Overview

• Spain’s Social Security has proposed raising self‑employed contributions from 2026 to 2031, with 2026 quotas up between €11 and €206 and further annual increases under negotiation with sector groups.
• Feijóo attacked Sánchez in Congress over taxes and the planned hike, as the PP launches a political offensive centered on freelancers’ costs, including a public event this weekend.
• The PP frames the plan as a potential 35% rise that could add about €6 billion in payments, a claim it is using to rally middle‑income voters.
• Party leaders say they will seek to overturn up to ten Sánchez‑era measures they argue penalize the middle class, according to an internal plan reported by El Mundo.
• The shift back to economic messaging follows internal doubts about how to compete with Vox, with the PP touting IRPF deflation, targeted VAT cuts, free childcare, and housing and family incentives while opposing the government’s current implementation of the 2022 freelancers’ system.