Alberto Núñez Feijóo has started 2025 somewhat differently than he did in 2024. On the first day of last year, the Popular Party announced and starred the leader of the party. However, this January 1, the PP has limited itself to disseminating some written words from the head of the opposition through social networks, accompanied by a video with some of the most notable moments – in the opinion of the PP – of the last and intense 12 political months.
“This 2025 we ambitiously assume the responsibility of offering an alternative that restores prosperity to the Spanish people, dignity to the nation and the value of service to politics,” says Feijóo in this Tuesday’s publication, insisting on the same slogan that has been repeating in the year that has just ended. And that the head of the Popular Party closes without ruling out the possibility of calling general elections or in some autonomies governed by the Popular Party in the coming months. “2025 is going to be a very intense year for us. Don’t tell me that I’m not warning you,” Feijóo anticipated on December 16 before the National Executive Committee of his party.
With the absence of his own video this Wednesday, the leader of the popular has thus left all the focus on the traditional New Year’s speeches broadcast the day before yesterday by the presidents of the autonomous communities, 11 of them governed by the PP, which since September They have been interviewing face to face with the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, in the round of institutional meetings held in La Moncloa, with the exception of the Madrid leader, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who declined to do so. Yes, there was a handshake with his staunch enemy, a conclave that concluded without any significant agreements. The Magdalena palace served in any case as a setting to stage a mini-truce between the popular barons – the PP’s territorial muscle – and Sánchez.
The New Year’s statements of the regional presidents of the PP have once again placed the two opposite poles of the Popular Party and two of its main absolute majorities at the antipodes – with even greater distance, if possible. On the one hand, Díaz Ayuso continued to support his war against Sánchez, although without expressly citing him, ensuring that he will not give in to “indignity” and “abuse”, the infrastructure that he made the center of his strategy during the coronavirus pandemic. With the future of the complex surrounded by questions – after costing more than 150 million, it barely had an average income per day in 2023 – the baroness praised its usefulness in caring for ALS patients.
“Being the capital of Spain is an enormous responsibility and a wealth for all Spaniards,” said Ayuso. “It would be suicidal to deprive each Spaniard of an asset that has cost centuries and that resonates throughout the world, like everything that happens in each Spanish region, which resonates here in Madrid,” he added in a veiled reference to his confrontations with the central Executive. , which have included the state project to locate headquarters of new organizations outside the region.
About 700 kilometers from Zendal, and just as many from Ayuso’s argument, the Port of Algeciras, Juan Manuel Moreno, to congratulate 2025. With the choice of the Cádiz region of Campo de Gibraltar, Moreno tried to “show off” the evolution of the Andalusian economy and provide “all its support” to the Government of Spain in the negotiations on Gibraltar after the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union. The Andalusian leader once again took advantage of his end-of-year speech to show his “commitment to making politics a noble activity, of public service. Away from the continuous anger and confrontation” and defended dialogue “with the City Councils, other Autonomous Communities and the Government of Spain”, in total contrast with Ayuso.
But Moreno’s words not only distance him from the Madrid president, but also from the national leadership of the PP and Feijóo. In line with the profile set so far regarding Genoa, the president of the Board asks not to “look the other way” in the face of the “drama” of immigration. A few words loaded with symbolism when the popular Executive closed in on the reform of the immigration law to make the referral of unaccompanied minors to the Peninsula mandatory, an issue that continues into the new year.
The very hard blow of the dana, which has convulsed the PP in one of its most significant communities as an electoral engine, focused . “We cannot afford the luxury of division when what we need is to unite to rebuild and move forward,” said Mazón from the Palau, avoiding the harsh criticism that he has launched in recent weeks against the central government for aid that he considers insufficient. Of course, the head of the Consell demanded, in a veiled allusion to the central Administration, “direct and effective aid” and “ambition” when it comes to “rethinking alert systems, launching efficient hydrological infrastructures and development models that safeguard from threats.” But without affecting his own responsibilities, he informs Cristina Vazquez.
Both Mazón and other barons of the PP reiterated their request to Sánchez to undertake the reform of the regional financing system, which has expired for a decade, which they consider unfair, but towards which they show different positions depending on the territories. The central government announced that it will convene a Fiscal and Financial Policy Council this January to address debt relief, which the PP only accepts with respect to the Valencian Community.
“The splendid prospects of Aragon and the set of beneficial projects for the Aragonese also require the adequate participation of the Government of Spain,” said the Aragonese president, Jorge Azcón. “A cooperation that must be reflected in a reform of regional financing that takes into account the peculiarities of our land,” he said in his speech, less belligerent than Ayuso against Sánchez, but peppered with darts against the head of the Executive.
The president of the Region of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, appealed to the “spirit of understanding and dialogue between those who think or defend different ideological positions, it is more necessary than ever at a time when partisanship gains more space in politics than public service. and the defense of the general interest.” Murcia, Aragón and the Valencian Community, added to Extremadura, Castilla y León and the Balearic Islands are the six autonomies of the PP that . “The stability of Castilla y León allows us to generate more well-being for people with the best public services in Spain,” said the president of the community, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco.
2025 will in turn be marked by the 50th anniversary of Franco’s death, and the central one that PSOE and PP also face. In his New Year’s speech, the president of Castilla-La Mancha, the socialist Emiliano García-Page, warned that the anniversary cannot be celebrated if “half is done against the other half, or the Transition is done and used as a “a thrown element or weapon.” “Those who are attacking equality the most, those who deny it the most, are those who want privileges, be they people or territories. In reality, what they want is to end the unity,” he said.
For next year 2025, what I want most is unity. I ask to abandon frentism, populism and tension.
If what unites us takes precedence over what separates us, next year we will be able to celebrate many good things.
— Emiliano García-Page (@garciapage)
