old 60 years old, he led the region of Galicia so far and has built a reputation as a moderate since entering politics.
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The People’s Party (PP), the main opposition party to the Spanish left-wing government, elected Alberto Núñez Feijóo as its leader on Saturday 2nd April. This seasoned and pragmatic politician immediately called for party unity to “to take Spanish politics out of confrontation”he said in his first speech as leader, confirming the reputation for moderation he has built since entering politics.
Alberto Nunez Feijoo, 60, was elected leader of the People’s Party after an extraordinary party congress which opened on Friday in Seville, with 98.35% of the 2,663 votes cast, according to official results. Until then president of the regional government of Galicia, in the north-west of Spain, he was the only candidate to succeed Pablo Casado, 41, the outgoing president of the party.
From the base to its leaders, the People’s Party sees in him the only man capable both of unifying the party after one of the most serious internal crises in its history, which cost Pablo Casado his post, and of defeating the Socialist Party of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in the next elections, scheduled for the end of 2023. “Enough artificial polemics”he launched, also calling on the PP to stop “sterile debates” and to “address the real problems”.
“I am not coming to insult the president of the government, I am coming, with all of you, to defeat him.”
Alberto Nunez Feijooduring his victory speech
He will now have to bring back to power a right still traumatized by the 2018 overthrow of Mariano Rajoy by Parliament after the tabling of a motion of censure by the socialist Pedro Sánchez following the condemnation of the People’s Party in a corruption scandal. . The new leader of the right-wing party will have among his main missions to curb the rise of the far-right Vox party, non-existent in his Galician stronghold, but booming in much of Spain.