Lluís Enric Apesteguia Ripoll (born 1985)[1] is a Spanish politician of the party Més per Mallorca. He has been a councillor (2011–) and the mayor (2019–) of his hometown of Deià, as well as his party's spokesperson in the Island Council of Mallorca (2015–2018). He led the party in the 2023 Balearic regional election, where they retained their four seats.
Apesteguia was voted onto his hometown's council in 2011 as the leader of the independent progressive party Agrupació Deià, becoming leader of the opposition in the seven-person council led by the People's Party (PP).[3] He retained this position in the 2015 election and four years later, he became the town's first mayor from the left; this was achieved with the unanimous vote of the five councillors from his party and the two opposition members from Proposta per les Illes (El Pi).[4]
In October 2021, Apesteguia won the primary to be the leader of Més in the 2023 Balearic regional election, taking 56.6% of the votes. His opponent was Maria Ramon, the mayor of Esporles, who was endorsed by the party's executive.[6] Despite the vote share dropping from 9.18% to 8.27%, the party retained its four seats in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands.[7]