Overview
- Secretary general Ignacio Garriga announced the pick after a meeting of Vox’s National Executive Committee on November 11.
- Ángel Pelayo Gordillo will head the Badajoz list and is slated to assume leadership of Vox’s presence in the Senate in the coming months.
- Vox currently sits in the Senate’s mixed group alongside UPN as it seeks to strengthen its parliamentary standing.
- The party’s platform highlights defense of agriculture, opposition to certain climate policies, tighter immigration control, cuts to political spending, and repeal of what it calls ideological laws.
- Fernández Calle, Vox’s spokesperson in the Extremadura assembly and former top candidate in Cáceres, steps in as the party seeks to improve on its five seats won in 2023 and to challenge María Guardiola’s PP government.