[2][3] Feijóo was born at number 6 Avenida de Mesón in the village of Os Peares near A Peroxa in the Province of Ourense, on 10 September 1961.

[4] After graduating in law from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1984, Núñez Feijóo wanted to become a judge, but his father's unemployment meant that he had to find a job in the civil service to support the family.

[4] From 2000 to 2003, Feijóo was President of the State Society of Mail and Telegraphs, before returning to regional government as the Minister of Territorial Policy, Public Works and Housing of Galicia.

After his role in the national health service, the President of the Community of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, wanted him to lead the same ministry in her region.

[10] In March 2013, members of the opposition called for his resignation after photographs from the mid-1990s were published of him with Marcial Dorado, who was later convicted as a drug dealer.

[12] He was tipped to run to succeed Mariano Rajoy as national PP leader in 2018 but turned it down, crying while declaring that being President of Galicia was his highest ambition.

Feijóo put himself forward as a candidate, and was endorsed by regional PP leaders such as Ayuso, Jorge Azcón (Aragon), Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (Castile and León) and Juan Manuel Moreno (Andalusia).

He attacked prime minister Pedro Sánchez of the PSOE for relying on parliamentary support from EH Bildu, a Basque nationalist party fielding 44 convicted ETA members as candidates, as well as for his government passing legislation on sexual consent that led to offenders having their sentences lowered or quashed.

[27] On 23 August,[28] Congress of Deputies' socialist speaker, Francina Armengol,[29] announced that Feijóo's investiture debate would take place on 27 and 29 September.

[31] Following the conservative's failure, Sánchez was voted in as PM as Feijóo and his party summoned Spaniards to the streets in protest to the socialist's proposed amnesty law for Catalan independentists.

[2][3] His allies have praised him for his stances,[37] while opposing parties disputed these labels due to his approval of a PP-led government with Vox in Castile and León.

This policy put him against a proposal by national PP leader Pablo Casado, in which no public job would require knowledge of a regional language.

[46] A 2009 profile of Feijóo by El País observed that his personal life and spending habits were more austere than those of the previous regional president, Touriño.