20.43 million euros of benefits. It is the accounting result of the PP in 2024, according to the accounts published by the match on its website this month of July and that are not yet audited by the Court of Accounts. There are 18 million more than in 2023, when 1.7 million positive. eldiario.es has transferred to the PP a dozen questions about their accounts. The PP has not responded.
The party led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo declares public revenues of 43.5 million, almost half for contributions from parliamentary groups. The rest are subsidies for operation or electoral results. Private PP financing sources are more limited. Just 8.1 million euros. Of these, 3.2 million come from quotas of militants. About four euros for each of the 804,914 affiliates that he declares to have.
Public income is thus the great source of financing of the PP. Since Feijóo is the leader, the game has gone from 30.8 million in 2022 to the current 43.5. 13 million euros more, a 41% increase thanks to the improvement of electoral results and the consequent increase in direct subsidies.
In the income chapter of the accounts signed by the director of Finance (formerly treasurer), Carmen Navarro, an extraordinary figure is also collected without explaining. The PP records 11.2 million euros as “exceptional income.” The amount is huge if compared to the previous year: just 90,000 euros. In 2022 there were 55,000 euros. Figure similar to those of 2021 and 2022.
The PP has not responded to Eldiario.es for the origin of those 11 million euros.
Institutional groups, a hole for the Court of Accounts
The second Gran of PP financing is also public. They are the contributions made by institutional groups to the National Directorate. An opaque system and criticized by the Court of Accounts that the Feijóo party refuses to explain year after year. eldiario.es has asked about it without obtaining any response.
The institutional groups contributed to the PP in 2024 20.6 million euros, 4.3 million less than in 2023. The group that contributes most is that of the Andalusia PP chaired by Juan Manuel Moreno: 5.2 million euros. A lot of distance are the parliamentary groups in the Galician Parliament and the Madrid Assembly, with 900,000 euros respectively. Those of the Congress and Senate contribute, according to official accounts, 573,000 and 600,000 euros. Local groups 'pay' also to the National Directorate: Cádiz (793,043 euros) or Malaga (662,300 euros) lead the classification.
The Court of Auditors considers this practice an “superfinance” of political formations, a legal route to increase its resources to which the supervisory body has been requested for years with limits with regulatory reforms and the law of the local regime that establish the “conditions and requirements” in which contributions can be made that, often, are used to cover ordinary expenses of the parties or hire personnel.
The PP has not responded to Eldiario.es on these contributions, how they decide and in concept of what they enter.
Less income from militants than with Pablo Casado
The evolution of private income has also been positive, although less. The PP declared in 2022 in this chapter 6.5 million. In 2024 the amount was 8.1 million, an increase of less than 25%.
Especially striking is the drop in income from the quotas of the militants. Despite declaring more affiliates than in 2023, the PP collects in the accounting of 2024 a decrease in the contributions that, according to the statutes, must necessarily do all those registered to the party.
“The affiliates as of January 1, 2024 were 800,519 and as of December 31, 2024, 804,914 have been computed,” collects the document published by the PP. 4,400 more militants. But the party declares 3.2 million euros in this concept, almost 300.00 euros less than a year earlier.
The minimum contribution of each militant is set by the National Executive Committee and, according to different media in recent years, unless Feijóo has changed it at some point and has not been informed, that minimum is 20 euros. eldiario.es has asked the PP what is the quota paid by its militants and how many are up to date, without obtaining an answer.
The income of militants declared by the PP in 2024 are even lower than those counted in the last year of Pablo Casado at the head of the party, in 2021, and that then the number of affiliates was significantly lower.
The PP closed 2020 with 778,046 declared affiliates. 2021 with 777,971. He traced Feijóo in Genoa: he closed 2022 with 794,344 and in 2023 he exceeded, by little, 800,000.
And how many income was declared in those years? In 2020, 2.7 million. In 2021, 3.3 million, more than in 2024 with Feijóo but with almost 30,000 less affiliates.
The decalage between the affiliates declared by the PP and its income is the most palpable evidence that the party does not declare the real militants it has. The culmen occurred with Mariano Rajoy in front, when the game came to report 869,535 militants.
The statutes indicate that the militant who does not pay his fee for 12 months will be sanctioned with the “affiliate condition.” Thus, if the PP fulfills its statutes each militant paid a single annual fee of 4 euros, approximately also indicates that 0.7% of these income will be allocated to non -profit organizations, something that is not collected in the accounts.
Being affiliated allows, among other things, to participate in internal processes. In the recent XXI National Congress of the PP were recorded to participate 51,634 people
Feijóo doubles spending on “external services”
In the expenses chapter, the 2024 accounts confirm an internal structural change that has occurred, and settled, since the arrival of Alberto Núñez Feijóo: the use of “external services”, oblivious to the party.
The PP has doubled the expense in this chapter since the Galician assumed command in 2022. In 2021 it meant 11.3 million. In 2022 it amounted to 15.3. Feijóo landed in Madrid in April of that year. Already in 2023 the figure climbed at 24.9 million. In 2024 it remained at 20.6 million.
Under that epigraph, the hiring of the work of the party to foreign personnel, to external companies, which in electoral years often increase their work for political organizations are noted. And, indeed, 2023 and 2024 were.
What has been reduced is the number of payroll workers. According to official accounts, there are nine people less hired by the organization.
This was reflected by the director of Finance of the PP, Carmen Navarro, in her accountability in the recent National Congress, where she explained that the electoral results have “had a very significant impact on the results accounts.” The Treasurer stressed that savings allow to go to “upcoming electoral processes with greater strength” in the face of “banking loans.”
Navarro mentioned the increase in “contributions from institutional groups” and “in private income for contributions of public office.” But he gave a pull of ears to the representatives of the PP in the institutions and said that these contributions “could increase.” “There is room,” he insisted.
And that the contributions of public positions have risen during Feijóo's mandate in parallel to the evident electoral improvements of the PP from the departure of Pablo Casado.
In 2024 the PP entered for this concept almost 4.3 million, for the 3 that was pointed out in 2023. In 2022 the figure was 2.6 million and in 2021 of 2.4.
