Balearic dialect Balearic dialect Balearic (, ) is the collective name for the dialects of Catalan spoken in the Balearic Islands: ' in Majorca, ' in Ibiza, and "" in Menorca. At the last census, 746,792 people in the Balearic Islands claimed to be able to speak Catalan, though some of these people may be speakers of mainland variants. Distinctive features of Catalan in the Balearic Islands differ according to the specific variant being spoken (Mallorcan, Menorcan, or Ibizan). Notes: Some in the Balearic Islands, such as the "Partido Popular" and a former regional president, José Ramón Bauzà, argue that the dialects
2015 Balearic regional election It established more school-hours in Spanish and English, when the majority of public schools and their teachers were not prepared to carry it out. The main opposition party, the Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands (PSIB), elected Francina Armengol as its new leader in February 2012 in substitution of former President of the Balearic Islands Francesc Antich. During the 2011–2015 legislature, Agreement for Majorca (ExM) joined the coalition between the Socialist Party of Majorca (PSM) and InitiativeGreens (IV) in 2013. It was renamed as More for Majorca (Més) in October 2013, with PSM leader Biel Barceló as its Secretary General.