Vox will face the 28-M with a great renewal in the lists: 75% in capitals and all the Autonomous Communities except Madrid and the Balearic Islands

He reserves his deputies for the municipal ones and prevents them from going to the autonomous ones so as not to break the group of Congress

MADRID, 22 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Vox's electoral lists for the elections next May will have a major renewal compared to the 2019 elections. All its regional 'number one' will be new, except those of the Community of Madrid and the Balearic Islands, and there will also be new faces in 75 percent of the candidates for the provincial capitals that he has announced.

The party's search for "professional" profiles who, in addition to garnering the support of their sympathizers, can enter eventual coalition governments, has led to the landing of new candidates on the lists for the month of May.

Specifically, only Rocío Monasterio and Jorge Campos will repeat as regional Vox candidates in the Community of Madrid and the Balearic Islands. The rest of 'number one' to the autonomous Parliaments will be new. In some cases, it has been decided to reward people who already held organic or institutional positions in the province, while in others, 'signings' from outside the party until now have been chosen.

This has been the case of the candidate for the Valencian Community, Carlos Flores, a professor and regular collaborator in the media who, however, has made his debut with controversy for having been sentenced 20 years ago for psychological violence against his ex-wife.

Vox's aspiration is to repeat the Castilla y León formula with Juan García Gallardo as candidate and current vice president of the Board. The most similar case is that of La Rioja, where the 'number one' will be Ángel Alda, a young 31-year-old lawyer.

In Aragon, the chosen one has been its leader in the province of Teruel, Alejandro Nolasco (who will also double as a candidate for mayor of his city); while in Castilla-La Mancha, David Moreno, current spokesman for the party in Talavera de la Reina, has been chosen to try to gain access to the regional Parliament.

Also in the Canary Islands, the candidate will be its provincial president in Las Palmas, Nicasio Galván; and in Murcia the regional list will be headed by one of the best-known faces of Vox in the region, José Ángel Antelo, provincial president and spokesman in the City Council.

The new faces are put in Asturias by Carolina López (councilor in Tineo) and Leticia Díaz in Cantabria, who already held positions in the Government with the Popular Party. Meanwhile, in the autonomous cities, the candidates are the current leaders of the party: José Miguel Tasende in Melilla and Juan Sergio Redondo, who repeats in Ceuta.

That of Extremadura is the only regional candidacy that Vox has not yet revealed, although the renewal is certain because its last headliner, Juan Antonio Morales, left the formation in April 2021 between accusations with his former party.

In the case of the municipal elections, the novelties reach up to 75 percent of the candidacies, since only a dozen of the candidates so far revealed repeat. The most symbolic is Javier Ortega Smith in the Madrid City Council, the first of the candidates to be announced at the same time that his removal as general secretary was revealed.

The rest of the 'repeaters' are mostly people who have been awarded by the party after obtaining the certificate in 2019 and taking the entire legislature as municipal spokespersons. This is the case of Seville, Zaragoza, Teruel or Huelva, for example.

There are also several municipal candidacies led by deputies in Congress, whom Vox has avoided placing on regional lists to avoid incompatibilities that would make them give up their national seat. Only the deputy Patricia de las Heras chooses to enter the Balearic Parliament for the constituency of Ibiza.

In the Town Halls, the lists will be led by deputies in the case of Toledo, with Inés Cañizares; Ricardo Chamorro in Ciudad Real; Luis Gestoso in Murcia; Alberto Rodríguez in Las Palmas; or Emilio del Valle in Santander. Deputy Manuel Mestre will also head the list in the Alicante town of Orihuela.

In the configuration of the lists - which the National Executive Committee approves at the proposal of the provincial committees - the new body of Government Political Direction, with Ignacio de las Hoces at the helm, has had a lot of weight.

This is a team created in March of last year, shortly after Vox entered the Government of Castilla y León, with the aim of coordinating the party's action in the governments of which it is a part and acting as a link with the national leadership headed by Santiago Abascal.

Although it was created after the elections in Castilla y León, Vox did so with an eye already set on its possible entry into more regional and municipal governments after the elections next May.

This body also acts as an adviser in the configuration of the electoral lists, since it has been in charge during the last weeks of putting on the table names that may later be suitable to occupy positions of responsibility in the executives.