Negotiations to approve the non-fiscal spending limit for 2026 – the key step to start tackling regional budgets – entered a phase of maximum tension in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands on Monday. Government of Marga Bruhinz, who recorded this … The instrument arrived last Tuesday, late compared to the usual calendar and without yet receiving the support necessary to proceed to the plenary session on December 2, a deadline he set himself.
One week before that crucial plenary session, spokespeople for PSIB-PSOE, VOX and PP carried out an exchange of blame that reveals the parliamentary fragility of the regional executive and the difficulty of closing alliances in the current political moment.
Vox Party spokeswoman Manuela Cañadas launched the harshest attack against the government by saying that “the PP does not want to reach an agreement,” accusing it of “playing the victim” and acting in “pre-campaign mode.” Despite this, he stresses that VOX is keeping its “hand outstretched.”
Cañadas showed his direct rejection of the PP’s exploration of an alternative agreement with the Socialists: “We are surprised that the PP says it is ready to negotiate with the party that has destroyed these islands in the last eight years with Armengol. In 2023, the Citizens voted for change and will not understand that the PP is trying to negotiate with PSIB-PSOE.”
The Socialist Party denounces the “absurdity” practiced by the government
From the opposition, socialist spokesman Iago Negruela agreed with the Vox party in questioning the will to negotiate of the Bruhins executive. He also said, “No one has contacted us in recent days to negotiate anything,” which, in his opinion, confirms that “the government is trying in every possible way to ensure that an agreement is not reached.” Negueruela struck an accusatory tone by warning that the executive was “tampering with public budgets” and insisting that the resulting scenario showed “government instability.”
PP advocates for deadlines
PP spokesman Sebastia Sagreras tried to ease the tension and assured that the executive was sticking to the planned timetable: “The government registered the spending limit last Tuesday and was given until December 2 to approve it. In the next few days there will be communications.
However, Sagreras has set his main red line: interference with the rental price, a requirement of the PSIB. “We are not willing to set rental prices, a measure that has proven ineffective wherever it has been applied,” he said. The Socialists are also demanding an increase in the Sustainable Tourism Tax (ITS) or a ban on tourist rentals in multi-family homes.
Sagreras noted that the government’s “priority partner” was Vox, although he publicly questioned its desire to conclude a deal. “We will see if they want to negotiate or if they have an Abascal order not to approve budgets, as has happened in other communities. “This would show that Ms. Cañadas is worthless,” he said.
Uncertain scenario for 2026 accounts
The plenary session scheduled for December 2 will be decisive. Without approval of the spending limit, the government will not be able to present its budgets for 2026, and the door will be open to a possible extension of the budget, which would restrict the political and economic margin of the executive authority.
As time passes and the exchange of fire between the main parliamentary parties increases, the stability of Marja Bruhinz’s government remains in the hands of negotiations that are progressing against the clock and without clear results.