Battle of Majorca a seaborne attack on the Balearic Islands seem to have surfaced independently in various Republican militia groups in the days following the joining of Ibiza, Formentera, and Majorca to Franco's Nationalist military rebellion. Already, on July 23, bomber squadrons struck Palma and Cabrera, and on August 1, a Republican expeditionary force from Menorca landed at Cabrera and resisted all efforts to dislodge it. These actions, however, and in particular the Majorca landings, were never approved by the Madrid government and had from the very beginning an air of confusion and improvisation. On August 2, Bayo assembled a column of Barcelona
Socialist Party of Majorca Its representation in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands was between 7% and 15% of the votes. Usually as an opposition party, PSM was part of the Government of the Island Council of Majorca from 1995 until 2003 and from 2007 until 2011, and of the Government of the Balearic Islands from 1999 until 2003 and from 2007 until 2011. In the 2004 general election, PSM took part in a coalition in the Balearic Islands with United Left (EUIB), The Greens (EV), and Republican Left (ERC), as Progressives for the Balearic Islands. This coalition obtained 40,289 votes (12%). However, no