Madrid list approved

Vox's National Executive Committee, the party's highest body between assemblies, approved the candidacies for the 29 November general election at its meeting on Monday, 19 October. Santiago Abascal will be the number one on the Madrid list. According to party sources cited by Europa Press and EFE, Montserrat Lluis, the party's deputy general secretary, takes second place. Juan Sergio Redondo, the Vox spokesman in the Ceuta assembly, is third. Pepa Millán, currently the party's spokesperson in Congress, is fourth, and Cristian Toro, a national sports spokesman and Madrid city councillor described by eldiario.es as an Olympic medallist, is fifth. La Vanguardia adds that María Ruiz, deputy secretary for territorial organisation, is sixth.

Lluis and the pacts with the PP

Lluis has been the Vox figure leading the negotiations with the People's Party (PP) over regional governments. La Vanguardia reports that she and Ignacio Garriga were responsible for the talks with the PP reaching agreement in the four regions where the two parties govern together. Her political career with Vox began in April 2022, when she was appointed director general of coordination and social interaction in the Castilla y León regional government after the regional elections there. She also served as chief of staff to the then regional vice-president Juan García-Gallardo, who has since left the party. In 2023 Abascal asked her to join the national party structure to coordinate government-formation talks after that year's regional and municipal elections.

Ceuta and the migration message

Redondo has led Vox in Ceuta since 2019, according to LaSexta. His placement carries particular weight because of the mass entry of migrants into Ceuta in late July. La Vanguardia reports that Abascal wants the move to signal commitment to the autonomous city and to resolve its crisis quickly, noting that thousands of people remain there and that normality has not returned to the streets. LaSexta says Redondo's designation reinforces Vox's message against irregular immigration, combined with security.

Ávila and remaining details

Samuel Vázquez, the party's national spokesman for security and immigration, heads the Vox list in Ávila, as LaSexta and La Vanguardia both report. Europa Press noted that an institutional statement from Abascal was expected following the committee's decision. The reports disagree on one name: the El Confidencial headline gives the fifth-place candidate as Carlos Toro, while its article text and the other outlets give Cristian Toro.