Spain's Popular Party picks new leader with eye on winning back far-right voters


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  • Saturday, 02 Apr 2022

FILE PHOTO: Galician President and member of the People's Party (PP) Alberto Nunez Feijoo talks to reporters outside a polling station after voting in Galician regional elections in Vigo, northern Spain, September 25, 2016. REUTERS/Miguel Vidal/File Photo

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's conservative People's Party elected Alberto Nuñez Feijoo as its new leader on Saturday in the hope of winning back voters from a growing far right and firming up its increasingly shaky position as the country's main opposition force.

Feijoo, who won 98.35% of the vote, was the only candidate to lead the PP after an internal scandal brought down previous leader Pablo Casado and tipped the party, which for decades traded power with the incumbent Socialists, into crisis.

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