Spain’s conservative People’s Party wants to tailor its leader’s campaign tour Alberto Núñez Feijóo to different regional objectives, according to a report by the newspaper 20minutos. In some constituencies, the party is said to be seeking additional seats; elsewhere, it will mobilise its voters or highlight the strength of the right-wing camp against the Socialists and nationalist parties. According to the report, the plan is to be adjusted continually on the basis of internal polls.
The occasion is the early Parliamentary election on 29 November 2026. The official campaign period began on 13 November and ends on 27 November. Both chambers of Spain’s parliament, the Congress of Deputies and the Senate, are to be elected.
According to 20minutos, based on the 2023 result, the People’s Party could gain or lose one seat in each of 28 constituencies. The newspaper gives this figure as a starting point for campaign planning; it is not a forecast of the election result. The report does not explain in detail which calculations or vote margins underpin this assessment.
Feijóo symbolically launched his campaign on 12 November in Badalona near Barcelona, before the official campaign period had begun. There he appeared with the mayor Xavier García Albiol who heads the People’s Party list for the Congress of Deputies in Barcelona. Catalonia is an important area for the party: in the 2023 general election it won six seats there, five of them in Barcelona, as the news agency EFE reports.
On the first official day of the campaign, Feijóo addressed young voters at an event in Madrid According to the public broadcaster RTVE, he promised, among other things, tax relief for people starting their careers. According to EFE, stops in Santiago de Compostela, Santander, Lleida and Pamplona were among those planned for the following days. Such schedules can change.
The regional distribution of votes is crucial to the allocation of seats in the Congress of Deputies. Constituencies elect different numbers of MPs, so a nationwide increase in votes does not necessarily lead to additional seats everywhere. Whether the People’s Party achieves its goals, and what majorities may be possible after the vote, will remain uncertain until the election result is known.
Editor: Phillipe Schmidt-Araguin (Article created with AI assistance).