The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, will travel this Monday to Talavera de la Reina (Toledo) to introduce the heads of the lists of the formation for the elections on November 29.
Vox made public on Wednesday the names that head the candidacies for these elections, after the National Executive Committee (CEN), chaired by Abascal, approved them on Monday. The lists include around twenty new faces and maintain most of the current members of Congress in starting positions.
In this renewal, several leaders critical of the Vox leadership disappear. The former leader Javier Ortega Smith, who ran for Congress in 2023 as "number four," is out of the Madrid list; his companion in the "procés" trial Pedro Fernández, who headed the Zaragoza list in 2023; Lourdes Méndez Monasterio, who led the list for Murcia in 2023 but has left politics; the head of the list for the Balearic Islands, Jorge Campos, who announced on Wednesday that he is returning to regional politics; and Malena Nevado, who led the candidacy for Cáceres and left Vox in May 2025 amid strong criticism of the Vox Executive.
Fernández, Méndez Monasterio, Campos, and Nevado are replaced by Carmen Rouco, Joaquín Robles (currently a deputy), María Isabel Cerezo; and Marcela Reijia.
From the first position of the list for Valencia, the deputy convicted of mistreatment of his ex-wife Carlos Flores Juberías also disappears, who drops to number three, and is replaced by Ignacio Gil Lázaro, "number two" of that list in 2023 and currently a deputy in Congress.
Vox rewards the current spokesperson for Housing, Carlos Hernández Quero, an emerging figure in the party, with the "number one" of the list for Málaga, and among the rest of the deputies, María Reyes Romero (Sevilla); Alberto Rodríguez Almeida (Las Palmas); José María Figaredo (Asturias); Jacobo Robatto (Granada); Rocío de Meer (Almería); José Ramírez del Río (Córdoba); Manuel Mariscal (Toledo); and Ignacio de Hoces (Badajoz) repeat.
In addition, Emilio del Valle (Cantabria); Pablo Sáez (Valladolid); Ángel López Maraver (Granada); Juanjo Aizcorbe (Barcelona); Blanca Armario (Cádiz); Alberto Asarta (Castellón); Ricardo Chamorro (Ciudad Real); Tomás Fernández de los Ríos (Huelva); Francisco Alcaraz Martos (Jaén); Pablo Calvo Liste (León); and David García (Alicante) are also listed.
Recognition to DENAES and the union Solidaridad
Likewise, Iván Vélez, president of the Foundation for the Defense of the Spanish Nation (DENAES), considered the germ of Vox, repeats as head of the list but for Cuenca instead of for Albacete, where he is replaced by Rubén Herrero de Castro. Vox has also recognized the spokesperson for Security and Immigration, Samuel Vázquez, with the "one" in Ávila and Jordi de la Fuente, general secretary of Solidarity, the Vox union, and with a neonazi past, with the first position for Tarragona.
Vox renews the heads of the list for Salamanca --Víctor González Coello de Portugal was expelled in 2024--, whose number one is Laura Magdalena Miguel; Vizcaya (Marco Antonio Moreno); Navarra (María del Perpetuo Socorro Sada Ballesteros); Álava (Jonathan Romero); Lérida (Rafael Villafranca); Lugo (Jesús Primitivo Rodríguez González); and Orense (María Jesús Morenza).
There are also new faces in La Rioja (Ángel Alda); Huesca (Esther Blanco); Teruel (Daniel Alda); Zamora (Miguel Suárez Arca); Soria (Andrea Martínez); Guipúzcoa (Juan de Dios Dávila); A Coruña (Juan Garcilaso de la Vega); Segovia (Gonzalo Babé); Zamora (Miguel Suárez); Ceuta (Ana Belén Cifuentes) and Melilla (José Miguel Tasende).
Finally, Eugenia Landaluce leads the list for Burgos; Ignasi Mulleras for Girona; Matías Recio for Palencia; Álvaro Díaz-Mella for Pontevedra; and Alejandro Gómez for Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Configuration of the list for Madrid
Abascal is the "number one" of the list for Madrid, and he is accompanied by the current deputy secretary of the party, Montserrat Lluís, responsible for negotiating the regional governments of Extremadura, Aragón, Castilla y León, and Andalucía with the PP.
As "number three" on the Madrid list is the current spokesperson for Vox in the Assembly of Ceuta, Juan Sergio Redondo, followed by the current spokesperson in Congress, Pepa Rodríguez de Millán, who advances one position compared to the 2023 candidacy. In the fifth place of the list announced by Vox is the national spokesperson for Sports and councilor in the Madrid City Council, Cristian Toro.
In 2023, Abascal's companion on the Madrid list was María Ruiz, currently a member of the National Executive Committee (CEN). The former spokesperson for Congress Iván Espinosa de los Monteros also disappears from the Madrid list, having left his positions in August 2023, just after the elections, and is now definitively expelled from the party after his criticisms of Bambú.
Electoral event and Vox program
During the event in Talavera, Abascal is expected to refer to the basic lines of Vox's government program: national priority, deregulation, and tax cuts, and "remigration" of illegal immigrants and legal ones who commit crimes or live off public aid.
On Monday, the deadline for registering candidacies for the elections concludes, while it remains unclear what formula PP and Vox will finalize for the Senate, with the aim of countering the agreement of PSOE, Frente Amplio, and the territorial left to run together in the Upper House.
Vox does not rule out "any option" and has already indicated that it is not in a hurry to finalize a pact, although Abascal and the leadership have avoided giving details of the conversations. They limit themselves to assuring that they will act responsibly and to emphasizing the party's commitment to the alternative to PSOE and Pedro Sánchez.
Several possibilities are on the table: that Vox renounces running in about twenty provinces where it would not achieve representation and that PP compensates with the concession of regional senators, among other formulas.
Vox faces the general elections on November 29 with favorable prospects, as most polls indicate that it could double its presence in Congress and position itself around 70 seats, thus shaping up as a possible partner in a future coalition government with PP.