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 publish The dayThe 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.
The far-right formation obtained a seat in the western province of the Canary Islands in the last 2019 elections after receiving 53,491 votes, for which reason it would lose this seat in the Lower House by not presenting the electoral list.
The Vox deputy in the Parliament of the Canary Islands and president of the formation in the province of Las Palmas, Nicasio Galván, has assured that he hopes to be able to “rectify” what happened and assesses legal actions if necessary. “I don’t know what has happened, but those in this province cannot be deprived of being able to vote for Vox in Congress. Because the Senate did go well, all the lists, but not Congress. So, I’m telling you, we are gathering information and seeing if we can take some kind of action, ”he explained to the media at the opening ceremony of the Parliament of the Canary Islands.
“As long as we know something, come on, we will pass it on. I believe that there is always a margin, depending on what has happened, it can be corrected or not. I believe that there can always be a margin, especially in judicial matters, ”he concluded.
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 (at that time not final) to Congress and the Senate for these generals, which is 11.2% less than in the November 2019 elections, when 1,310 showed up. Specifically, for the new appointment with the polls, there were 585 registered candidates for Congress and another 578 for the Senate.
This Tuesday 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.