The Partido Popular has presented this Tuesday its electoral programme for the general elections of 29 November, a 82-page document that, under the slogan "National Reconstruction", brings together 249 commitments for a possible legislature of Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The proposal combines tax cuts, measures to facilitate access to housing, a hardening of migration policy, and a broad review of the laws approved during the governments of Pedro Sánchez.
The PP promises to repeal the Amnesty Law, the Housing Law, and the Democratic Memory Law, to replace the current education legislation, and to review the Trans Law. It would also bring back the crimes of sedition and the calling of an illegal referendum, modify the system for electing the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), and require elections to be called if a Government accumulates two consecutive budget extensions.
The program includes commitments for the first one hundred days, including a general audit of public spending, the reform of RTVE and the Agencia EFE, and the suspension of the closing schedule for nuclear power plants. However, it does not include an economic report that would make it possible to calculate the cost of tax cuts or the major investments that have been committed.
The document is divided into four blocks, dedicated to the Administration and security, democratic regeneration, the territorial model, and economic and social policies. The PP presents them as the actions it would carry out "yes or yes" during the legislature.
Fewer ministries, recovery of sedition and tougher immigration
Feijóo proposes to begin his term with an audit of public bodies, state-owned companies, and the spending of the administrations, the results of which would serve to prepare the first General State Budgets. The review would be accompanied by a reduction in the number of ministries and senior posts and by the obligation to set an expiration date for each new public body.
The PP also wants to eliminate three rules for each new provision and to reduce administrative burdens by 25% before 2029, a figure it would raise to 35% for small and medium-sized enterprises.
On territorial matters, the party would restore offenses of sedition and calling an illegal referendum, eliminated during the current socialist stage. It would also promote a National Plan for the Presence of the State, with special attention to Catalonia, the Basque Country and Navarre.
Migration policy takes up a prominent part of the program. The PP proposes creating a single immigration authority, identifying people who enter Spain irregularly within a maximum of seven days, and prohibiting by law mass regularizations. It also includes rejecting at the border entries by swimming in Ceuta and Melilla.
The visa system would incorporate point-based criteria and annual quotas linked to cooperation by countries of origin in returns. To renew their residence, foreigners would have to demonstrate knowledge of Spanish and the Constitution, while the program proposes expulsion as the rule for those who have been convicted of certain serious crimes or for repeat offenses.
Another of the measures is banning the burka and the niqab in public spaces. The party would also toughen the conditions to obtain Spanish nationality and considers its loss for Spanish citizens who are not of origin convicted of serious crimes.
On security, Feijóo wants to extend the reviewable permanent imprisonment to certain repeat sexual offenders and to those who conceal the body of their victims. It adds a minimum fine of 3,000 euros for vandalism and the recognition of police officers and Civil Guards as risk professions.
Elections after two extended budgets and changes to the CGPJ
Institutional renewal takes up another of the major sections of the program. The PP proposes that two consecutive budget extensions oblige the dissolution of the Cortes and the calling of elections, a modification that would affect the rules of government continuity without new public accounts.
The investiture agreements would have to be published in full and certain state competences would be excluded from negotiations, including general Treasury, Social Security, Defense and foreign policy and migration policy.
In the judicial sphere, the party brings back its proposal for judges to directly elect the twelve CGPJ members from judicial backgrounds. In addition, judges and prosecutors who have held political positions would have to wait five years before resuming judicial or prosecutorial functions.
The Attorney General of the State would have a single mandate of five years, independent of the duration of the Government, and his appointment would require a binding report from the CGPJ. The program also includes his automatic dismissal if he is indicted.
To access the Constitutional Court, candidates would have to have remained for at least five years without holding political positions. The PP also proposes that appeals against laws that affect fundamental rights be resolved within 90 days and limiting the amparo appeal to prevent it from working as a second instance of the Supreme Court.
The party announces a CIS audit dating from 2018, a reform of RTVE and EFE in the first hundred days and a legal mandate for the presidency of the INE.
In matters of corruption, it aims to recover penalties for embezzlement prior to its last reform, require that public contracts and subsidies have digital traceability, and create a mandatory registry of pressure groups. It would also replace the Official Secrets Law of 1968.
The repeal of the Amnesty Law would be accompanied by a new Clemency Law that would prevent this act of grace from being granted to those convicted of corruption, terrorism or crimes against territorial integrity, as well as from using it to secure parliamentary support.
Multilateral regional funding, a common PAU, and changes to the Trans Law
The PP rejects bilateral agreements that would allow an autonomous community to leave the common system of financing. Its proposal involves negotiating a new model in the Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy, with the participation of all the autonomous communities and a transitional equalization fund.
It also argues that an activity license obtained in one community should be valid in the others, a single medical and social record, and a common university entrance exam (PAU) throughout Spain.
On linguistic matters, the program guarantees the right to receive education in Castilian at all educational stages and proposes to recover this language as a working language in Congress. Co-official languages would continue to be used in the Senate.
The training also proposes introducing roots criteria to access certain aid and benefits, taking into account registration (empadronamiento) and contributions, without using nationality exclusively.
Among the social reforms is the review of the Trans Law to eliminate the registered self-determination of sex. The PP also proposes using biological sex as the criterion for participating in female sports categories.
In terms of historical memory, it would repeal the Law on Democratic Memory and approve a Concord Law. The program also includes the restoration of the National Prize for Bullfighting.
A million homes, reduced VAT for young people, and the eviction of squatters in 48 hours
Housing is one of the PP’s main economic commitments. It promises to promote the construction of a million homes during the legislature.
The party would repeal the Housing Law, including the mechanisms for declaring stressed areas and price reference indices. To speed up construction, it proposes that planning permits be resolved within a maximum of three months, with positive administrative silence.
Under-40s could benefit from a reduction in VAT from 10% to 4% when buying their first home. The program also includes public guarantees of up to 20% of the property’s value to make paying the down payment easier.
The savings earmarked for buying a home would also have tax incentives. The so-called "Hucha Hogar Joven" would allow contributions of up to 2,000 euros per year with a 20% deduction.
For renting, the PP proposes tax advantages for landlords who renew contracts with increases lower than the CPI. The measure, called "Tres años+", seeks to favor tenants’ continuity.
The program also includes the commitment to evict illegal occupants within 48 hours.
IRPF cuts for young people, SMI exempt and quota zero for self-employed workers
On tax policy, the PP proposes updating the IRPF tax bracket to correct the effect of inflation and legally exempting from the tax those who receive the interprofessional minimum wage.
Young people aged between 18 and 35 would have a progressive reduction during their first four tax filing periods: 100% in the first year, 75% in the second, 50% in the third, and 25% in the fourth.
It also promises to maintain a 0% VAT for basic foods, including meat, fish and preserved goods, as long as the inflation crisis persists.
Self-employed workers would have a quota of zero during their first year of activity and would be exempt from declaring VAT when their annual turnover does not exceed 85,000 euros. The PP also proposes semiannual filings and a 100% bonus on the corresponding social security contributions for the first worker hired.
In the business sphere, the new economic regulations would have to pass a productivity test. Projects capable of creating at least one hundred jobs could be declared of national interest, while certain professionals who join large technological projects would enjoy 20% taxation for six years.
Free education until the age of three and 4,500 more doctors in Primary Care
The program will guarantee free early childhood education between the ages of zero and three at the end of the legislature. In parallel, the PP proposes a single family tax deduction, refundable and with monthly payment, for which the unborn conceived child would also be taken into account.
In education, the training would replace the LOMLOE and would harden the conditions for moving to the next grade in Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO), linking promotion to passing the subjects. It would also require a minimum grade to access Teacher Training studies and sets as an objective that Spain obtains the best result in the PISA tests in four years.
The party intends to ban accounts on social networks for minors under 14 years of age and to require parental authorization until 16.
In health care, Feijóo promises to incorporate at least 4,500 additional doctors to Primary Care, to approve a Mental Health Plan for the period 2027-2037, and to draft a national law on palliative care.
Pensions would continue to be adjusted in line with the CPI. The PP also proposes a State Pact on Dependency that raises the state contribution to 50% and a 40% deduction for expenses of professional care for an older person with dependency status.
More than 300,000 million in infrastructure and continuity of nuclear power plants
The PP commits to a National Infrastructure Plan of more than 300,000 million euros over fifteen years, with participation from the private sector. The investment would cover different transport networks and includes accelerating the Mediterranean and Atlantic rail corridors, as well as the Ruta de la Plata.
In the rail sector, the program includes a review of the more than one thousand existing temporary speed limitations on the network. It also announces a National Water Pact with investments of up to 40,000 million euros until 2030.
In energy, Feijóo commits to eliminate within the first one hundred days the shutdown calendar for the nuclear power plants of Almaraz, Ascó, Vandellós, Cofrentes and Trillo. The proposal includes removing the 7% tax on electricity generation and approving a plan to prevent new blackouts.
In foreign policy, the program defends maintaining support for Ukraine, expressly backing María Corina Machado in Venezuela, and seeking greater balance in relations with Morocco and Algeria.
For Ceuta and Melilla, the PP would ask Brussels for border treatment comparable to that received by the borders of the European Union with Russia.
The document also includes a proposal related to the 2030 FIFA World Cup: to condition Spain’s participation in the tournament on the country hosting the final.
Eight pending measures to announce and a program without an economic memory
Although the document brings together 249 numbered measures, eight of them appear reserved for their presentation during the election campaign. In the corresponding sections, the message “Stay tuned for the campaign” appears.
The pending proposals are numbers 83, 109, 132, 164, 167, 173, 200 and 210, related to corruption, older people and pensions, memory and terrorism, family, employment, agriculture, and education.
Tax cuts, the construction of one million homes, and the planned investments in infrastructure are among the largest-scale commitments, but the document does not detail how they will be funded or calculate their budgetary impact.
The training refers part of these decisions to the general audit of spending that it intends to carry out during its first one hundred days in Government. At the same time, it promises to reduce public debt and the public deficit, without specifying in this summary what adjustments or revenue would make it possible to reconcile both objectives with the measures announced.