Madrid (EFE).- The Official State Gazette (BOE) has published this Thursday the candidacies presented by the parties to contest the elections to the Congress of Deputies and the Senate called for next July 23.
After the publication of the lists, the Central Electoral Board (JEC) must examine whether they meet all the formal requirements and the endorsements presented by the formations that do not have parliamentary representation.
Once the possible irregularities detected have been corrected, the BOE will publish the definitive candidacies on June 27.
The main novelty is the lists of Sumar, the party of the second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, and of Caminado Juntos, created by the former deputy of Vox Macarena Olona, whose formations are running for the first time in elections.
Sumar has squared his candidacies with fifteen parties and with people from civil society, such as number two for Madrid, Agustín Santos, until now Spain’s ambassador to the UN, or the Saharawi activist Teslem Andala Ubbi, in position three.
Podemos upset over the veto of Irene Montero
The main stumbling block that Díaz has had has been the discomfort of Podemos for the veto on the lists of the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, and for considering that the assigned positions complicated his presence in Congress.
In any case, the general secretary of the purples, Ione Belarra, is in fifth place in the Madrid constituency; the Secretary of Organization, Lilith Verstrynge in the fourth for Barcelona, and apart from that they lead the candidacies of thirteen provinces.
Caminando Juntos, for its part, will attend Congress in a dozen constituencies after having gathered more than 20,000 endorsements. He does not appear in the Senate.
Olona leads the candidacy for Granada, while the number one for Madrid is Juan Carlos Bermejo, current member of the General Council of Citizens, who has taken this step after the oranges decided not to run for the general elections in July.
14 of the 17 ministers on the socialist lists
The PSOE includes in its lists 14 of the 17 socialist ministers of the Government, among them the also third vice president, Teresa Ribera, number two of Pedro Sánchez in the candidacy for Congress for Madrid, and also guarantees a seat to some of those defeated in the regional and municipal elections on May 28, such as the still regional presidents Francina Armengol (Balearic Islands) and Concha Andreu (La Rioja).
In addition, Sánchez recovers in the candidacies for Congress his chief of staff in Moncloa, Óscar López, and the former socialist spokesman in Congress and current deputy director of the Presidency Cabinet, Antonio Hernando, and once again has old-guard socialists , such as the former Vice President of the Government Carmen Calvo and the former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE José Luis Ábalos.
Feijóo includes his closest nucleus
In the PP, its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has already warned that he would make his lists and has printed his personal stamp on them by including his closest nucleus, who accompanied him from Galicia, in the candidacy for Congress for Madrid.
Several of its leaders head the lists for their constituencies, as is the case with its number two, Cuca Gamarra, in La Rioja, the general coordinator, Elías Bendodo, in Málaga or the vice-secretary of Organization and Feijóo’s right hand, Miguel Tellado, in A Coruña .
As number two for Madrid, Feijóo takes Marta Rivera de la Cruz, to attract the vote of those who supported Ciudadanos, while numbers three and four, Borja Sémper and Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, symbolize the integration of the more moderate wings and hard of a party that has also incorporated candidates with experience.
Vox has mainly opted for continuity, except in Granada, where Jacobo González-Robatto replaces Olona, while Senator Pepa Millán goes on to occupy the number five position in Congress.
The president of the party, Santiago Abascal, heads the list for Madrid, in which the deputy María de la Cabeza Ruiz rises to number two, replacing the vice president of the party and candidate for Mayor of Madrid, Javier Ortega Smith, who goes to the fourth place.
As number three for Madrid, the Vox spokesman in Congress, Iván Espinosa, repeats, while the deputy Juan José Aizcorbe heads the list for Barcelona and the numbers one for Valencia and the Balearic Islands are confirmed for Carlos Frutos and Jorge Campos, respectively, as a consequence of the post-electoral pacts with the PP in their communities.