The PSOE portrays Feijóo for hiding how much the Popular Party pays him: "Transparency for others"

Alberto Núñez Feijóo has turned Pedro Sánchez's personal accounts into another front of opposition, although his own income remains outside public scrutiny. The president of the Popular Party recently demanded that the head of the Executive show his income tax return. Citizens, meanwhile, still do not know how much Feijóo currently earns from Génova nor what changes his assets have undergone since he entered Congress.

The last declaration of assets and income presented by the popular leader is dated August 2023, but the income included corresponds to the 2022 fiscal year. That document included his salary as president of the Xunta and Galician deputy, his parliamentary remunerations and the payments received from the party and the Popular Group in the Senate. The sum then exceeded 150,000 gross euros, compared to the approximately 86,000 that Pedro Sánchez received that year as president of the Government. Since then, Feijóo has not made public his income for 2023, 2024, or 2025.

The PSOE has taken advantage of this contradiction to hit back. "Feijóo demanding transparency, for others", the party wrote on its social networks, contrasting his demands on Sánchez with the silence about the amounts he receives from the PP.

A snapshot of Feijóo's accounts taken in 2022

The declaration that remains published in Congress allows us to know what Feijóo's assets were like four years ago. It included several homes, a rustic property, investments, shares, a pension plan, rental income, and dividends. It also revealed that during his first nine months as president of the PP, he collected 71,110 euros apart from his salary as a senator, of which 39,260 came directly from the party as "representation expenses".

The current information is much more limited. Feijóo lives in a property located in El Viso, one of the most expensive neighborhoods in Madrid, but he still has not specified whether the PP gives him any amount intended to cover that accommodation. When Sánchez asked him in Congress how much his party paid him for housing, the popular leader replied that the rent was paid by his family and included himself and his partner in that explanation. The answer left unclear whether he continues to receive representation expenses or what their amount is.

It is also not known whether he maintains all the properties declared in 2023, whether he has sold any, whether he has acquired other assets, or whether the same rental income and investments continue. The PP has limited itself to informing ‘elDiario.es’ that "everything remains the same", without providing a documentary update or answering questions about the remunerations it pays to its president.

The delay also has a political particularity. Feijóo belongs to the Permanent Deputation of Congress, the body that remains in operation when the Cortes are dissolved. If he maintains the criterion applied during these years, his exit declaration could be published when the next general elections have already been held and the new Chambers are constituted. Voters would go to the polls without an updated list of the income and assets of the person aspiring to preside over the Government.

The law obliges to communicate relevant changes

Article 160 of the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime establishes that deputies and senators must declare the activities that provide them with income and their assets when they acquire or lose their seat, in addition to updating the information "when their circumstances change".

The legal services of Congress interpret that this obligation affects substantial changes and not every small variation in a current account or an investment. The purchase and sale of a home, the contracting of a mortgage, or the appearance of a recurring source of income would fall within the assumptions that should be communicated. The problem is that the Chamber lacks an ex officio verification mechanism and its Regulations do not include a specific sanctioning regime for those who omit an update.

To this parliamentary demand is added the Transparency Law approved in 2013 during the Government of Mariano Rajoy. The norm expressly includes political parties among the obligated entities and establishes that they must publish each year the remunerations received by their senior officials and top leaders. The PP also does not offer on its portal an updated list of the amounts paid to Feijóo and the rest of its leadership.

The legal payments of the party or its parliamentary groups can take the form of supplements or representation expenses. The controversy focuses on their lack of publicity, especially when they accumulate to the public salary of the leaders and the regulations require reporting on these incomes.

Silence extends to a large part of the popular leadership

The situation is repeated among the main officials of Génova. Miguel Tellado declared in 2023 the income he had received during 2022 as a Galician parliamentarian and vicesecretary of the PP. He subsequently reported the purchase of a home, his mortgage, and the deregistration of a vehicle, but still does not detail how much he received as spokesperson in Congress nor what remuneration he now has as general secretary.

Cuca Gamarra keeps published the 26,860 euros she collected from the PP and the 28,759 from the parliamentary group in 2022. Ester Muñoz has updated the purchase and sale of properties and a monthly rental income, although she also does not include any possible supplements received since she joined the national leadership. The declarations of Borja Sémper, Elías Bendodo, Juan Bravo, Carmen Fúnez or Alicia García also offer data prior to the responsibilities they currently hold.

The exception is Alma Ezcurra. The vicesecretary of Sectoral Coordination, obligated by European Parliament regulations, revised her declaration in September 2025 and reported that the PP pays her 2,000 euros monthly for her organic position. Her case confirms that information can be published clearly when the institutional framework requires periodic updating.

The PSOE has also registered an initiative for Congress to demand a complete declaration of assets, monetary income, and in-kind remunerations from the head of the opposition, including any contribution related to his current home. The proposal must be submitted for debate while Feijóo's official file continues to show the income he received in 2022.