A member of Feijóo's board resigns for falsifying her resume.

MadridA week ago, since the outbreak of the Montoro case, that Alberto Núñez Feijóo hasn't shaken off the scandal. A member of the current PP leadership resigned this Wednesday for falsifying her CV. This is Noelia Núñez, the youngest of the PP deputy secretaries. A 33-year-old from Madrid, she was in charge of the mobilization and digital challenge area. She was already part of the PP leadership before the party congress at the beginning of the month and the PP leader ratified her in the position in the renewal of the party's leadership carried out to face the next electoral cycle.

Her departure, therefore, has been an unexpected shock and has come after pressure from the PSOE, specifically from the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, who had been denouncing for days in X that the academic qualifications listed in Núñez's profiles had contradictions. In a statement on the same social network after a day in which the MP was cornered by the evidence, the former PP leader apologized and announced that "after having presented incorrect information in Congress," she has decided to "take full responsibility for her own actions." "I will resign from all my organizational and institutional positions," she specified.

Puente's complaint

In a message to X published this Monday, the Minister of Transport pointed out that Núñez had listed on her CV, published on the Congressional website, a "double degree in law and legal sciences of public administration." However, on the Fuenlabrada City Council website, where she also held the position of councilor and spokesperson for the PP, she had stated that she "decided to study law at the UCM" and "started the degree in English philology at the UNED," which she said she was still pursuing. Shortly after, she added that she "went a bit crazy" and decided "to change the law degree for a double degree in law and legal sciences of public administration." In a third profile on a private institution in Madrid, the Francisco Marroquín University, she presented herself as a "law graduate" from the Complutense University of Madrid. "She also obtained a degree in English philology and is currently pursuing a double degree in law and legal sciences of public administration," the description added.

"Due to age, it's impossible," Puente pointed out. Núñez began her political and institutional career very early. At 23, she assumed the position of councilor and before becoming a member of Congress, she was a member of the Madrid Assembly in Isabel Díaz Ayuso's parliamentary group. "I have never intended to deceive anyone," the former Popular Party leader defended Tuesday night in response to "the confusion generated about her academic training." In a thread on X, Núñez acknowledged that she had not completed any of the studies listed in the different versions of her CV because her political dedication "has occupied all her time and effort."

The PSOE has come out in force to demand Núñez's resignation and, in a document registered this Wednesday afternoon in the lower house, the socialists demanded the intervention of the Congress Bureau for this "evident and blatant violation" of the code of conduct for parliamentarians. "The representative should be urged to fulfill her duty to conform her conduct to the principle of honesty that must govern the functioning of all members of the chamber," the petition stated. Shortly after, Núñez announced his resignation.

Feijóo: "The PSOE cannot lecture"

After Núñez's message, Feijóo made another, retorting to the Socialists that "they cannot give lessons in exemplary conduct." "Many of those who mercilessly attacked Noelia Núñez live without shame with total immorality and lies made personified," stated the PP president, who praised the decision to resign. "For frankly more serious, and even criminal, conduct, the PSOE would have told her to put up with it," Feijóo asserted.

The secretary general of the Popular Party, Miguel Tellado, expressed a similar sentiment at an event in Cornellà de Llobregat, once again putting the spotlight on the PSOE. Thus, beyond sending a "hug" to Núñez for having "given a lesson in dignity to Spanish politics, and especially the PSOE," he said that "we are not all equal." He then took a dignified position: "Now, in this position, we are in a position to demand that Óscar Puente resign in order to falsify a master's degree," he retorted, and demanded the same for allegedly having done the same thing with university degrees for the Socialist spokesperson in Congress, Patxi López, and the Spanish government's delegate in Spain.