Alberto Núñez Feijóo

After the joint United States and Israeli attack on Iran in which Ali Khamenei was killed, Feijóo said the world is better when a tyrant falls, while also asking for restraint and a negotiated way out.

“the world is better when a tyrant falls”

In Spanish: el mundo es mejor cuando cae un tirano

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Welcoming the fall of the Islamic Republic's leader after strikes on the regime, instead of condemning the strikes, counts as with liberty.

In the same statement Feijóo spoke of the Iranians persecuted for defending basic freedoms and credited Iranian women with leading the resistance.

“And it has been Iranian women who, with admirable determination, have led the resistance to oppression”

In Spanish: Y han sido las mujeres iraníes quienes, con una determinación admirable, han encabezado la resistencia frente a la opresión

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Speaking for Iranians, and Iranian women in particular, against their rulers counts as with liberty.

At a FAES event Feijóo criticised the government for condemning the Israeli people, whom he described as the only democracy in the Middle East and still waiting for their hostages. In the same speech he spoke of a massacre in Gaza and did not use the word genocide.

“It is not normal to condemn the Israeli people, who are still waiting for the release of their innocent hostages, or to have to recall that it is the only working democracy in the Middle East.”

In Spanish: No es normal que se condene al pueblo israelí que todavía espera la liberación de sus rehenes inocentes y que se deba recordar que representa la única democracia vigente en Oriente Medio.

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Defending Israel as a democracy against the government's condemnation counts as with liberty.

The PP deputies in Congress, the group Feijóo leads, voted against the decree law that put an arms embargo on Israel. It was ratified with the votes of the other groups.

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Voting against an arms embargo on Israel counts as with liberty.

Feijóo received Edmundo González in Congress and called him the president-elect of Venezuela, after Congress passed a PP motion asking the government to recognise him.

“Today I had the honour of meeting the president-elect of Venezuela in Congress, where he has been recognised as such. I am fully committed, politically and morally, to the Venezuelan people.”

In Spanish: Hoy he tenido el honor de entrevistarme con el presidente electo de Venezuela en el Congreso, donde ha sido reconocido como tal. Estoy totalmente comprometido política y moralmente con el pueblo venezolano.

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Recognising the opposition winner against Maduro is standing against one of the client regimes the measure names.

In a television interview Feijóo defended Ukraine's territorial integrity and said no peace is possible without Ukraine's president and the European Union at the table.

“There can be no peace in Ukraine if the president of Ukraine and the European Union are not sitting at the table, and I hope and wish that the United States changes its position”

In Spanish: No puede haber paz en Ucrania si no está sentado a la mesa el presidente de Ucrania y la Unión Europea y espero y deseo que cambie de postura los Estados Unidos

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Backing Ukraine against Russia counts as with liberty.

Feijóo criticised the Interior Ministry for giving the Chinese company Huawei a contract to store police wiretap data.

“The European Union and NATO say this company should be barred, and Spain hires it”

In Spanish: La Unión Europea y la OTAN dicen que esta empresa debe ser vetada y España le contrata

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Siding with NATO and the European Union against a company tied to Beijing counts as with liberty.

Feijóo told ambassadors of NATO and European Union countries that investing 2% of GDP in defence is a necessary condition and an obligation as an ally, according to the PP's statement on the meeting.

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Calling the NATO spending target an obligation counts as with liberty.

In 2024 the PP voted with the government parties to let a citizens' bill to regularise about 500,000 foreigners begin its passage through Congress. Only Vox voted against.

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Against liberty

Voting to take up a mass regularisation bill counts as against liberty, even though the party said it would settle its final position later.

Feijóo opposed the government's decree to give legal status to about 500,000 migrants living in Spain without papers.

“This goes against European law and against the agreements of the Congress of Deputies, with no information at all and by royal decree. I think this is nonsense”

In Spanish: Se está yendo contra la legislación europea, contra los acuerdos del Congreso de los Diputados, sin ningún tipo de información y por real decreto. Yo creo que esto es un disparate

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Opposing a mass regularisation counts as with liberty.

Feijóo said the PP wants to ban the burka and the niqab in public spaces. He said the headscarf should stay allowed.

“Any garment that attacks the dignity of women or security in public spaces must be banned in our country”

In Spanish: Toda aquella vestimenta que atente contra la dignidad de la mujer o contra la seguridad en espacios públicos debe de ser prohibida en nuestro país

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A ban on the full veil counts as with liberty.

The PP filed an amendment to throw out a bill that would remove the crime of offending religious feelings from the Penal Code, calling any change to it unnecessary.

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Against liberty

Keeping a crime of offending religious feelings is keeping a blasphemy law, which counts as against liberty.

The PP announced that it would change the housing law to remove the zones where rents can be capped.

“We will change the housing law, remove the stressed zones and the interventionism, and replace them with measures that increase the supply of homes”

In Spanish: Modificaremos la ley de vivienda, eliminaremos las zonas tensionadas y el intervencionismo y lo sustituiremos por acciones que promuevan el incremento de la oferta de viviendas

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Ending rent controls counts as with liberty.

In Congress Feijóo opposed Sánchez's plan to regulate the media and told him to stop threatening censorship.

“This could end in the biggest attack on freedom of information in Spanish democracy”

In Spanish: Esto puede acabar con el mayor ataque a la libertad de información de la democracia española

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Opposing government rules over the media counts as with liberty.

The same PP amendment defends keeping the crimes of insulting the Crown and insulting national symbols, and proposes prison of one to three years for messages or posters that glorify terrorism.

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Against liberty

Keeping and widening speech crimes counts as against liberty, whoever the target is.

Feijóo said that if he governs he will repeal the Trans law, which lets people change their legal sex by declaration, and pass a different one.

“It is much easier to change your sex legally than to pass the university entrance exam. It is much easier to change sex than to get a driving licence”

In Spanish: Es mucho más fácil cambiarse legalmente de sexo que aprobar la selectividad. Es mucho más fácil cambiarse de sexo que sacar el carnet de conducir

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Opposing a gender self-identification law counts as with liberty.