The electoral agreement reached between the Popular Party and Vox for the general elections on November 29 already has specific names.
The Vox candidates to run as independents for the Senate are Alba Moreno, Yeray Antonio Suárez Salem, Enrique García-Máiquez, José Luis Aguirre Larrauri, Miguel Rovira, and Belén Bordils Girona in the constituencies of Las Palmas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Cádiz, Valencia, Castellón, and Balearic Islands, where Vox will renounce presenting its own candidacies, according to what DEMÓCRATA has learned.
The formula allows Vox to incorporate its candidates into the ballots of the Popular Party without directly competing with the popular candidates in these six constituencies. The pact is part of a broader coordination strategy between both formations for the elections to the Upper House, which includes different modalities for distributing candidacies in a total of 23 provinces.
The designation of the six candidates allows us to know how the agreement will translate into specific names. Among them are leaders who have already run for the Senate under the Vox banner, former members of the Valencian coalition government between PP and Vox, and professionals linked to political communication.
Alba Moreno, candidate for Las Palmas
Alba Moreno is the person proposed by Vox to integrate as an independent to the Senate for Las Palmas, according to the information accessed by Demócrata.
Yeray Antonio Suárez Salem, candidate for Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Yeray Antonio Suárez Salem has electoral and institutional experience within Vox. He was a candidate for the Senate for Gran Canaria in the general elections of July 2023 and is the spokesperson for the formation in the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, where he has intervened in matters related to island management and the oversight of the institution's government.
He also appears in the provincial structure of Vox in Las Palmas, with responsibilities for intermunicipal coordination.
Enrique García-Máiquez, candidate for Cádiz
The writer, professor, and columnist Enrique García-Máiquez will run for the Senate again. In the general elections of 2023, he headed the Vox list for Cádiz, also as an independent, without securing a seat.
Born in Murcia in 1969 and linked to El Puerto de Santa María, he studied Law at the University of Navarra and works as a secondary school teacher in Puerto Real. His literary career includes poetry, essays, diaries, and cultural criticism, as well as regular collaborations in various media outlets.
García-Máiquez will occupy the third position on the popular candidacy for the Senate for Cádiz, replacing Pedro Gallardo. His incorporation constitutes one of the clearest examples of the functioning of the agreement, moving from heading a ballot for Vox in 2023 to integrating into that of the PP in 2026.
José Luis Aguirre Larrauri, candidate for Valencia
José Luis Aguirre Larrauri is one of the profiles with the most government experience among those elected. He was the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries of the Generalitat Valenciana from July 2023 to July 2024, during the coalition stage between PP and Vox presided over by Carlos Mazón.
A technical agricultural engineer by profession, he was also a regional deputy for Vox in Les Corts Valencianes and developed his professional career in the agricultural sector before joining the Valencian Executive.
After the breakdown of the coalition regional governments in 2024, Aguirre continued linked to the party. In October 2025, he was appointed provincial vice president of Vox in Valencia, within the team led by former Valencian vice president Vicente Barrera.
Miguel Rovira, candidate for Castellón
Miguel Rovira comes from the field of political communication and the parliamentary environment of Vox. A graduate in Journalism, he was the chief of staff for the party's spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies from 2023 to 2025 and has worked in the Analysis Department of the Disenso Foundation, linked to the formation of Santiago Abascal.
His career includes collaborations in media outlets and responsibilities for parliamentary advising. The Official Bulletin of Congress published in February 2026 his dismissal as a technical assistant of the Vox parliamentary group.
Belén Bordils Girona, candidate for Balearic Islands
Belén Bordils Girona is a journalist and has held institutional communication responsibilities in administrations governed by PP and Vox.
During the coalition stage in the Generalitat Valenciana, he worked as the press officer of the Conselleria de Justice and Interior, led by Elisa Núñez, from Vox. In June 2024, he left that position and joined the advisory team of the municipal group of Vox in the City Council of València.
His designation as an independent candidate for the Balearic Islands introduces another profile linked to communication and the institutional activity of the party into the agreed candidacy.
How the agreement between PP and Vox will work in these provinces
The presence of the six candidates responds to one of the three modalities provided for in the electoral pact for the Senate. In Las Palmas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Cádiz, Valencia, Castellón, and the Balearic Islands, Vox will not present its own candidacy and its candidates will run as independents within the lists of the PP.
This means that voters who want to vote for the candidates proposed by Vox will have to identify them on the ballot of the Popular Party, instead of finding a separate candidacy from Abascal's party.
The electoral system of the Senate allows voters to individually select their candidates by marking on the ballot, without the obligation to support all candidates from the same party. Therefore, the electoral coordination seeks to concentrate support on specific names and avoid both parties competing for the same votes.
The agreement between Feijóo and Abascal responds to the prior decision of the PSOE and Frente Amplio to coordinate candidacies for the Upper House. The Popular Party and Vox aim to improve their chances of representation in the Senate through a strategy that combines the integration of independents, the withdrawal of candidacies, and other formulas for provincial coordination.
The identity of the six candidates also reveals that Vox has turned to both leaders with government experience and candidates from previous elections and professionals linked to its structure. The novelty is not only the withdrawal of Vox from six ballots, but that some of its representatives will start asking for votes within a candidacy of the Popular Party.