15 Jan, 2025 @ 16:10
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Party protesting Mallorca’s housing crisis to take place in Mallorca this weekend

PROTESTORS have organised a party in Mallorca to highlight the island’s ongoing housing crisis. 

‘Revival of the Resident Martyrs’ will be celebrated on January 19 in Palma’s Placa del Mercat. 

It is organised by Mes per Palma, Esquerra Unida and Sumar, who blame ‘the big economic interests of PP’s neoliberal politicians’ for the issue. 

The party coincides with San Sebastian fiestas the next day, Palma’s patron saint. 

It is hoped to use culture and music to spread awareness of the housing crisis and ‘unsustainable’ mass tourism.
“The PP government of Marga Prohens is the main cause of this situation, because they refuse to apply the Ley Estatal de Vivienda (State Housing Law) that regulates rentals,” they said. San Sebastian is represented in the poster as a victim of the housing crisis as a ‘martyr of speculation and abuse, just like the working class families of Palma.’
Local performer DJ Aparicio will take to the stage at the event, due to kick off at 20:00h. 

Yzabelle Bostyn

Yzabelle Bostyn is an NCTJ trained journalist who started her journalistic career at the Olive Press in 2023.
Before moving to Spain, she studied for a BA in English Literature and Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield.
After graduating she moved to the university’s journalism department, one of the best in the UK.
Throughout the past few years, she has taken on many roles including social media marketing, copywriting and radio presenting.
She then took a year out to travel Latin America, scaling volcanoes in Guatemala and swimming with sharks in Belize.
Then, she came to the Olive Press last year where she has honed her travel writing skills and reported on many fantastic experiences such as the Al Andalus luxury train.
She has also undertaken many investigations, looking into complex issues like Spain’s rental crisis and rising cancer rates.
Always willing to help, she has exposed many frauds and scams, working alongside victims to achieve justice.
She is most proud of her work on Nolotil, a drug linked to the deaths of many Brits in Spain.
A campaign launched by Yzabelle has received considerable support and her coverage has been by the UK and Spanish media alike.
Her writing has featured on many UK news outlets from the Sun to the Mail Online, who contracted her to report for them in Tenerife on growing tourism issues.
Recently, she has appeared on Times Radio covering deadly flooding in Valencia.

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