What has the PP said about the Gibraltar treaty?

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The PP has opposed the 2026 UK/EU Treaty in relation to Gibraltar as negotiated, arguing that Spain loses under it and that the Spanish Parliament should have voted on it. Its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has also called the treaty's entry into application good news, while saying it must be completed, including through tax equalisation with the Campo de Gibraltar.
The PP (Partido Popular) is the main opposition party in Spain and leads the polls ahead of the general election on Sunday 29 November 2026. Its public record on the treaty, in date order, is as follows.
Thursday 26 February 2026: when the treaty text was published, PP sources told El Español that any agreement on Gibraltar had to be authorised by the Congress and the Senate for constitutional reasons.
Wednesday 4 March 2026: speaking in Bilbao, Feijóo said that Spain loses and the United Kingdom wins under the treaty, argued that it is a mixed agreement that the Spanish Parliament must validate, and called for a binding vote in Congress.
May 2026: the PP supported a Vox motion against the treaty in the Spanish Parliament's Joint Committee for the European Union, which passed by 20 votes to 12. PP deputy Carlos Floriano said it was incomprehensible that the Government had not used Brexit to strengthen Spain's historic claims.
Wednesday 15 July 2026: on the day the treaty began to apply, Feijóo described this as good news but said the treaty must be completed so that it does not become a weakness for Spain. He backed the call by Andalusia's president, Juanma Moreno, for tax equalisation between Gibraltar and the Campo de Gibraltar, and said he would defend it from government.
On the same day, the PP described the start of provisional application as a fraud, because the Spanish Parliament had not approved it.
Tuesday 8 September 2026: six PP members of the European Parliament tabled an amendment asking the Parliament to refuse its consent to the treaty.
The Gibraltar Government's response: on Sunday 21 June 2026, asked by Spanish journalists whether a future PP-led government might seek to suspend the treaty, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said that any politician who tried to bring less fluidity and less shared prosperity would be foolish. He suggested the PP could keep blaming the PSOE for the agreement while letting people keep its benefits, and said he believed the PP's reaction would have been the same whatever the text, because the PP had not negotiated it.
In the sources reviewed, the PP has not said that a PP-led government would seek to end the treaty. Its manifesto for the 2026 election has not yet been published, and this answer will be updated when it is.

What has the PP said about the Gibraltar treaty?

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