Abascal keeps Ortega Smith on the Vox lists, bets on Senator Pepa Millán and leaves Sánchez del Real out

The dripping of names for 23-J begins. Vox has made public this Friday the first details of the lists with which it will attend Congress in less than 40 days. Santiago Abascal maintains Javier Ortega-Smith, although he goes from number two for Madrid to fourth place for this province.

Vox has designed some continuist lists, with a good part of the main leaders of the party in the first starting positions, although with some unexpected departure, such as that of the deputy for Badajoz Víctor Sánchez del Real. As EL MUNDO reported last Sunday, the party ruled out making “media” signings after the break with Macarena Olona and would search among its regional ranks to prepare the candidacies.

Ortega Smith, who was the candidate for mayor of the capital, was organically relegated last October after being pointed out by Macarena Olona as the cause of the political storm that led to the rupture of the State lawyer and the party. Abascal then promoted Ignacio Garriga as general secretary of the party and put Ortega-Smith at the controls of one of the three vice-presidencies of the formation.

That gesture was understood in the ranks of the formation as proof of the loss of confidence between Abascal and Ortega Smith, who has continued to play an important role at the local level in Madrid. Now he will continue to be a deputy for Madrid despite falling two places on the lists.

The second position for Madrid, the most symbolic as it is just the next after Abascal, falls to the party's organization secretary, María de la Cabeza Ruiz Solas, who has already been a deputy this legislature, and the third will be occupied by the current parliamentary spokesperson , Ivan Espinosa de los Monteros.

The main novelty of the list, in any case, comes with number five: Vox bets on Pepa Millán, one of the prominent faces of the party in the Senate, to make the leap to Congress. The formation has opted for it in recent months and has gained weight in the parliamentary structure of Vox.

Carla Toscano, the deputy who confronted on several occasions with Irene Montero and her equality policies, or Dr. Juan Luis Steegman, who was also a deputy in the previous legislature, also attended Madrid.. Also on the list are Jorge Martín Frías, president of the party's foundation, and Monserrat Lluís, director of Coordination and Social Interaction of the vice president of Castilla y León, Juan García-Gallardo.

Who will not be part of the candidacies is Víctor Sánchez del Real, to date one of the prominent parliamentarians of the Vox group in the Lower House. “It has been an honor to take the stage in Congress to say what you would have liked to say,” the former deputy said through his social networks.

For the rest, Abascal takes David García, former leader of the union related to Vox, Solidaridad, to the first position in Alicante, who sounded in his day as a possible head of the list at the regional level. Who ended up being, Carlos Flores Juberías, is confirmed as number one for Valencia in Congress after the pact between the PP and Vox in the Valencian Community was conditioned by the Genoa veto of the law professor, convicted of mistreatment 20 years ago .

Abascal also recovers Jacobo González-Robatto as head of the list for Granada. Coco Robatto was a spokesperson for Vox in the Senate and gained organic weight and media focus during the campaigns in Castilla y León and Andalusia. However, it went into the background after the results in the latter region.