Leader of the Opposition (Spain)

The **Leader of the Opposition** () is an unofficial honorary title held by the leader of the largest party in the Congress of Deputies—the lower house of the Spanish parliament.

## List of opposition leaders

|rowspan="2" width="65"|Portrait|rowspan="2" width="210"|Name|colspan="3"|Tenure|rowspan="2" colspan="2" width="90"|Party|rowspan="2"|Opposition to government|rowspan="2" width="65"|Election|rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Prime Minister|||||||
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|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**Manuel Fraga**|class="nowrap"|1982|class="nowrap"|1986|rowspan="2" style="font-size:95%;"||rowspan="2" width="1" style="background:#FFA519;"||rowspan="2"|AP|González I|1982|rowspan="8" width="1" style="background:#EF1C27;"||scope="row" style="text-align:center;" rowspan="8"|**Felipe González**|
|class="nowrap"|1986|class="nowrap"|1986|rowspan="5"|González II|rowspan="5"|1986|||||||||||||
|colspan="7" style="background:#EEEEEE;"||||||||||||||||||||
||**Miguel Herrero de Miñón**|class="nowrap"|1986|class="nowrap"|1987|style="font-size:95%;"||style="background:#FFA519;"||AP||||||||||
||**Antonio Hernández Mancha**|class="nowrap"|1987|class="nowrap"|1989|style="font-size:95%;"||style="background:#FFA519;"||AP||||||||||
||**Manuel Fraga**|class="nowrap"|1989|class="nowrap"|1989|style="font-size:95%;"||style="background:#1D84CE;"||PP||||||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**José María Aznar**|class="nowrap"|1989|class="nowrap"|1993|rowspan="2" style="font-size:95%;"||rowspan="2" style="background:#1D84CE;"||rowspan="2"|PP|González III|1989|||||
|class="nowrap"|1993|class="nowrap"|1996|González IV|1993|||||||||||||||
||**Felipe González**|class="nowrap"|1996|class="nowrap"|1997|style="font-size:95%;"||style="background:#EF1C27;"||PSOE|rowspan="4"|Aznar I|rowspan="4"|1996|rowspan="6" style="background:#1D84CE;"||scope="row" style="text-align:center;" rowspan="6"|**José María Aznar**||
||**Joaquín Almunia**|class="nowrap"|1997|class="nowrap"|1998|style="font-size:95%;"||style="background:#EF1C27;"||PSOE||||||||||
||**Josep Borrell**|class="nowrap"|1998|class="nowrap"|1999|style="font-size:95%;"||style="background:#EF1C27;"||PSOE||||||||||
||**Joaquín Almunia**|class="nowrap"|1999|class="nowrap"|2000|style="font-size:95%;"||style="background:#EF1C27;"||PSOE||||||||||
|colspan="7" style="background:#EEEEEE;"||rowspan="2"|Aznar II|rowspan="2"|2000|||||||||||||||
||**José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero**|class="nowrap"|2000|class="nowrap"|2004|style="font-size:95%;"||style="background:#EF1C27;"||PSOE||||||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**Mariano Rajoy**|class="nowrap"|2004|class="nowrap"|2008|rowspan="2" style="font-size:95%;"||rowspan="2" style="background:#1D84CE;"||rowspan="2"|PP|Zapatero I|2004|rowspan="2" style="background:#EF1C27;"||scope="row" style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|**José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero**|
|class="nowrap"|2008|class="nowrap"|2011|Zapatero II|2008|||||||||||||||
||**Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba**|class="nowrap"|2011|class="nowrap"|2014|style="font-size:95%;"||style="background:#EF1C27;"||PSOE|rowspan="3"|Rajoy I|rowspan="2"|2011|rowspan="5" style="background:#1D84CE;"||scope="row" style="text-align:center;" rowspan="5"|**Mariano Rajoy**||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**Pedro Sánchez**|rowspan="2" class="nowrap"|2014|rowspan="2" class="nowrap"|2016|rowspan="2" style="font-size:95%;"||rowspan="2" style="background:#EF1C27;"||rowspan="2"|PSOE|||||||
|2015||||||||||||||||||||
|colspan="7" style="background:#EEEEEE;"||rowspan="2"|Rajoy II|rowspan="4"|2016|||||||||||||||
||**Pedro Sánchez**|class="nowrap"|2017|class="nowrap"|2018|style="font-size:95%;"||style="background:#EF1C27;"||PSOE||||||||||
||**Mariano Rajoy**|class="nowrap"|2018|class="nowrap"|2018|style="font-size:95%;"||style="background:#1D84CE;"||PP|rowspan="3"|Sánchez I|rowspan="5" style="background:#EF1C27;"||scope="row" style="text-align:center;" rowspan="5"|**Pedro Sánchez**||||
|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|**Pablo Casado**|rowspan="2" class="nowrap"|2018|rowspan="2" class="nowrap"|2020|rowspan="3" style="font-size:95%;"||rowspan="3" style="background:#1D84CE;"||rowspan="3"|PP|||||||
|2019||||||||||||||||||||
|class="nowrap"|2020|class="nowrap"|2022|rowspan="2"|Sánchez II|rowspan="2"|2019|||||||||||||
||**Alberto Núñez Feijóo**|class="nowrap"|2022|class="nowrap"|Incumbent|style="font-size:95%;"||style="background:#1D84CE;"||PP||||||||||

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Leader of the Opposition
- **insignia**:
- **insigniacaption**: Logo of the largest party in opposition
- **image**: Desayuno Europa Press con Alberto Nuñez Feijoo (25396127787) (cropped).jpg
- **incumbent**: Alberto Núñez Feijóo
- **incumbentsince**: 2 April 2022
- **residence**: No official residence
- **appointer**: None
- **termlength**: No fixed term
- **formation**: 28 December 1982
8 February 1983
- **inaugural**: Manuel Fraga