PP MP and national deputy secretary Noelia Núñez has announced her resignation from all her organizational and institutional positions after falsifying her resume. In her resignation letter, Núñez, 33, admits to having given"incorrect information" about her studies in Congress."Responsibility is the essence of freedom, and I assume mine. No, we are not like them," Núñez wrote in a message on social media. The MP met with PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo on Wednesday, but the decision to step back was hers, according to PP sources, because she"could not bear" the campaign against her on social media. She will also resign her seat and her positions as PP president and spokesperson councilor in the Fuenlabrada City Council, according to PP sources.

"I apologize to all those who feel disappointed, but I also believe that apologizing is not enough," the PP leader said in a statement released this afternoon."I feel at ease if I contribute to restoring trust in politics, personally taking the most difficult of all possible decisions," she added.

The decision by the senior official of Alberto Núñez Feijóo's PP comes after two days of controversy following the revelation that she had falsely claimed to have degrees she did not possess. On the Transparency Portal of the Congress of Deputies, she appeared to have a"double degree in Law and Legal Sciences of Public Administration," when in fact she had not completed those studies. She had also claimed on her profile at the private Guatemalan University Francisco Marroquín, where she taught Political Science, a degree in English Philology from the UNED (National University of Guatemala), which she had also not completed.

She herself eventually acknowledged late Tuesday that the information about her studies was untrue, although she attributed it to a mistake."I admit the error that appears in the personal profile published in the Congress of Deputies about my studies," she wrote in a chain of 11 messages on X, formerly Twitter, at 11:00 p.m. Tuesday."I emphasize that it was a mistake and that there was no intention of deception on my part."

But on Wednesday, the pressure mounted, and social media was filled with comments against her. In addition to the harsh criticism from her political adversaries, whom she had also lashed out at without mercy, social media amplified the controversy. The MP met with Feijóo in Génova and made the decision to resign. According to various PP sources, the PP leader did not ask her to resign, but she did want to. According to what she told some party colleagues, she"couldn't take it anymore" with the campaign against her."She has endured many unfortunate comments, most of them deeply sexist," complained PP sources.

Feijóo thanked him for the gesture and fired back at the PSOE."It's a decision that honors you. For frankly more serious, even criminal, conduct, the PSOE would have told you to put up with it," the PP leader complained in a message on his social media profile."The PSOE's exemplary teachings don't concern me because it can't give them. Many of those who have mercilessly attacked Noelia Núñez live unabashedly with total immorality and lies made personified," he charged.

Núñez was a promising leader in the PP, despite her youth, and Feijóo had just reappointed her to his leadership committee at the congress in early July. Her arrival at the core of the PP was promoted by Isabel Díaz Ayuso's party, but the decision to renew her, just a few weeks ago, was made by Feijóo. She served as National Deputy Secretary for Mobilization and the Digital Challenge and had the highest follower and social media impact among the PP leadership. Feijóo took into account her impact on social media and among young voters, and the party began to increasingly promote her on television and in Congress.

Until today. The MP is ending her political career, which had been targeted by Transport Minister Óscar Puente, who was the first to warn about the changing versions of her CV."This is neither a minor error nor an exaggeration. It is a conscious and repeated falsehood, which violates the very statutes of the Popular Party, where falsifying one's CV is considered grounds for sanction or expulsion," the Socialists insisted.

The PP statutes require, as a requirement for access to any public office, a declaration of responsibility in which the candidate demonstrates respectability and the appropriate training and experience in the field for which he or she has been elected.

Núñez is the first leader of Feijóo's PP to be forced to resign for falsifying her resume."I believe it is the best thing for politics, for the PP, and for my own family," she concludes in her farewell letter."I apologize to them for years of absence and I regret the pain they have suffered in recent hours."

No, we're not like them. pic.twitter.com/Ysw0cMMqIh

— Noelia Núñez (@noelia_n) July 23, 2025