Spain's Opposition Unveils Hardline Election Manifesto as Feijóo Vows Tighter Borders and Slower Climate Goals
MADRID — Spain's main opposition People's Party (PP) unveiled its election manifesto on Tuesday, 10 November, promising to cut taxes, tighten borders, impose stricter conditions on development aid and slow climate timetables, 19 days before Spaniards vote in a snap general election on 29 November, Reuters reported. The manifesto, presented by PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo at a party event in Madrid, is the clearest statement yet of what a conservative government led by the PP would do in office — and it marks a sharp break with the migration, climate and housing policies of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's Socialist government. Migration dominates the document: the PP promises to ban what it calls "mass and indiscriminate regularisation", set annual work-visa quotas tied to cooperation on returns, and deploy the Armed Forces to support border control when national security requires it. Opinion polls put the PP ahead of Sánchez's Socialists, but the party wou...