The far-right Vox has managed to get the PP to include an ex-councillor of Carlos Mazón, the Communication Director of the Disenso Foundation, and people who have worked in Santiago Abascal's party press teams on its Senate lists. All appear under the label of "independents", although their trajectories show political, professional, and organic ties with the party.
The agreement for the November 29 elections allows Vox to withdraw its own candidacies in six provinces and maintain candidates within the popular ballots. The six chosen incumbents are accompanied by twelve substitutes, among whom are also councillors, local officials, and former party candidates.
The formula opens a path for the far-right into a Chamber where they did not win any senator by direct election in the 2023 general elections. Their representatives during the legislature have arrived by designation of the regional parliaments. Now, the pact with Alberto Núñez Feijóo allows them to aspire to seats with the electoral support of the PP candidacies.
In other territories, Vox maintains its lists. Among the announced names are Marta Castro, head of the party's legal action; Sara Álvarez Rouco, who was involved in the controversy over the hiring of Asturian artists in Gijón; and Víctor Morejón, the Guadalajara councillor who recorded himself mocking the low-emission zone.
The "independents" come from the far-right Vox apparatus
José Luis Aguirre Larrauri holds the second position on the PP's list for Valencia, behind Susana Camarero. He was Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries in Mazón's coalition government until Vox's departure from regional executives in July 2024 and has held responsibilities in the party's provincial leadership.
His time in the Generalitat left statements that questioned the weight of human activity in global warming. In an interview with Europa Press in March 2024, he acknowledged that climate change exists, but maintained that "man is not as responsible as they want us to believe". Before, he had accused governments of being subjected to "climate delirium" during the debate on the Valencian Climate Change Agency.
Aguirre's substitutes are María Isabel Castellano Carrión, Vox candidate for Mayor of Utiel in 2023, and Vicente Moreno Ribelles, the party's councillor in Alaquàs.
The Disenso Foundation also gets representation on the PP ballots. Its Communication Director, Miguel Rovira de la Fuente, is listed in third place for Castellón. The biography published by the foundation itself details that he was head of cabinet for Vox's spokesperson in Congress between 2023 and 2025 and a member of its Analysis department. He is accompanied as substitutes by Castellón councilwoman Arantxa Miralles Benages and local coordinator Cristóbal Caballero Escribano.
For Cádiz, Enrique García-Máiquez is running, also in third position. The writer, professor, and poet already headed Vox's candidacy for the Senate for that province in 2023 and has been part of the Disenso board of trustees. His relationship with Abascal's project extends to his collaborations in media outlets associated with the party.
García-Máiquez has defended openly anti-abortion positions. In a column published in October 2025 in El Debate, he presented the majority social support for abortion as something that occurred "to our national shame" and criticized its constitutional protection. His substitutes are María del Carmen Salas Alcázar and Agustín Jiménez Inverno, Vox councilman in Chipiona.
In Gran Canaria, the second position for the PP goes to Alba Moreno Santa, Vox councilwoman in Alcalá de Henares and former Communication Director of the party's municipal group in Madrid. Her career was marked by the dismissal communicated to her by Javier Ortega Smith on the same day she returned from her maternity leave.
Moreno sued him for humiliating and degrading treatment. The Supreme Court rejected the lawsuit, considering that the facts did not reach criminal relevance, although it reproached Ortega Smith for "somewhat sexist" behavior. In the conversation provided by the worker, the leader had reproached her for not attending plenary sessions during her leave or showing sufficient interest in the group.
Moreno has as substitutes Yeray Antonio Suárez Salem, Vox spokesperson in the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, and María Cristina Aguado Cubero. Her incorporation allows the party to place both a figure from its Madrid structure and a representative of its Canarian organization on the island's candidacy.
In Tenerife appears José Francisco García Paramio, second candidate for the PP. The Telecommunications engineer already headed Vox's list for the Senate for León in 2023. Now he aspires to represent a Canary Island with the popular party's acronym. His substitutes are Isis María Luque Carrasco and David Fernández Santillán.
Journalist Belén Bordils Girona holds the second position for Mallorca. She has developed her career in media such as RTVV and Radio Nou and then in institutional and political communication for Vox. She has worked in the Valencian Generalitat, in the municipal group of Valencia, and in the parliamentary group of Andalusia, where she served as Communication Director. Her substitutes are Jordi Aguiló Vendrell, former Vox candidate for the Senate, and Nerea García Serrano, councilwoman in Marratxí.
The distribution shows that Abascal has negotiated positions for people from his political and communication structure, in addition to profiles linked to Disenso. The withdrawal of Vox's acronym does not eliminate its presence in the candidacies. In Gran Canaria, Tenerife, and Mallorca, one of the two main candidates on the PP ballot has been proposed by the far-right.
The popular party's document also differentiates the candidacy of Vicente Tur Costa for Formentera, identified as a coalition. The businessman has been presented by Sa Unió, the local alliance of PP and Compromís amb Formentera. This candidacy has a different formula from that used for the six main candidates identified as independents.
Vox's lawyer and the controversial councilors
Among the party's own candidacies, Marta Asunción Castro Fuertes stands out, number one for Almería. A lawyer and national legal coordinator for Vox, she directs their actions before the courts, electoral boards, and the Administration. The party presents her intervention as a popular prosecutor in procedures such as those of Begoña Gómez, José Luis Ábalos, or David Sánchez as a credential.
Her candidacy brings one of the people responsible for Abascal's judicial strategy into the electoral competition. The Almería list also includes Carlos Antonio García Sánchez and Amadea García Martínez.
For Guadalajara, Víctor Morejón heads the candidacy, a family doctor, provincial vice-president of Vox, municipal spokesperson, and provincial deputy. He is part of the local government of the popular Ana Guarinos and has accumulated responsibilities in Tourism, Commerce, Markets, and the Historic Center.
In April, he released a video in which he stated "I wipe my ass with the Low Emission Zone" and assured that, as long as Vox remained in the municipal government, there would be no low emission zone. Now he is running for the Senate accompanied by Ana Isabel Perucho Prieto and Juan Antonio Pérez Borda.
In Castilla-La Mancha, Vox's five top candidates for the Upper House are men. Along with Morejón, Román González for Albacete, Jesús Felipe Sánchez Crespo Ruiz del Moral for Ciudad Real, Fernando Sánchez Izquierdo Hurtado for Toledo and Luis Guillermo Ortega for Cuenca are running. The latter, with a degree in Physical Sciences and a teaching and business background, will be the only candidate from his party in the province.
Asturias will also have a single-name candidacy, where Vox has chosen regional deputy and Gijón councilwoman Sara Álvarez Rouco. In 2023, when she was head of Festivities, she responded to a question about hiring artists who performed in Asturian with a "if possible, no. But you never know…". Afterwards, she defended that her words had been misrepresented and assured that the program would accommodate Asturian traditions. The initial announcement provoked criticism even from Foro, her then government partner.
For Burgos, Vox presents Fernando Martínez-Acitores, municipal spokesman and former partner of popular mayor Cristina Ayala. During the negotiation of the 2025 budgets, he defended withdrawing aid to entities that assist migrants, which he linked to the "pull effect". The PP ended up rectifying the suppression of agreements with Accem, Burgos Acoge and Atalaya Intercultural, which opened a confrontation between both parties.
Castilla y León is left out of the agreed withdrawals and maintains separate candidacies. In addition to Martínez-Acitores, the lists are headed by Clara Isabel Rubio for Ávila, Jaime Alonso for León, Jorge Castrillejo for Palencia, Purificación Pozo for Salamanca, Patricia Bernabé for Segovia, María Sara López for Soria, Luis Matarranz for Valladolid and Eugenio Blanco for Zamora. Among them are councilors and provincial leaders of the party.
The combination of organic positions and municipal representatives is repeated in other territories. Luis Mayoral, Vox spokesman in Villamediana de Iregua, heads the list for La Rioja along with Paula Manso, coordinator in Quel, and Eduardo Garrido, coordinator in Tudelilla.
In Andalusia, Beatriz Sánchez Agustino, a civil engineer, regional deputy, and former municipal spokesperson in Granada, will be the only candidate for that province. For Huelva, Carlos Bermejo Martins, an agricultural engineer, livestock farmer, businessman, and secretary-manager of the provincial directorate, who has already participated in several candidacies since 2019, is running.
For Córdoba, the party has announced lawyer Miguel Gómez de la Rosa Aranda, also linked to a family olive grove farm; jewelry designer Luisa Plata Requena; and doctor Salvador Vacas Reyes.
In Galicia, Manuel Torres, an industrial engineer, will be the sole candidate for Pontevedra. The other three provinces maintain lists headed by Óscar Rodríguez Pino in A Coruña, Manuel Menéndez Mato in Lugo, and Enrique Quirós in Ourense. In Navarra, Vox has chosen Estíbaliz Moreno Irigoyen, born in Cintruénigo in 1999 and with work experience in different sectors, currently in hospitality, as its sole candidate.
The difference between these candidacies responds to the electoral agreement. Vox presents a single candidate in fourteen provinces, including Asturias, Navarra, Pontevedra, Cuenca, Granada, and Huelva. Their voters will be able to mark that name and complete their vote with two PP candidates. In Gipuzkoa, Girona, and Tarragona, the opposite of what happens in the six provinces where Vox withdraws occurs, because there it is the PP who declines to run.
The shared objective is to preserve the right-wing majority against Senate of Progress, the alliance of the PSOE, Frente Amplio, and other left-wing forces, and try to reach three-fifths of the Chamber. This majority has concrete institutional consequences, including the ability to approve the Senate's proposals for four magistrates of the Constitutional Court.
The result will depend on voter behavior. The Senate uses open lists and individual votes, so occupying the second or third position on a candidacy does not guarantee a seat. The pact requires popular voters to support the candidates proposed by Vox and that, where both parties maintain separate ballots, part of the electorate combines names from both formations.
