Alberto Núñez Feijóo

During Feijóo's governments in Galicia, Eulen, a group where his sister Micaela Núñez Feijóo held senior positions, secured a substantial volume of contracts and services from the Xunta. The opposition repeatedly called for an investigation or audit, citing possible preferential treatment, while certain cases raised suspicions of early access to information.

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Direct responsibility

Feijóo's Galician government abandoned public financing for Vigo's new hospital in favour of a public-private concession. In 2024, the Consello de Contas concluded that the chosen solution had not been preceded by a sufficiently comprehensive feasibility study and that publicly funded construction with separate service contracts would have cost less; the present-value difference was estimated at approximately 166 million euros over twenty years.

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Political responsibility

During the 2023 general election campaign, Feijóo repeatedly made factually disputed claims. Notably, he asserted that the PP had always increased pensions in line with the CPI before acknowledging an "inaccuracy". In the televised debate, he also attributed the closure of the Pegasus case to a lack of cooperation by the Spanish government, whereas the decision primarily cited Israel's lack of judicial cooperation.

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Personally implicated

Photographs revealed that Alberto Núñez Feijóo travelled and spent holidays in the 1990s with Marcial Dorado, who was subsequently convicted of cocaine trafficking and money laundering. Police wiretaps also showed that their contacts continued into the early 2000s, later than Feijóo had initially suggested.

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Following revelations of personal ties between Feijóo and Marcial Dorado, public procurement data showed that the Xunta had awarded nearly 294,000 euros in contracts to Dorado-linked companies over approximately twenty years. Some contracts predated Feijóo's presidency, and the health services he headed when the photographs were taken had not contracted with those companies during that period.

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Institutional responsibility

Weeks before the 2012 Galician elections, Feijóo presented several Pemex ship orders for Galician shipyards as guaranteed. Subsequent documents and statements showed that certain transactions remained subject to conditions precedent, tender procedures or future approvals, fuelling accusations that commercial prospects had been presented as electoral certainties.

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Political responsibility