The five transfers of Armengol to his radical partners of Més and Podemos: language, housing, tourism...

The demand for Catalan from doctors and nurses has not been the first transfer that

's PSOE has made to the most Catalanist wing and leaning to the left of her government, her allies from

and Unidas Podemos.

Although the preponderance of the Socialists has been clear during the two terms they have been in government, the Socialists have agreed to make concessions in matters such as health, housing, education or the main economic engine of the insular region: the

sightseeing.

LAW OF EDUCATION

.

Catalanism already reaped an at least symbolic victory when the PSOE modified the first educational law of the Balearic autonomous community at the last minute to suppress allusions to the "vehicular" nature of the Spanish language from the text.

A way of putting it, at least on a theoretical level, below the Catalan language.

The PSOE had agreed with the main opposition groups (

PP

Y

cs

) a text that did reflect this condition, but one day before it was approved by Parliament, he yielded to the demands of the nationalists of Més, suppressing the vehicular character of Spanish in the classroom and opening the door to linguistic immersion, in a formula that the opposition will challenge in court.

EXPROPRIATIONS.

In March 2021, the Balearic Government announced an unprecedented measure, aligned with one of the old aspirations of United We Can.

The temporary expropriation of the use of 56 homes that were in the hands of large holders, mainly financial entities, was announced.

They would be expropriated for seven years to be used for social use in exchange for a public income of 276 euros per month, significantly below its market price.

The experiment raised numerous criticisms and ended up being clearly diluted as it could only be applied to 16 floors.

Along the same lines, an attempt is being made to promote a limitation on the rental price.

I VETO NON-RESIDENTS.

It has been the penultimate of the measures that the Balearic PSOE, influenced by the discourse of its partners, has placed on the public agenda, trying to bring the matter to the national sphere.

Faced with the fiasco in the policies aimed at moderating the price of housing or facilitating its access (Baleares leads the table of negative indicators in Spain), the Socialists have assumed another of the proposals raised by their minority partners.

That of proposing a possible ban on the sale of homes to non-residents (foreigners) in the Islands.

The proposal, which clashes with the community policies of free movement of people and capital and the basic legal framework of the EU, has provoked harsh criticism and the collective protest of the real estate sector.

It has been supported by the Minister of Social Rights

Ione Belarra

.

LIMIT TO TOURISM.

The Balearic Executive approved in 2022 a decree establishing a moratorium for the creation of new tourist places in the next four years, a measure also demanded by the eco-sovereignty faction of the coalition and harshly criticized by groups dedicated to tourist rentals.

TOWN PLANNING.

The last decree approved by the government, another claim of the nationalist formation, hardens the conditions to authorize new urbanizations and limits the construction in rustic plots, prohibiting, for example, the construction of swimming pools.

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