From the Vox headquarters, they had been warning him for days: “There will be no surprises; no star signings; no extravagant.” And so it has been. The far-right party has made public its first candidacies for the next general elections, from whose lists a clear commitment to the continuity of the hard core of the president, Santiago Abascal, can be seen.
The leader of the ultra party will once again head the list for Madrid, but this time his number two will not be Javier Ortega-Smith, who now ranks fourth. He will be his right hand in the Congress of Deputies María de la Cabeza Ruíz Solás, who was already on the Vox bench in the last legislature. Third place is reserved for his faithful squire Iván Espinosa de los Monteros.
Vox has made public the top positions of the lists in most of the provinces, but has not presented the complete list yet. In 17 of those 24 lists presented, the candidate who already led them in the November 2019 elections is repeated. Coco Robatto replaces Macarena Olona as head of the list for Granada.
In what is known so far, Rocío Monasterio does not appear, who numerous surveys placed her in a starting position in Congress after the party in the Community of Madrid has a forecast of being irrelevant due to the absolute majority reached by Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
Vox confirms that whoever was a candidate for the Presidency of the Valencian Community, the man convicted of abuse Carlos Flores, will lead the candidacy for the Valencia constituency. The move from him to his side was the red line that the Popular Party marked to achieve an investiture agreement between the right and the extreme right. Flores thus replaces Ignacio Gil Lázaro who will go second, followed by Julio Utrilla.
The party led by Abascal has decided to keep the deputy secretary of Communication of Vox and deputy Manuel Mariscal for the Toledo constituency in the top positions; and the general secretary of the parliamentary group, José María Figueredo, for Asturias.
They also repeat the deputies Lourdes Mendez for Murcia, Pedro Fernandez for Zaragoza, Emilio del Valle for Cantabria, Georgina Trias for Avila, Victor Gonzalez Coello of Portugal for Salamanca and Miguel Angel Lopez Maraver for Guadalajara.
