Leader of the Opposition | |
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Líder de la oposición | |
![]() Logo of the largest party in opposition | |
since 2 April 2022 | |
Residence | No official residence |
Appointer | None |
Term length | No fixed term |
Inaugural holder | Manuel Fraga |
Formation | 28 December 1982 (formally) 8 February 1983 (officially) |
The Leader of the Opposition (Spanish: Líder de la oposición) is an unofficial, mostly conventional and honorary title frequently (but not exclusively) held by the leader of the largest party in the Congress of Deputies—the lower house of the Spanish parliament, the Cortes Generales—not within the government. They are usually the person who is expected to lead that party into the next general election.
From 31 October 2016 to 18 June 2017, the title was disputed between the two largest parties in the left, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and Podemos. The position was left nominally vacant after Mariano Rajoy's government was ousted in a motion of no confidence on 2 June 2018, until the election of Pablo Casado as new PP leader. From 23 February 2022, the position was again left vacant following the ousting of Casado by most of the leading members of his party, led by Galician and Madrilenian presidents Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
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