Politics
Ensenyat will be Més candidate for Balearic presidency
Ensenyat will aim to be Balearic president and tourism minister Bel Busquets will be targetting the Council of Majorca presidency.
Politics
Santiago to run for election as Més presidential candidate
Fina Santiago has more ministerial experience than anyone else in Més.
Politics
Party boats on the Més and government regulation list
David Abril of Més was talking about planned legislation and the 2019 election.
Politics
Bel Busquets is new Balearic tourism minister
The PSOE messages cannot disguise the fact that they were reluctant to accept Busquets.
Politics
Podemos wanting a say in Barceló replacement
Més are now insisting that Bel Busquets becomes the next government vice-president.
Politics
Santiago lined up as new vice-president
The current minister for social services and cooperation, Fina Santiago, has a good relationship with President Armengol. A former mayor of Santa Margalida, Toni Reus, may head the list to become tourism minister.
Retailing
Més opposed to Inca shopping malls
Under Council of Majorca plans there could be commercial retail centres of up to 30,000 square metres in Inca.
Politics
Barceló insists that he will not resign
Biel Barceló: "The president has constantly backed me in all the decisions I have had to make."
Majorca
Independence week in Majorca
Catalonia, some of it, was wanting independence; Més took a view on Balearic independence and also found the legal system taking an interest in party members; the tourism minister was not entirely reassuring; Monarch went under; the rural world was having a spat; and Majorca contributed to a Nobel Prize.
Business
Government contracts are only a small part of Garau's businesses
It has been clear that Garau's abilities have not been in question. Political parties of different complexion agree on this.
Politics
Noguera, first Republican mayor of Palma for 80 years
The reference he made to eighty years was to Emili Darder, the Republican mayor of Palma who was shot by Franco's Nationalists.
Politics
Podemos threaten government pact if Barceló isn't sacked
"There is a weak point in government and that is him. Therefore, we ask him to step aside."
Politics
PP insist that Barceló should be sacked
The bandages have been applied but a "scalpel" is really needed, says the PP's Marga Prohens of the contracts affair.
Majorca
Airbnb alert and a mess for Més: the week in Majorca
There was uproar over holiday rentals and over contracts awarded by ministers with the Més party. A moratorium on new hotel licences was proposed, and there were two gas alarms.
Politics
Minister resigns and Més Minorca quit the government
Més in Minorca (Ruth Mateu is from Minorca) feel that Mateu has been hung out to dry and have decided to leave the government.
Transport
Més leading the way for airport co-management
Més and others want half the airport's profit to stay in the Balearics.
Transport
GOB refuses to attend airport co-management meeting
GOB has called for tourist numbers to be reduced and for limits on numbers to be set; "something which the government is not doing."
Nóos trial
Més accuse court of showing favourable treatment to Urdangarin
"To be sentenced to six and eight years in prison and to not enter prison for now is not normal."
Politics
A government Merry Christmas overshadowed by Podemos crisis
The government parties, PSOE and Més, are indignant about the handling of Podemos's internal crisis.
Politics
Balearic parties react to Sánchez resignation
Armengol insisted that the party must maintain its "no" to the investiture of Mariano Rajoy as prime minister.
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