The national leadership of the People’s Party left in the hands of the President of the Balearic Islands, Marga Bruhinz, the decision to make a possible electoral advance after the setback suffered on Tuesday by the regional executive when she saw the spending ceiling – an essential step to be able to approve the 2026 budgets – reduced with votes against Vox and all leftist groups. The new crisis that broke out between the Popular Party and its investment partner once again jeopardizes the processing of accounts and opens a new phase of instability for the regional government.
When asked whether it would be possible to call early elections in communities where, as is the case in the Balearic Islands, the far right is creating obstacles to the approval of next year’s budgets, the People’s Party’s parliamentary spokesperson, Esther Muñoz, transferred responsibility to its regional presidents, claiming that they are the ones who have the capacity and legal legitimacy to be able to call elections.
However, the MP made it clear who she blames for the current situation: “Vox must decide what it wants to be when it grows up: whether it will favor non-leftist governments or play the SWP game.”
In the archipelago, the Autonomous Chamber witnessed the fall of the ceiling on non-financial spending for the Autonomous Region, against which the Vox Party and the Left revolted amid accusations that they – the Conservatives – were a “real scam” and a “blatant fraud.” As in other autonomous regions ruled by the People’s Party with a minority, the Prohens government does not have the necessary numbers to implement its third budgets of the legislature, a fact that the First Vice President of the Balearic Executive, Antoni Costa, the focus of the groups’ censure in yesterday’s session, attributed to direct orders coming from the national headquarters of the PSIB-PSOE and the far right and not to “technical contradictions or economic differences.”