VOX has not presented an electoral list to the Congress of Deputies for the Santa Cruz de Tenerife constituency, as stated in the Official State Gazette (BOE) this Tuesday, which has published the proclaimed candidacies and that of the formation led by Santiago Abascal appears as “not proclaimed”, as has happened with For a More Just World.
On the other hand, for the Senate they do present a candidacy on the islands of Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro. According to El Día, the reason is due to the resignation of several candidates from the list last Sunday and the material impossibility of activating the changes before the Electoral Board that, finally, has left VOX out.
Originally, the provisional list was headed by Alejandro Gómez, who was also a candidate for mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, replacing Rubén Darío, one of the VOX national deputies who was relieved for 23J. Faced with the impossibility of VOX and For a More Just World running in the elections, a total of nine candidacies concur in the western province constituency: PP, Canary Coalition; Nueva Canarias-Canarista Block; Pacma; Zero Cuts; Now the Canary Islands-Communist Party of the Canarian People and Sumar.
Last week, the BOE collected that parties and coalitions had registered a total of 1,163 lists –then not final– to Congress and the Senate for these generals, which is 11.2% less than in the November elections. 2019, when 1,310 were presented. Specifically, for the new appointment with the polls, there were 585 registered candidates for Congress and another 578 for the Senate. Today the Official State Gazette has already published the proclaimed candidacies, after a brief period that was opened to review, correct errors and study possible appeals and challenges that may be presented on the lists.
One of the requirements that candidacies must meet is to respect the so-called parity democracy, which implies that no gender group can have more than 60% nor less than 40% of the positions in each section of five names. In the specific case of extra-parliamentary parties, they must also attach the guarantees that are required (the signatures of at least 0.1% of the census). Such is the case of Caminando Juntos, the new party created by the former leader of Vox Macarena Olona.
In addition to the four large parliamentary formations at the state level (PSOE, PP, Vox and Sumar), there are other parties that managed to present lists in all or almost all constituencies: Animalist Party (PACMA), the Workers’ Front, the Recuts Cero coalition (Unification Communist of Spain, Demos and Viva!), For a More Just World (PUM J) and the Communist Party of Workers of Spain (PCTE and its autonomous denominations).
Behind it appears a group of extra-parliamentary parties that present themselves in several provinces as White Seats (15 lists for Congress); Caminando Juntos, the party created by the former deputy of Vox Macarena Olona, ??who aspired to run in twelve provinces, and the Spanish Falange and the JONS, with eight lists.
By constituency, the most competitive will be Barcelona, ??where 17 candidates for Congress and another thirteen for the Senate were registered, followed by Tarragona (16 for the Lower House and 13 for the Upper House). With 14 lists to Congress appeared Murcia, Palencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza.
On the contrary, the provinces with the fewest lists for Congress are Albacete, Ciudad Real and Huelva, as well as Ceuta and Melilla, with eight each. Nine candidacies were presented in Badajoz, Cantabria, Castellón and Jaén, and with ten appeared Guadalajara, Córdoba, Cuenca, Cáceres, Mallorca, Lugo, Málaga, Pontevedra, Soria and Toledo.
In the November 2019 elections, 1,310 lists were presented to the Cortes Generales, but 1,276 candidacies were finally proclaimed and the rest were rejected for not complying with any of the requirements established by the Electoral Law or not accrediting the sufficient guarantees required of the extra-parliamentarians.
In total, 4,456 people (2,306 men and 2,150 women) competed to occupy a position in the Congress of Deputies, which meant an average of 13 applicants for each of the 350 seats that make up the Lower House.
In the Upper House there were 1,276 candidates (737 men and 539 women) who tried to occupy one of the 208 seats in the Senate that were elected (the rest are designated by the autonomous communities), which represented an average of six applicants for each position.
