The President of the Congress and head of the PSOE list for Congress for the Balearic Islands, Francina Armengol, has announced her intention to introduce a new specific tax for private jets, with the aim of reducing pollution and moving toward a tourism model that “does not rely on ‘luxurification’”.
These measures have been proposed during a campaign event in Eivissa, where the candidate defended that the island must begin to limit this type of tourism and called for a transformation of the current economic model.
“The PSOE is betting on measures to contain environmental pollution and on a model that is not one of ‘luxurification’, that is not one of wealth without limits, but rather one of the distribution of wealth,” she said.
Armengol linked this proposal to the need to guarantee coexistence between tourism activity and the daily life of residents. “Residential life should be able to be compatible with tourism as an industry on this island,” she said. The candidate also reiterated her commitment to defending the welfare state, which is “one of the keystones of Spanish society.”
On housing matters, she stressed that the Balearic Islands need a change of government that will allow the state housing law to be applied fully and put a stop to the rise in rents. In this regard, she underlined that her goal is for, in May 2027, there to be a left-wing executive capable of applying the state regulations and “to cap this price”.
The Socialist leader also referred to the validation, in the Standing Committee of the Congress, of the decree law known as the Mari Carmen decree. In relation to the PP’s vote against it, she said that the PP president in Eivissa, José Vicente Marí Bosó, “should be ashamed.”