{"id":466995,"date":"2026-10-06T13:29:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T11:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/10\/06\/weber-punta-al-partido-popular-per-fare-a-meno-dellestrema-destra\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:12:12","slug":"weber-aims-for-a-spanish-partido-popular-strong-enough-to-do-without-the-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/10\/06\/weber-aims-for-a-spanish-partido-popular-strong-enough-to-do-without-the-far-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Weber aims for a Spanish Partido Popular strong enough to do without the far right"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 \u201cThe first step is to give citizens a voice. My message today is that if Alberto (N\u00fa\u00f1ez Feij\u00f3o, ed.) is strong, if the Partido Popular is even stronger, then there will be no need for any influence from more radical forces, nor will these be decisive.\u201d These were the words <\/a>of Manfred Weber<\/strong>, MEP and chair of the European People\u2019s Party (EPP) group, during a press briefing today (6 October) in Strasbourg, on the sidelines of the European Parliament\u2019s plenary session. <\/p>\n

Yesterday (5 October), the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>, announced that Spain will go to the polls on 29 November for a snap general election<\/a><\/strong>. And today, Weber did not miss the opportunity to weigh in on the matter: \u201cSpain\u2019s future is now in the hands of the Spanish people, who have a say in the matter. And at this moment, I firmly believe that Alberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez is the right man to take the lead,<\/strong>\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

 Alberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez Feij\u00f3o is the current president of the conservative Partido Popular (PP), and the leader of the opposition to S\u00e1nchez in Spain. His party in Europe is part of the EPP family, which is why <\/span>Weber is hoping for the fall of one of the last socialist strongholds in Europe. If N\u00fa\u00f1ez were to secure<\/span> \u201ca strong mandate, he would truly be able to govern Spain from a centre-right perspective and in a serious manner,\u201d Weber added. In the past, the PP entered into local and regional governing agreements with the far-right party Vox, a possibility that Weber did not rule out outright in his briefing. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Among the ranks of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the co-chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), Nicola Procaccini<\/strong>, stressed<\/a> that \u201cthe result will affect the whole of Europe and also the balance of power within the European Council, particularly in important debates concerning migration, competitiveness or the role of a state in the economy.\u201d Regarding the internal balance of power within the European Parliament and possible changes within the Socialist Group in the wake of the elections, Procaccini observed that \u201cthe model of a mixed majority between the right and the left is already in crisis,<\/strong>\u201d pointing out that \u201cshould the Socialists decide to create a sort of parliamentary \u2018Vietnam\u2019 in an attempt to win back support on the left, at that point it will be up to the European People\u2019s Party to decide.\u201d <\/p>\n

The remarks<\/a> of the leader of the Socialists (S&D), Iratxe Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez<\/strong>, were instead hopeful. She said that \u201cthe Socialist Party is standing in these elections to win\u201d and \u201cto govern the country\u201d with \u201cthe same courage and conviction we have shown over the last three years.\u201d The Spanish government<\/strong> \u201chas placed the defence of a social Europe, multilateralism, solidarity and a sound budget at the heart of the debate\u201d and is standing in these elections with \u201cthe whole of European social democracy on its side.\u201d<\/strong> Finally, regarding the balance of power within the European Parliament, the co-president of the Greens, Terry Reintke<\/strong>, stated<\/a> that her group \u201cis committed to working with pro-European forces, provided there is a clear cordon sanitaire against the far right.\u201d She also reassured that the Spanish government\u2019s decision \u201cis part of the democratic process and will not substantially destabilise the European Union.\u201d Therefore, \u201cthe elections do not scare us,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Nicola Procaccini, co-chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the result in Madrid \u201cwill have an impact on the whole of Europe and also on the balance of power within the European Council\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7908,"featured_media":466953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[26581,26643,18836,8531,22818,11101,28890,1889,20676],"class_list":["post-466995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-conservatives-and-reformers-en","tag-party-popular-european-en","tag-iratxe-garcia-perez","tag-mafred-weber","tag-nicola-procaccini","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-popular-party-en","tag-spain","tag-terry-reintke"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466996,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466995\/revisions\/466996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}