People's Party (Spain)

The People's Party^[24] (Spanish: Partido Popular [paɾˈtiðo popuˈlaɾ] ^ⓘ; known mostly by its acronym, PP [peˈpe]) is a conservative^[25][14] and Christian-democratic^[14][16] political party in Spain.

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People's Party Partido Popular
Abbreviation	PP
President	Alberto Núñez Feijóo
Secretary-General	Cuca Gamarra
Spokesperson in Congress	Miguel Tellado
Spokesperson in Senate	Alicia García
Founder	Manuel Fraga
Founded	20 January 1989 (1989-01-20)
Merger of	People's Alliance Christian Democracy Liberal Party
Headquarters	Headquarters of the People's Party, C/ Génova, 13 28004, Madrid
Youth wing	New Generations
Membership (2018)	66,706[1][2][3]
Ideology	Conservatism[11] Liberal conservatism[15] Christian democracy[18] Economic liberalism[19][20]
Political position	Centre-right[21] to right-wing[22]
European affiliation	European People's Party
International affiliation	Centrist Democrat International International Democracy Union
European Parliament group	European People's Party
Colours	Sky blue
Anthem	"Himno del Partido Popular"[23] "Anthem of the People's Party"
Congress of Deputies	137 / 350
Senate	140 / 266
European Parliament (Spanish seats)	14 / 59
Regional parliaments	465 / 1,261
Regional governments	13 / 19
Local government	23,412 / 60,941
Website
www.pp.es
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The People's Party was a 1989 re-foundation of People's Alliance (AP), a party led by former minister Manuel Fraga. It was founded in 1976 as alliance of post-Francoist proto-parties. The new party combined the conservative AP with several small Christian democratic and liberal parties (the party calling this fusion of views "the Reformist Centre"). In 2002, Manuel Fraga received the honorary title of "Founding Chairman". The party's youth organization is New Generations of the People's Party of Spain (NNGG).

The PP is a member of the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), and in the European Parliament its 16 MEPs sit in the EPP Group. The PP is also a member of the Centrist Democrat International and the International Democracy Union. The PP was also one of the founding organizations of the Budapest-based Robert Schuman Institute for Developing Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe.

On 24 May 2018, the National Court found that the PP profited from the illegal kickbacks-for-contracts scheme of the Gürtel case, confirming the existence of an illegal accounting and financing structure that ran in parallel with the party's official one since the party's foundation in 1989; the court ruled that the PP helped establish "a genuine and effective system of institutional corruption through the manipulation of central, autonomous and local public procurement".^[26][27] This prompted a no confidence vote on Mariano Rajoy's government, which was brought down on 1 June 2018 in the first successful motion since the Spanish transition to democracy.^[28] On 5 June 2018, Rajoy announced his resignation as PP leader.^[29][30]

On 21 July 2018, Pablo Casado was elected as the new leader of the PP. Under his leadership, the party was claimed to take a right-wing turn, including forging local alliances with the far-right Vox party.^[31] However, Casado later bet on breaking ties with Vox,^[32] and caused an unprecedented leadership crisis inside PP.^[33] After this there were rumors that Casado had ordered to spy on the popular president of the community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, for alleged irregularities, which collapsed popular support for PP according to opinion polls for future national elections,^[34] being resolved with the resignation of Casado and the appointment of the veteran Alberto Núñez Feijóo as the new leader, which improved the electoral expectations of the party.^{[citation needed]} The party was the most voted one in the 2023 general election, but it failed to secure a parliamentary majority.^[35][36]