Overview

• The Popular Party approved the change during its statutes committee session in Murcia on June 18, 2025.
• The term 'tesorero' has been replaced with 'director general de finanzas y organización nacional' across party statutes.
• Luis Bárcenas, who acted as the party's treasurer for nearly 30 years, was sentenced to 29 years and one month for money laundering, tax offenses, and misappropriation.
• Spain’s National Court condemned the Popular Party as a beneficiary of an institutional corruption system under the 2018 Gürtel ruling, which led to Mariano Rajoy's removal via a no-confidence vote.
• Francisco Correa, head of the Gürtel network, received a 51-year prison term, and 29 of the 37 accused in the case were collectively sentenced to 351 years behind bars.