The leader of the PP draws a catastrophic Spain in 2025, which he defined as the year of “the collapse of ‘sanchism'”, even if he did not mention hypothetical elections nor suggested that he would undertake to present a motion of censure for which he still has no support, while accusing Abascal of “navel-gazing”.
Feijóo insists that he was informed in real time in the dana even though he did not contact Mazón until 8 p.m.
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, closes 2025 aware that his electoral surge and the fall of the PSOE do not allow his party to get rid of Vox. Feijóo does not want to govern with the “radical right”, in his own words. But he will do it if it allows him to maintain autonomous power or to obtain, for the second time, the central government of a country that the leader of the opposition has shown on the verge of general collapse in his assessment for the year which is ending: “Scandals, corruption and the poor functioning of the government have a direct impact on the lives of Spaniards, on our economy, on infrastructure, on public services and on the international credibility of our country.
“Spain is the best country in the world,” Feijóo said at the start of his speech on the renovated second floor of the PP’s national headquarters on rue Génova in Madrid. In front of a good part of his Steering Committee, the leader of the opposition outlined in 10 points “the collapse of ‘sanchism'” which, according to him, occurred in 2025. A “collapse” which does not invite him to think about holding elections or to raise a motion of censure.
Feijóo does not seem willing to activate the only legal mechanism at his disposal to bring about the fall of the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez. And the leader of the PP broke down 10 reasons for the total “collapse” of the country. The first, parliamentary, prevents Sánchez from passing laws or approving at least some general state budgets throughout the legislature.
“It has been certified that Sánchez has lost the necessary support to continue,” he said. “Only this first failure would be enough to trigger a general election.” Feijóo ignored that the government’s parliamentary problems did not translate into an alternative majority united around him. Not even in the face of problems as serious as housing, which, he says, has gone from “not being in the top 15” to “being first.”
“He has no idea how to solve a problem he created and is only making worse,” he said. Feijóo spoke of other government problems: the “blackout,” which was caused “by government fanaticism.” The PP leader called for “changing energy policy” and extending the lifespan of nuclear power plants.
Feijóo also criticized immigration policy, Spain’s alleged lack of weight on the international stage due to the “progressive distrust” that, he said, the country generates towards its partners, which would be confirmed by the “loss of presence in meetings on security of the EU and Ukraine”. In this sense, Feijóo accused the government of losing a “great opportunity” with European funds, although he resorted to execution data from December 2024 to accuse the Executive of having executed only “19.5%” of the next generation money and of having allocated the money preferentially to the public sector.
The opposition leader also stressed that the government had “taken away hope” from “young people”. “Without housing, without work, without opportunities,” he summed up, “Sánchez condemned a generation to vital and emotional precariousness.” In the same sense, Feijóo stressed that the “impoverishment” of families “is constant”, with sharp increases in prices and “real incomes stagnating at 2019 levels”.
The “lack” of protection for women and “corruption impossible to pin down” complete the picture drawn up by the leader of the PP.
Without dialogue with Abascal, who looks at “his navel”
Faced with this panorama, Feijóo did not dare what will happen in 2026. He did not assure that the legislature was near its end, as he did on other occasions, he did not demand general elections nor, directly or indirectly, the support of government partners for a possible motion of censure.
The PP is immersed in the electoral gymkhana that Genoa plans for the end of 2025 and the first half of next year. But despite María Guardiola’s electoral rebound in Extremadura, Feijóo cannot get rid of the communicative and strategic burden that Vox represents, as his team recognizes.
Feijóo assured that he had not yet spoken with the leader of the far right, Santiago Abascal, about the recent regional elections. The leader of the PP once again demanded “proportionality” in the parliamentary consolidation of the results in Extremadura. “There is a party that won the elections resoundingly, a clear victory for the PP and a clear defeat for Mr. Sánchez,” he said. “It is unprecedented that the center right and the most radical right have 60% of the votes,” he assured.
But within the PP it is not clear that Vox will support María Guardiola after an angry campaign in which Abascal proposed that he could demand the head of the current interim regional president. Despite Feijóo’s efforts to explain that the arithmetic dependence of the PP is less, since it does not need the “yes” from Vox, but only abstention, the reality is that the specter of electoral repetition hangs over the post-electoral negotiations.
Something that would be “a lack of respect for the people of Extremadura”, in the words of Feijóo, “and it would be the responsibility of the parties who do not guarantee the results”, and “who do not respect the people and who look at the navel of their party interests which, compared to those of the people, are absolutely secondary”.
Feijóo maintains that “60% of Extremadura residents” elected the PP to preside over the community, thus adding Vox’s votes to theirs. However, he said that “the PP will need Vox’s support to maintain its stability.”
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