What does this mean for visitors and residents on La Palma?

Nothing will be decided at the plenary on 10 and 11 November, where the PSOE group will table its questions and motions. Motions bind the government only if it then acts on them.

Power failed for 50,508 connections on La Palma on 2 November, and it took almost four hours to come back. The cause is not officially established, and the government has not yet answered the question on counter-measures.

According to Endesa and Red Eléctrica, supply was fully back at 10:26. If you have a holiday home or hotel room, ask your host about backup power and charge your phone and power bank in good time.

Four doctors were on strike on La Palma on 3 November, according to the health department Sanidad. Operations, consultations and tests are suspended across the islands, so expect a postponement if you have an appointment and ask your health centre beforehand.

What happened in the blackout on 2 November?

The trouble began at 04:10, when the 66-kilovolt Guinchos–Valle line tripped and about 17,624 connections lost power. The complete outage followed at 06:38, after the Los Guinchos power station shut down, possibly because of the storm.

At 07:30 the Canary emergency service raised the PLATECA alert level. Other reports give 06:42 as the start, and this discrepancy has not been resolved.

Nobody has confirmed the cause, and Endesa is still analysing the incident. Sources at Red Eléctrica point to the power station shutting down, while Endesa cites an earlier fault on the Guinchos–Valle line at around 04:00.

A storm warning with heavy rain was in force when the power failed. Whether compensation or sanctions will follow is not yet known.

How often has the power failed on La Palma before?

The whole island lost power on 10 June 2025, from 17:32 until just before 21:00. Alberto Hernández, the Canary Islands director general for energy, blamed outdated generating plant at the time.

A fault at the Los Guinchos substation had already hit 19,526 users on 8 May 2025. Two more interruptions followed on 14 May, affecting about 9,000 and 10,000 customers.

Another outage of about 20 minutes, affecting more than 13,700 customers, was reported for 4 November. Nothing beyond the headline is available, and the figures are unconfirmed.

La Palma has its own isolated power system. Endesa runs the power station and the distribution grid, while Red Eléctrica operates the system.

Endesa says more than half of its generating units are over 25 years old and two are over 50. It says it could not replace them because the state tender ran more than 12 years late.

MITECO, the Spanish ministry for ecological transition, had to launch that tender. It is now under way and Endesa has submitted a bid, but costs and funders are not published.

Where does the doctors' strike stand?

The doctors' unions CESM Canarias and SEMCA have been on open-ended strike in the Canary health service SCS since 16 October 2026. They demand better pay, rest time after on-call shifts and a negotiating framework of their own.

Health minister Esther Monzón called her offer “good” on 16 October: about 50 million euros, with the hourly rate for on-call duty rising by about 47%. The unions want about 150 million euros.

The UGT union signed a preliminary agreement around 30 September. CESM and SEMCA did not.

On 4 November, the twelfth day of the strike, talks had been stalled since 14 October. Whether the strike went on after that is not known, but no agreement or end to it has been reported.

Sanidad counted 201 striking doctors on 3 November, while the unions put participation at 41.4%. The count was 149 on Gran Canaria, 44 on Tenerife, 4 on La Palma, 3 on Lanzarote and 1 on Fuerteventura.

The PSOE asks regional president Fernando Clavijo how long he intends to stay out of the dispute. It wants to know when he will take over the talks with the doctors' unions.

What is on the agenda for nurseries and other issues?

The Canary social affairs department under Consejera Candelaria Delgado runs 13 Escuelas infantiles (nurseries for ages 0 to 3). Delgado called planned closures “optimisation of resources” and not a cut.

The PSOE motion asks the government to set goals for talks with works councils. The aim is to move the whole network, with its staff, to the education department.

An earlier PSOE motion, passed in parliament, demanded a halt to closures. CC and PP voted against it.

The PSOE text has no link to La Palma. The only known case is the baby room of the Escuela Infantil San Miguel Arcángel in Santa Cruz de La Palma, which closed in February 2025 because of staff shortages.

Only 29.9% of children aged 0 to 2 are enrolled in the Canary Islands, against 48% nationally (school year 2023-24), according to the education ministry. The islands are short of 6,871 places.

Other PSOE topics are the Bono Alquiler Joven (youth rent subsidy), the 2027 draft budget and the new Ley del Suelo (land law). The question on emergency-room mortality concerns a hospital on Tenerife.

What happens next on the blackout and the doctors' strike?

The plenary of the Canary Islands parliament is scheduled for 10 and 11 November 2026. Times and the running order of the agenda have not been published.

The government has not yet answered on the 2 November blackout, and the Cabildo (island government) of La Palma has issued no statement. The cause therefore stays open for now.

For patients, everything on the doctors' strike depends on whether talks resume. No date had been named for that by 4 November.