Alberto Núñez Feijóo
Spanish politician (born 1961)
Photo: Cristina Cifuentes, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons, cropped)
- 14h ago
PP and PSOE clash over pensions as Ester Muñoz's remarks fuel campaign row
Socialists accuse PP and Vox of planning pension cuts and privatization, while PP leaders promise CPI indexation and a public system. The row started with Ester Muñoz's remarks that the system is heading for trouble.
- 16h ago
Moroccan navy ships entered Spanish waters off Ceuta during July migrant surge, sparking PP and EU reaction
El País revealed that Moroccan navy vessels entered Spanish waters off Ceuta during the late-July migrant surge. The opposition PP wants Pedro Sánchez to explain it to parliament, and the European Commission declined to judge the incursion.
- 2d ago
UPN's party council backs joint run with PP in Spain's 29 November general election
UPN's party council voted on Tuesday, 13 October, to run in coalition with the Partido Popular at the 29 November general election, with Alberto Núñez Feijóo as the joint candidate for the Presidency of the Government.
- 2d ago
Feijóo says PP is the vote for change and rules out either cordon with Vox before 29 November
Speaking at the Palacio Real reception for Spain's National Day, Feijóo said the PP will not give up a vote before polls close, while Vox's leader Santiago Abascal skipped the event. An IMOP poll cited by El Confidencial puts the PP-Vox bloc at 201 seats.
- 2d ago
Morante returns to Las Ventas a year after his farewell, with no ears cut
Morante de la Puebla returned to Madrid's Las Ventas on 12 October 2026, a year after the farewell he staged in the same ring. He cut no ears from his two bulls, while the crowd split between applause and whistles during a corrida dedicated to Ceuta.
- 2d ago
Spain's Supreme Court keeps voting suspension for 160,000 naturalized citizens before 29 November vote
Naturalized citizens who obtained nationality under the 'ley de nietos' cannot vote in the 29 November general election unless they prove exile ancestry, and the government says it has done all it can before the census closes.
- 4d ago
Feijóo opens PP pre-campaign in Madrid, promising 'serene but forceful' change before 29 November
About 2,000 people, according to the PP, packed Ifema on Saturday as Alberto Núñez Feijóo opened the party's campaign for the 29 November general election, held 50 days later.
- 4d ago
Miriam González launches Democracia 21 in Madrid, standing only in Madrid and Barcelona
The party was presented on Saturday 10 October at a Madrid venue, where the organisers said 700 people attended. Democracia 21 will field lists only in Madrid and Barcelona at the general election on 29 November, with plans to run in all provinces later.
- 5d ago
Sánchez launches Spanish campaign with housing pledge after Maricarmen Abascal's death
Spain's prime minister opened his pre-campaign in Dos Hermanas near Seville on Saturday, pledging to keep and strengthen housing decrees if his party wins a broad progressive majority in the 29 November general election.
- 5d ago
Madrid asks government to clear Sol camp over possible radical groups
Madrid's regional government asked the central government's delegate on Saturday to lift the Puerta del Sol encampment, citing security and a possible evacuation need. Isabel Díaz Ayuso separately asked whether a group with pro-Palestinian terrorist antecedents runs the camp.
- 6d ago
Abascal skips Madrid's 12 October parade to spend national day in Ceuta with Bardella
Vox leader Santiago Abascal will skip Spain's 12 October military parade in Madrid and spend the national day in Ceuta with Jordan Bardella, president of the Patriots group in the European Parliament and leader of France's Agrupación Nacional.
- Oct 8
Galician nationalist Xosé Manuel Beiras dies at 90, farewell held in Santiago de Compostela
Beiras died on Thursday aged 90. On Friday his coffin lay at Santiago's Museo do Pobo Galego, where politicians from several parties paid tribute before his burial at Boisaca.
- Oct 6
Judge Pedraz declines for now to charge Spain's PSOE in the Leire Díez case
Pedraz said the case still lacks a 'principio de prueba' linking the party to the alleged plot, a view that matches the prosecutors' position that charging the PSOE is premature.
- Oct 6
Alba Carrillo returns to television to address lawsuits and Spanish elections
Spanish presenter Alba Carrillo answered a lawsuit by ex-husband Feliciano López, refuted claims by Omar Montes, and criticized conservative leaders during her broadcast on Ten.
- Oct 1
Conde-Pumpido demands renewal of four expired Spanish Constitutional Court seats
Constitutional Court President Cándido Conde-Pumpido has urged political parties to renew four Senate-appointed magistrate positions whose terms expired in December 2025, while announcing final rulings on the Catalan amnesty law for 6 October.
- Oct 1
Spanish opposition leader proposes medical discharge powers for mutual insurers, drawing union and government backlash
People's Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo proposed allowing mutual insurance associations to discharge workers on medical leave, facing immediate opposition from trade unions, medical inspectors, and the government.
- Sep 30
Spain casts lone vote against EU return hubs as Ceuta migrant crisis persists
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska rejected new EU deportation hub rules in Luxembourg, citing legal risks, while Madrid moved to relocate 2,500 migrant minors from Ceuta to the mainland.
- Sep 30
Valencian Socialists reveal 30-page dossier on President Pérez Llorca as leader demands court inquiry
The PSPV-PSOE parliamentary group presented a 30-page dossier on Wednesday detailing alleged corruption linked to Valencian President Juanfran Pérez Llorca, who responded by demanding that the documents be submitted directly to court.
- Sep 29
Spain extends fuel tax discounts and energy caps through 2026 despite industry pushback
Spain has approved a 12 billion euro energy support decree extending fuel discounts and gas price caps through the end of 2026 as transport, fishing, and agricultural groups demand deeper relief.
- Sep 29
Spanish Senate blocks friendship treaty with France during Emmanuel Macron's state visit
Spain's conservative-led Senate voted against ratifying the bilateral friendship treaty signed with France in 2023, prompting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to issue an apology to French President Emmanuel Macron in Madrid.
