Spokesman, Fernando Gómez, said they want to “end the legal limbo of one of the most important problems caused by tourism on the island of Ibiza, i.e. the serious inconvenience caused by the so-called beach clubs and hotel nightclubs.”

There is a legal loophole that Podemos claim many of these venues are exploiting. The beach clubs are being held without the right licenses and with music “at full throttle” and without any legal requirement or obligation to provide soundproofing. Their “roar” can apparently be heard all around the island “much to the misfortune of the thousands of people who live there,” say Podemos. “But there are several other examples of beach bars or restaurants on other beaches that have become sources of noise and disturbance.”

Podemos are asking the government to heavily limit and regulate the activities and services of hotels and restaurants in order to exclude those that impact citizens particularly “open-air nightclubs, mainly on beaches.”

If venues don’t comply with the new rules, they can be fined or closed if they continue operate without soundproofing of some sort.

It should be noted that these propositions put forward by Podemos have not been put into law.

This seems like a long shot from Podemos and it seems very heavy handed. An outright ban on these things seems counterproductive and overall harmful to the tourist economy there given the general knowledge and reputation attributed to Ibiza as a party capital of the world.

This isn’t the first law affecting tourists on the islands. Those staying at all-inclusive hotels in Magaluf, Sant Antoni, and Playa de Palma are limited to just six drinks a day. You also can’t buy alcohol in between 9:30pm and 8am. Happy hours, pub crawls, and two-for-one drink offers are also banned.

All this has been quite popular with the locals and has been treated as a bipartisan issue spanning across the political spectrum.