Tellado vindicates the PP as "the party of the hard workers" amid the 11N general strike and defends Feijóo's plan for 29N: "We will change propaganda for management"

The general secretary of the PP and director of its campaign, Miguel Tellado, defended this Wednesday in Huesca that the challenge of the November 29 elections is "to change propaganda for management". Two days before the official start of the campaign, he presented Alberto Núñez Feijóo's program as the way to give Spain a "different and better" government and recovered one of his main commitments, to build one million homes in the next legislature.

Tellado met with party officials alongside the president of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, and the general secretary of the Aragonese PP, Ana Alós. He vindicated the management of the regional Executive as an example of what Feijóo wants to do from La Moncloa. The event came a day after the candidate presented 'National Reconstruction' in Madrid, the program with which he will run for 29N.

One million homes in four years

Tellado has called for a State pact on housing so that the Government, communities and city councils collaborate in the construction of new homes. The PP's program proposes a new Land Law, mobilizing public and private land and resolving building permits in three months. Reaching one million homes in four years would require finishing an average of 250,000 per year. In the first half of 2026, 51,406 were completed in Spain.

The PP leader also defended reforming the Penal Code to facilitate evictions in 48 hours in cases of illegal occupation, prohibiting pardons for politicians convicted of corruption and approving the Budgets every year. He called for strengthening border control and favoring legal immigration, as well as boosting the primary sector. In infrastructure, he claimed a 300,000 million euro plan over fifteen years that includes the modernization of the railway network.

The debate on housing will return to Congress this Thursday, where the Permanent Deputation will vote on the decrees that extend protection against evictions, allow certain leases to be extended and provide for compensation for some tenants if the owner terminates the contract. The PP voted against the first two versions on October 2.

Tellado accuses unions of campaigning for Sánchez

Tellado has described the general strike on 11N as "preventive" against a possible Feijóo government and has presented it as "the last service" of the unions to Pedro Sánchez. He has accused the unions of "waking up from their nap" after eight years and has claimed the PP as "the party of the workers". He has also asked for respect for both those who supported the strike and those who went to work.

Comisiones Obreras (CCOO), the General Union of Workers (UGT), the Confederation of Tenants' Unions, and other organizations registered the call on October 19 to demand affordable rents, wage improvements, and the strengthening of public services. In their first assessment, the conveners highlighted the participation in industry and ports. The Tenants' Union has estimated that about four million people joined the strike during the morning.

The general secretary of the PP also promised to audit Sánchez's eight years in government and cited 23 types of crimes, 17 summaries, and 131 investigated individuals, figures from a count prepared by his party on proceedings at different stages. Among the cases he mentioned are the conviction of former minister José Luis Ábalos to 24 years and three months in prison for the mask case and the investigation by the Audiencia Nacional in which the director general of the Civil Guard, Mercedes González, and her deputy operational director, Manuel Llamas, are involved.

Tellado also reproached Sánchez for recording Jordi Wild's podcast in Manresa on Tuesday while the funeral for the 69 people who died in the Urda accident was being held in Toledo. The ceremony, presided over by the Kings, was attended by Feijóo and, representing the Executive, the first vice president and Minister of Transport, Carlos Cuerpo, and the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, among other government members.

The PP leader attributed the dissemination of the Urda audios to the Government to blame a worker and reproached the unions for their silence. The railway sector of CCOO filed a criminal complaint on November 3 for the leak and also went to the Spanish Data Protection Agency. The Prosecutor's Office has reported the dissemination of the recordings to the Madrid courts after examining the facts following another complaint, that of Alternativa Ferroviaria.