Madrid (EFE).- The BOE has published the definitive candidacies for the general elections on July 23, totaling more than 1,200 and representing parties ranging from the best-known formations such as PSOE, PP and Vox to new coalitions such as Sumar or new parties like Caminando Juntos, by Macarena Olona.
The electoral calendar advances and after last June 21 the Official State Gazette (BOE) published the candidacies presented by the parties to run for Congress and the Senate, this Tuesday those proclaimed by the Zone Electoral Boards appear, opening tomorrow the deadline for possible challenges.
You can file an appeal until June 29.
It is not usual for political formations to file an appeal against the proclamation of candidacies, although they could do so before the Contentious-Administrative Courts until next Thursday, June 29.
In addition, tomorrow begins the term for the Electoral Census Office to send the official ballots for 23J in the provinces where the proclamation of the candidates has not been challenged.
In the general elections of November 10, 2019, a total of 1,279 candidacies were proclaimed, 628 for Congress and 651 for the Senate, while in the 2016 elections the proclaimed candidacies were 152 fewer, since they totaled 1,127.
And it is that since 2016 there has been a proliferation of political parties that led to parliamentary fragmentation five years ago.
Unlike what happened a few years ago, in these elections there are no longer only the more traditional parties such as PSOE and PP or the usual Basque nationalists, PNV, and independentistas EH Bildu, ERC or JxCAT.
On the right, Vox has broken in, which repeats in these elections after having carved out a gap in the Cortes in 2019; On the left, the same thing has happened with Unidas Podemos, which has finally formed a coalition with the formation led by Yolanda Díaz, Movimiento Sumar and which brings together the largest electoral coalition in history, with sixteen state and regional parties.
14 socialist ministers on the PSOE lists
In the PSOE lists, the inclusion of 14 of the 17 socialist ministers of the Government stands out, among them the third vice president, Teresa Ribera, who is number two for Sánchez in the candidacy for Congress for Madrid, while after the head of the list for the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, is the hitherto Madrid Minister of Culture and former Citizens Marta Rivera de la Cruz.
Sumar’s candidacy for Madrid is led by Yolanda Díaz followed by the until now Spanish ambassador to the UN, Agustín Santos Maraver, while the general secretary of Podemos and Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, is number five.
The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, appears as his number one in Congress for Madrid, a list where deputy María de la Cabeza Ruiz rises to number two, replacing the vice president of the party Javier Ortega Smith, who moves to fourth place.
For her part, the former Vox spokeswoman Macarena Olana reappears with the new Caminando Juntos party, with which she is running for Congress in Granada.
However, in addition to these formations on the 23J lists, there are also parties such as the Workers’ Front, Zero Cuts or For a More Just World, which join the traditional candidacy of the animalist party, PACMA, which once again will try to overcome the barrier of 3% of the votes to get representation in at least one constituency.