, but it does authorizes necessary improvements without requiring total regularization.

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3. Extension of the margin for extraordinary legalization

The three-year term to legalize buildings on rural land does not apply from the entry into force of the decree, but from the moment of the request for legalization. moment of the applicationprovided that the infringement is already time-barred.

This allows constructions with violations that are still in force to be eligible if they are they are time-barred within the three-year period.

4. Administrative silence changes from negative to positive

If the administration does not respond within six months, the application will be considered approved by positive approved by positive silenceunless there are grounds for inadmissibility.5. Specific regulation for protected rural land

For buildings in specially protected areas, the statute of limitations is only recognized if, in addition to the expiration of the statutory period, it is proven that the work or use already existed before it became prohibited. before it became prohibited..

Clarification

It should be clarified that after the publication of this article, the Santa Eulària City Council corrected the information provided and detailed that, of the 80 extraordinary legalizations presented, «68 are being processed, 10 have already been approved by the Governing Board; 1 has been denied by the JGL; and 1 license has been issued».

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La entrada Urban planning amnesty in Ibiza: only two files approved out of more than 200 submitted to regularize illegal construction works se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• «It’s too exaggerated»: fishermen from Ibiza and Formentera charge against the new mandatory app for declaring catches

The request was made by the Director General of Institutional Relations, Xesca Ramis, during the Euroregional meeting Cooperate to transform, held in Barcelona as part of the Mediterranean Day. There she argued that Brussels should recognize that the Mediterranean «is a coastal fishing area with its own identity» and that, therefore, it requires differentiated rules, specific financing and a more territorialized management.

More fishing days and a revision of the Demersal Plan

Ramis recalled that the Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euroregion has created for the first time a working group on Fisheries and has approved a joint declaration addressed to the European Commission. Among the demands are:

• the revision of the Multiannual Demersal Fisheries Plan (MAP),

• more fishing days for Mediterranean fleets,

• decisions based on updated data specific to the territory,

• and a revision of the landing obligation, which in the Mediterranean «has not been effective and has increased bureaucracy».

The director general insisted that the current community framework «does not sufficiently incorporate the particularities of the Mediterranean sector» and called for real financial support to modernize the fleet and advance in decarbonization.

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Grau calls for regionalized management and recognizes improvements in the Balearic Islands

The general director of Fisheries, Antoni Maria Grau, participated in a round table with the general secretary of State Fisheries, Isabel Artime, and representatives from other regions. Grau admitted that the Demersal Plan has contributed to the recovery of resources, but stressed that «now is the time to rethink management to ensure a sustainable and viable future for our fisheries».

As an example, he pointed out that in the Balearic Islands the reduction of fishing effort has favored a remarkable recovery of catches and defended the need for regionalized plans, such as the one demanded by the Government for the GSA5 -the sub-area that includes the Balearic Islands- with limitations adapted to the particularities of the territory.

Grau also highlighted the weight of the Balearic Islands in marine conservation, with more than 40% of the sea protected, 67,000 hectares of marine reserves and areas of high protection and co-management. In addition, he insisted that the direct participation of the sector is «essential» to move towards a balanced management and recalled the socioeconomic impact that the MAP has had on the professional fleet and the commercial system.

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Recognizing insularity and improving the market

The Govern demanded that the EU recognize the insularity factor and move towards a regionalized segmentation of fishing grounds, with decisions adjusted to the economic and maritime reality of each archipelago. It also defended the modernization of the market system, reinforcing transparency and fair competition.

A debate that coexists with tensions in recreational fisheries

Although the day in Barcelona focused on professional fishing, this debate comes at a time when the Pitiusas also live a parallel discussion on the management of recreational fishing effort. The imminent implementation of the state app PescaREC, which will oblige to declare the outputs and catches in external waters from January, has provoked criticism among recreationalists in Ibiza and a more nuanced approach in Formentera, where they support the control but question that it is imposed only via app.

In turn, the debate on a more adapted management for the Mediterranean comes at a time when the Balearic Islands are also promoting new spaces for participation, such as the Consell de Pesca Insular, conceived to strengthen the dialogue between the sector, the administration and scientists.

Both debates -professional and recreational- coincide in one basic point: the demand for management tools adapted to the specificity of the Balearic Islands and the reality of the Mediterranean, where small fleets, highly sensitive species and a marine environment under heavy pressure coexist.

La entrada The Govern calls on Europe for a «profound change» in fisheries policies for not adapting to the Mediterranean se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• The serious accident of Prohens’ novice driver: details of the accident that destroyed the official Lexus

A process with more than 200 applicants

The complainant, a civil servant driver since 2008, claims that the position was opened in October 2023 to temporarily reinforce the service, with more than 200 applicants registered in the offer. Among them was the relative of Alejandro Jurado, chief of staff of Prohens, who did not get the best score in the initial phase of baremación.

The complaint states that, after learning of these results, the rules were modified to require the submission of a curriculum vitae and allow the General Secretariat to choose «the most suitable person». In the official’s opinion, this variation transformed the competition into a disguised free appointment.

An internal instruction that changed the course

The brief filed with the courts details that the instruction approved on November 21, 2023 allowed the criteria of the initial call published in the BOIB to be reinterpreted.

According to the complaint, the instruction was applied «unfairly and arbitrarily» to alter the order marked by the merits and favor the relative of the Chief of Staff. The court will have to determine whether this change could have been made while the procedure was already underway.

Accident as a suitability argument

The complaint also includes the total loss of the official Lexus, which occurred in the spring of 2024, when the driver lost control at a traffic circle with wet asphalt.

The president was not in the vehicle, which was returning after dropping her off at Palma airport. The official uses this episode to argue that the selected driver «did not have the necessary merits or experience», and that the accident serves as an example of the alleged lack of suitability.

A Lexus with a political route

The accident vehicle was a black Lexus purchased in 2019 by the Department of Labor, Trade and Industry for 39,796 euros, including taxes.

It had been used in the previous legislature by the socialist ex-councilor Iago Negueruela and was assigned to the Presidency service when it suffered the accident. The car was declared a total loss, a fact that the civil servant provides in his complaint to reinforce his story.

Driver relocation and labor deterioration

The complainant claims that, after the incorporation of the new driver, he and another driver were removed from the direct service of the Presidency and transferred to the Conselleria, which would have meant a worsening of their working conditions. The letter indicates that the civil servant has an anxious-depressive condition.

More responsible parties identified

The complaint not only targets the chief of staff. The letter also mentions the Councilor of the Presidency, Antònia Maria Estarellas, and the director of the Balearic School of Public Administration (EBAP), María Violeta Rodríguez.

The complainant claims that both participated in or endorsed key decisions that allowed the process to be modified. He considers that the facts could constitute crimes of prevarication and influence peddling.

While waiting for the court to decide whether to admit the complaint, the Govern reminds that the accident caused no injuries and that the president was not in the vehicle.

There have been no official assessments so far on the allegations related to the selection process, which could force the Executive to provide internal documentation if proceedings are opened.

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La entrada «Illegal and arbitrary»: lawsuit claims that the plan to place the driver who crashed the official Lexus was designed by the Presidency se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• Government declares catastrophic zone for storms in Ibiza and Formentera

The transfer has been formalized after the official and telematic signing of the cooperation agreement between the Govern and the Consell de Ibiza, which took place this week. The Consell de Govern approved the allocation of the five million in aid on October 24 and authorized the drafting of the agreement with the Consell de Ibiza on November 7, previous steps that allowed the activation of the extraordinary package.

The aids cover homes and businesses The aids, non-refundable, are aimed at individuals, self-employed and businesses, as reported by the Conselleria de Presidencia. Individuals may use the funds to repair damage to homes, basic household goods or vehicles declared total loss, while businesses and professionals will receive between 2,000 and 10,000 euros depending on the accredited damage.

Additional infrastructure investments

This contribution is in addition to the 2.95 million euros (VAT included) that the Government had already invested through the General Directorate of Water Resources within the Plan of Emergency Infrastructure Actions in Ibiza, activated on October 13, 2025. Thanks to this investment, emergency works have been carried out in torrents and critical points, which has made it possible to restore the safety and functionality of several areas affected by the storms.

Institutional commitment

From the first episode of rains, on September 30, until the confirmation of the transfer this Thursday, the Govern maintains that it has activated all administrative mechanisms in less than two months to fulfill its commitment to the citizens of Ibiza: transparency, speed and institutional cooperation to minimize the impact of the damage and restore normality in the most affected municipalities.

Overall, the Govern has earmarked 7.95 million euros to alleviate the effects of the floods on the island, a figure that combines both direct aid and urgent interventions in infrastructure. This economic package, according to the Executive, will allow to accelerate the repair of the damages and support the reactivation of the most affected areas.

La entrada Govern activates 5 million in aid for the rains in Ibiza: who can ask for it? se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• The Consell and the city councils claim to the State an insularity bonus to reinforce the presence of civil servants on the island

Only the president of the Balearic Government, Marga Prohens, exceeds in salary the president of the Consell de Ibiza, Vicent Marí .

At the municipal level, the mayor of Ibiza, Rafael Triguero, heads the list of the 67 mayors of the Balearic Islands with 68,293 euros per year, ahead of the mayor of Palma and the mayor of Calvià.

The list, which reflects the remuneration of elected officials and public employees of autonomous communities and local entities in 2024, also reveals that Marcos Serra, mayor of Sant Antoni, ranks fourth, with 60,180 euros, and Vicent Roig, mayor of Sant Josep, fifth, with 59,000 euros.

Differences between municipalities

The remuneration of the mayors of Ibiza varies significantly between municipalities. The mayor of Sant Joan, Tania Marí, receives 52,272 euros, while the mayor of Santa Eulària, Carmen Ferrer, is listed with an official salary of 38,296 euros. However, in a public document of the City Council it is stated that in 2023 her salary was 63,888 euros, which points to a possible discrepancy in the official data.

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Compared to 2020, most salaries have increased. Triguero has gone from 59,540 to 68,293 euros; Roig, from 54,000 to 59,000, and Serra maintains practically the same figure. The case of Ferrer is the only one that, in theory, shows a decrease.

The presidents of the island councils

At the island level, Vicent Marí, president of the Consell de Ibiza, has the highest salary in the Balearic Islands, with 76,579 euros.

He is followed by Llorenç Galmés, president of the Consell de Mallorca (75,703 euros), and Adolfo Vilafranca, president of Menorca(63,278 euros).

Óscar Portas, president of the Consell de Formentera, does not appear in the ministerial report but does appear on the institutional website, with a salary of 55,349 euros.

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The report does not include data from Formentera due to lack of official submission to the Ministry, although part of the information is public on the website of the Consell de Formentera.

Marga Prohens, in the lead

At the regional level, the president of the Balearic Government, Marga Prohens, earns 78,803 euros a year, above the island presidents, but still far behind the highest paid regional leaders such as Salvador Illa (Catalonia, 140,257 euros) and Isabel Díaz Ayuso (Madrid, 103,090 euros).

La entrada Ibiza leads the political salary ranking in the Balearic Islands: these are the public officials who earn the highest salaries se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• UGT reiterates its complaint about the deterioration of 061 in Ibiza: «Mismanagement» and «lack of maintenance».

The delegate Vicente Nadal Ballesteros told La Voz de Ibiza that in Mallorca and Menorca this structure already works, with two specific technicians «in charge of replacing, changing and correcting incidents in the fleet, both urgent and programmed«.

On the other hand, in Ibiza and Formentera «these tasks fall to traffic chiefs and relocated personnel«, despite the fact that they are not functions proper to those positions. «For example, if a monitor breaks at a base in Sant Antoni, they take the new monitor and take the old one with them,» he explains.

This lack of structure has a special impact on Formentera, where, according to Nadal, «if a neck brace breaks, until a helicopter or a partner arrives…».The absence of a stable logistical team means that situations such as a punctured vacuum mattress can last «three or four months» without replacement, simply because no one can move it or check it with the necessary frequency.

UGT reiterates that these functions should not fall to workers without specific technical training, nor to traffic managers who «are there for schedules and personnel management«. «It should be done by a certified workshop or a qualified professional,» stresses Nadal, who regrets that the current system forces them to improvise repairs that are not part of the responsibilities of such personnel. For the union, this lack of professionalization not only generates delays, but also contributes to equipment deteriorating prematurely.

The organization insists that the creation of its own logistics department -identical to that of Mallorca and Menorca- would make it possible to review the fleet, replenish material and control incidents on a regular basis, including weekly visits to Formentera, where the accumulation of material pending replacement is one of the main problems of the service. UGT demands that means, tools and a formal structure be provided to replace the current «sporadic and insufficient» system.

Complaint of lack of maintenance

The union relates this lack of logistics with the deterioration of the current fleet of ambulances. The Regional Minister of Health, Manuela Garcia, said recently that there will be no problems with the new vehicles, as the company Fraikin will continue to be in charge of maintenance thanks to the award under the form of renting.

However, UGT argues that «the lack of maintenance by the previous company» explains the current situation, given that «Fraikin almost never sent technicians to Ibiza» and many breakdowns ended up being solved by the staff themselves. The union fears that the situation could be repeated if real follow-up mechanisms are not established.

In addition to the lack of maintenance, there are structural deficiencies in several operational bases. UGT denounces the absence of roofs and adequate warehouses in Sant Antoni, Sant Agustí and Sant Joan, where ambulances lack protection against inclement weather. In the case of non-emergency medical transport, vehicles are still piled up in the old hospital of Can Misses, which makes it difficult to review and projects an «unprofessional» image. These deficits have already been warned on previous occasions.

Other claims

Added to this is the lack of hiring. According to the union, despite the availability of personnel in the SOIB, the management of GSAIB continues to resort to between 10 and 15 extra guards daily to cover sick leave and uncovered shifts, which increases the workload and increases public spending. UGT recalls that last November 17, the basic life support ambulance of Sant Joan was inoperative for twelve hours due to lack of staff, despite the fact that that day additional guards were offered to cover the service.

The union warns that this dynamic could be repeated during the Christmas campaign, especially in view of the implementation of the new LIMA resource, which will require six professionals per day. UGT points out that there are five technicians registered with the SOIB who meet the requirements, but that the public company does not plan to hire them, again resorting to the use of overtime. According to the organization, this model «overloads the staff and wastes public money».

The organization insists that the Pitiusas need their own logistics department, like the existing ones in Mallorca and Menorca, to avoid situations like the ones described and to guarantee a systematic follow-up of the fleet and the material. «We are waiting for the new fleet, but without a structure behind it the same thing will happen,» Nadal points out. UGT demands an official response and a real planning before the entry into service of the new vehicles and the LIMA resource.

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La entrada «If there is a punctured vacuum mattress, there it is, three or four months»: how the lack of logistics affects 061 in Ibiza and Formentera. se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.