20th National Congress of the People's Party (Spain)

The 20th National Congress of the People's Party, officially the 20th Extraordinary National Congress, was held in Seville from 1 to 2 April 2022, to renovate the leading bodies of the People's Party (PP) and establish the party's main lines of action and strategy for the next leadership term. A primary election to elect the new party president was held on 21 March. The congress was called following the forced ousting of both Pablo Casado as president and Teodoro García Egea as secretary-general in the aftermath of a major crisis that ravaged the party from 16 to 23 February. Galician president Alberto Núñez Feijóo became the party's new president.

20th National Congress of the PP

21 March 2022 (primary)
1−2 April 2022 (congress)

3,111 delegates in the 20th National Congress of the PP
Plurality of delegates needed to win
Opinion polls
Registered41,991 (primary)
Turnout36,974 (88.1%) (primary)
2,670 (85.8%) (congress, president)
 
Candidate Alberto Núñez Feijóo Blank ballots
Popular vote 36,781 (99.6%) 137 (0.4%)
Delegate vote 2,619 (98.3%) 44 (1.7%)

President before election

Pablo Casado

Elected President

Alberto Núñez Feijóo

Following her landslide victory in the 4 May 2021 regional election, Madrilenian president Isabel Díaz Ayuso came to be increasingly seen by some within the party as a better leader than Casado to face off Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in the next Spanish general election. A conflict started from September 2021 onwards when Ayuso rushed for the control of the party's regional branch in the Community of Madrid, with such a move being seen by Casado's supporters as an immediate threat to his national leadership. Following several months of a poor and erratic leadership on Casado's behalf and a disappointing party result in the self-imposed 2022 Castilian-Leonese regional election, the crisis entered a new stage on 16 February 2022 when some media revealed an alleged plot of García Egea's allies to investigate Ayuso's family in search of compromising material—more specifically, alleged influence peddling in the awarding of public contracts to Ayuso's brother. After several days of public infighting between both Casado and Ayuso, Feijóo was reported as having agreed with the latter and other party regional presidents to become the party's new leader and replace Casado, whose incoming resignation and that of García Egea were announced on 22 February after they were publicly abandoned by most of their party's colleagues.

The congress slogan was "Lo haremos bien" (Spanish: We will get it right). On 18 March 2022, it was announced that 41,681 PP members had registered to vote in the primary election scheduled for 21 March.

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