The political year of the Popular Party 2025 was marked by a strategy of frontal opposition to the government of Pedro Sánchez, intoning an increasingly harsh speech against the PSOE as the various scandals surrounding the main Executive party became known. In this way, the party led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo closes the year as it began: by attacking the government for corruption plots, to which a Me too socialist derived from sexual harassment allegations. An erosion of the Executive on which the people intend to capitalize in the new electoral cycle which began in Extremadura and which will continue next year in the communities of Aragon, Castile and León and Andalusia. All this with the possibility of early general elections, a scenario that seems to hover over the political landscape.
The concatenation of alleged cases of corruption and sexual harassment within the PSOE that emerged throughout the political journey has meant that popular discourse has only increased in decibels, launch all the artillery against the PSOE and the government, both in the institutions and in the streets. Above all, the greatest attacks against Pedro Sánchez and his party have been motivated by the causes that investigate the wife and brother of the president, in addition to extending the shadow of doubt on the financing of Sánchez’s candidacy in the PSOE primaries, an issue from which the popular took advantage to turning the CEO’s father-in-law’s sauna business into rhetorical ammunitionand his alleged financial contribution to the internal race that helped Sánchez take control of the PSOE in 2017.
At the same time, the PP emphasized the known information on the Koldo affair, which it tried to pass on. in the committee dedicated to the open conspiracy in the Senate calling for different appearancesincluding Pedro Sánchez himself. For its part, the conviction of the former Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, also served as a battering ram against the government and to defend the existence of a campaign orchestrated from Moncloa against the PP and the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, as Feijóo assured from Genoa a few hours after the Supreme Court’s sentencing decision was known.
The latest plot uncovered by the UCO, already in the last part of the year, the one that focuses on the investment arm of the government, the SEPI, has also gained importance in the discursive assault of the PP, an affair that the popular have already baptized “Montero conspiracy”‘, due to the links between the former vice president of SEPI Vicente Rodríguez and the first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero.
Meanwhile, those in Feijóo took advantage of this year to outline an alternative to the coalition government laying the pillars of what his political project would be if he reached Moncloa. They based this government plan on three plans that they presented throughout the year, such as housing, immigration and self-employed workers. Three points on which the PP influenced, not only to attack the policies promoted by the government, but also to define its political agenda and advance what would be the priorities of a hypothetical government led by Feijóo.
Housing, immigration and self-employment plans
First, the leader of the PP began the year by denouncing your urgent housing projecttaking into account the “extraordinary” situation that Spain is going through, a problem that has only intensified throughout 2025, since the increase in real estate prices was 12.8% in the third quarter compared to the same period of 2024. Thus, in the PP they propose a proposal seek to facilitate access to housing —especially for young people—by an increase in supply, which they seek to achieve by rationalizing land or reducing bureaucratic and fiscal obstacles.
Another of the plans presented this year was immigrationwho directly opposed the government’s immigration policy. “There are two ways in which irregular immigration continues to be a problem: one is what the government is proposing, not talking about the issue because they believe that it does not give them a voice; and another is the way that Vox is talking about the issue without proposing possible solutions because they believe that is how they get votes”, concluded Feijóo on the day of the presentation of these measures in Barcelona. With all this, the PP intends that Immigration is “orderly, legal and humane”and his project focuses on the centralization of powers in a single authority or on the famous points visa, Canadian style, so that entry is prioritized for immigrants who meet certain requirements, such as knowledge of the culture or greater capacity for integration.
The populars have also repeatedly influenced the issue of self-employed workers, victims of the “fiscal hell” that the government of Pedro Sánchez has promoted – according to what they denounce from the PP. SO, The third popular plan is dedicated to self-employed workersand envisages a reduction in taxes, the reduction of bureaucracy and the guarantee of generational change through the formation of this group which reaches three million workers, which Feijóo has repeatedly considered a “priority”. “Lowering taxes is not an option, it is an obligation” intoned Feijóo during the presentation of these proposals, putting forward one of his main lines on the matter.
But in Genoa they also had to face a major internal crisisas was the case of the Valencian PP after the resignation of Carlos Mazón as president of the Generalitat Valenciana and his future replacement at the head of the PPCV. A change which was precipitated after the national funeral organized a year after the DANA disaster, and which the PP managed to resolve relatively quickly with the inauguration of Juanfran Pérez Llorca as the new Valencian president, with the support of Vox. As for the leadership of the party in the region, it first targeted the last weeks of December, specifically the 22nd – since the National Board of Directors was held – to undertake this organic change in the Valencian Community, although from Genoa they have already announced that it would be difficult to adapt to this date.
With all this, the Popular Party faces next year with its eyes fixed on a new electoral cycle that will focus on the first half and in which one victory after another is expected from the Popular Party. However, the key will focus on how these regional victories are achieved, as everything will depend on the level of dependence established with Vox. In fact, the regional elections can articulate a new distribution of forces on the right which will determine the next electoral period which will begin in 2026.
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