Alberto Núñez Feijóo, PP leader, responded to Begoña Gómez's assault complaint against Vito Quiles by asking who has shown violent attitudes. He stated he does not believe such attitudes are shared by Spanish society. Alfonso Serrano from Madrid PP defended that a party's duty is not to target journalists.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Popular Party leader, attended events on May 2, 2026, for Madrid Community Day. Asked in a press conference about the assault complaint by Begoña Gómez, the Government president's wife, against agitator Vito Quiles, Feijóo asked: “Who are the ones who have had some type of violent attitude? That's what's important”.
Feijóo added he has seen that both Gómez and the journalist have filed complaints and that “we will see what happened”. He stated he does not believe “that type of attitudes” are “shared by Spanish society”, though he mentioned similar past attitudes by PP officials in his home, without explicitly condemning the incident.
Alfonso Serrano, Madrid PP general secretary, stated: “The duty of a party is not to target journalists”. Serrano avoided judging Quiles's actions, a journalist with an open file in Congress and prosecuted for libel in Seville. Both leaders spoke at Madrid's Real Casa de Correos.
Gómez's complaint concerns a late April incident in a Las Rozas restaurant, where Quiles shared a video. Other PP leaders like Miguel Tellado and Esther Muñoz have condemned “all types of violence” and pointed to videos showing the journalist as the assaulted party.
