In the absence of a year for the next regional elections and in the prelude to what could be the first summer without restrictions in the issuing markets of tourists,

Francina Armengol

has spent weeks looking for a coup in the management of the Balearic tourism model.

The President of the Government has already used the Fitur showcase -the main Spanish tourism fair- to present a tourism law in January that until then no one outside her cabinet knew about.

Among another series of measures, he promised to force the hotel industry to adapt its hotels to favor the group of cleaning employees, installing elevating beds.

The measure was presented before the eyes and applause of the Minister of Labor and Second Vice President of the Government,

Yolanda Díaz

, akin to Armengol and a public defender of the kellis movement, as the chambermaids call themselves.

For the opposition, that "ghost law" was fundamentally a propaganda movement.

Today, the Balearic Government chaired by the socialist leader has given a twist to its tourism policy by approving that law by decree and presenting it publicly in the face of criticism from the opposition, who strongly criticize that it has not been submitted to parliamentary negotiation before.

Among the main novelties, the Government has announced that it is applying a four-year moratorium on the commercialization of new hotel beds.

In other words, the creation of rooms and places for vacation rental is frozen until 2026.

The creation of places is the responsibility of each of the four islands that make up the archipelago and in the Balearic Islands they already have a ceiling.

There is a limit already established and quantified for years, a number of places above which you cannot grow.

Each island government has a bag of tourist places made up of those that are released and released to the market as the corresponding licenses are granted.

The new law promoted by the tripartite government of the Balearic Islands (PSOE, United We Can and Més per Mallorca) paralyzes the allocation of places in that bag and will order the island governments to recalculate the ceilings, marking that these are lower than those already established.

According to official figures, Mallorca, to cite the example of the island with the highest density, has a pool of 8,600 beds, of which 4,800 were for hotels and just over 3,600 for tourist rentals.

In total, the measure affects 18,718 places.

Armengol has defended the measure saying that the Islands will become the first "circular and sustainable destination in the world".

The opposition (PP, C's, Vox) have harshly criticized what they describe as a "decree" imposed without having gone through parliamentary processing.

Something that they consider serious since it is the main economic industry in the region.

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