Feijóo wants to run Spain like a CEO. Not easy with far-right Vox on the board.

Key Points:

• Spain’s center-right People’s Party (PP) is campaigning on a message of sober, competent management to lead the country, positioning itself as a steady “CEO” amid public frustration with the current Socialist government’s corruption scandals.
• The PP faces an identity challenge as it likely needs to form a coalition with the far-right Vox party, whose populist and incendiary style contrasts sharply with the PP’s low-drama, managerial approach.
• Vox continues to push a highly vocal and confrontational campaign, focusing on anti-migration rhetoric and political drama, which risks undermining the PP’s appeal to centrist voters and complicating coalition dynamics.
• The Socialist Party criticizes the PP’s claims of responsible governance, highlighting past mismanagement such as the Valencia floods crisis and accusing the PP of hypocrisy and weakening public services.
• Despite tensions, the PP and Vox currently maintain a strategic truce to defeat the Socialists, but political analysts predict significant post-election friction and challenges for PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo in managing Vox’s influence within a coalition government.