Feijóo anticipates "team renewal" and ideological rearmament in the PP at the July congress.

The PP president justifies the decision to hold an extraordinary conclave in two months because "no one knows how long this inert legislature will last" and because "Spain's leading party needs a new lease of life and preparations for a possible government."

The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo , has pressed the button for a new electoral cycle, which seeks to bring about a renewal of his party's thinking, changes in the party's leadership and the reinforcement of its authority and leadership, which will be examined in the first week of July .

Just one day after announcing the call for an extraordinary congress for July 5 and 6, almost a year in advance of the date it was originally scheduled to be held (according to the Statutes, it was scheduled for April 2026), Feijóo justified the decision to bring forward the date on Tuesday because "nobody knows how long this inert legislature will last" and because "Spain's leading party needs a new impetus and preparations for a possible government ."

This was stated on Tuesday during an event organized by the General Council of Economists, where he gave a lecture entitled "A Spain that Works Again ." The leader of the Popular Party (PP) addressed accusations of discouragement and weariness leveled at him from within the Sánchez camp, stating, "I am more convinced and excited than ever to be able to serve my country." In fact, he made it clear that the objective of the conclave is to strengthen his leadership and his profile as a presidential candidate, so that if "the 2022 congress was a response to the problems of the PP," the "congress in 2025 will be a response to the problems of Spain ."

In an eminently electoral key, to the point that Sánchez is considering calling general elections in 2026 to coincide with the Andalusian elections, Feijóo has seen the time come to "ask my party for a time of reflection, analysis, diagnosis... a time to renew teams and have the party organized for a purpose, which is to have a national project for Spain when the elections are called," because "in my opinion, the President of the Government is weaker than ever and I am going to present the PP stronger than ever ."

This renewal of the PP leadership, the details and names of which will not be known until the eve of the extraordinary congress: "I make decisions when they are necessary, and it is not my turn to make that decision until July 4 or 5 , I would not like to rush," he stated, will be accompanied by a review of the party's internal democracy, in order to "resolve the Gordian knot" that, in his opinion, exists with the current primary system , which made Pablo Casado successor to Mariano Rajoy in 2018, and to devise "a national project for Spain" with five major "structural" reforms in the fiscal, with tax cuts, because "it is possible to lower taxes and collect the same or more"; education, administration, infrastructure and energy, betting on the maintenance of nuclear energy.

Feijóo's speech also served as an outline and a taste of his future government program, in a context in which "Spain needs an ambitious reform program" because "we have gone seven years without structural reforms, living off inertia." And with the Budget extended from 2023. " The Spanish economy cannot be managed in 2026 with a budget approved in 2022" -- which came into effect in 2023 --, also denouncing the government's failure to comply with its constitutional obligations to present its accounts in the last quarter of the year. "And this government has neither presented them in 2024 nor in 2025. It's not that we are extending the Budget, we are extending the extension," he said.

Although the leader of the Popular Party (PP) has mentioned various issues, such as the economy, housing, and immigration, he has emphasized the high taxation that, in his opinion, the country suffers from, assuring that Spaniards do not have to be "condemned to pay 138 billion more in taxes than we paid in 2018; that is, 42% more revenue." In the same way, Spain is not "condemned to be the leader in unemployment in the entire EU," or to "the most common salary beginning to resemble the minimum interprofessional wage," or to eternally suffer the great structural evils of its economy: "High taxes, high debt, and high public deficit."

With the extraordinary congress less than two months away, Feijóo emphasized his goal of articulating a feasible and potentially winning alternative to free Spain from "the trap that the government" of Pedro Sánchez has put us in over the last seven years, but to do so , that alternative "must be much better prepared than the government ," he noted, thus justifying the far-reaching changes that the conclave promises to bring to the main opposition party.