Partido Popular

The Partido Popular (PP) is Spain's principal centre-right opposition party, led nationally by Alberto Núñez Feijóo since April 2022. The party governs several of Spain's seventeen comunidades autónomas, including the Comunidad de Madrid (Isabel Díaz Ayuso), Andalusia (Juanma Moreno) and Galicia (Alfonso Rueda), and is represented in national debates by figures including Madrid mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida.

As the largest opposition party, PP's regional governments give it direct administrative control over housing, planning and public services in the areas it runs, which frequently puts it in the position of implementing or resisting central-government policy at the regional level, most visibly in the co-financing and permitting arrangements for national housing programmes.

PP-governed regions including Madrid, Andalusia and Galicia sit at the centre of the Plan Estatal de Vivienda 2026-2030's 60/40 co-financing arrangement with central government. On 28 April 2026 PP voted with Vox and Junts to defeat the PSOE-Sumar government's decree extending the rental price-freeze for two further years, leaving tenants who had filed prórroga requests in legal limbo. Madrid mayor Almeida used the floor moment to claim the city would triple its 150,000-home target, without attaching permits, a schedule or a funding line.

That April defeat has continued to shape the government's approach: when Sumar and Junts negotiated a replacement mandatory-extension decree through July 2026, the earlier PP-Vox-Junts bloc that sank the May version of the decree was cited by Coalition negotiators as the reason a landlord tax concession was needed to hold the government's own majority together.

PP's position throughout has been that housing pressure is a supply and planning-permissions problem best solved through construction and deregulation rather than rent controls or mandatory extensions, a stance consistent with its administration of Spain's fastest-building regions.