Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Spain’s opposition leader: ‘Whether a coalition government with Vox is formed does not depend on me’

Spain’s conservative People’s Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo is ahead in polls before the 29 November election, but may need support from the far-right Vox party to govern. He says his preference is a PP government with a comfortable majority of its own, while accepting that election results could require a coalition and insisting negotiations would need clear rules and red lines.

Feijóo points to existing PP-Vox regional governments in Extremadura, Aragón, Castilla y León and Andalusia as precedent. He rejects relying on the Socialist PSOE’s abstention to avoid Vox, calling that idea naïve under Pedro Sánchez’s leadership. The campaign debate centres on whether a national agreement with Vox would be formed and how power would be shared.