The PP won 16 of Madrid’s Congress seats in 2023, putting candidates lower down its next list within reach if that result is repeated. San Sebastián de los Reyes mayor Lucía Fernández is ranked 14th. Alcobendas mayor Rocío García Alcántara is 16th, while Pozuelo de Alarcón mayor Paloma Tejero is 18th. Party officials expect all three to become MPs, though that depends on the election result and whether anyone leaves the list.
The placements give three prominent local officials a route to national office. They also bring the party’s strongholds in Madrid’s so-called golden belt into its campaign for the general election scheduled for November 29. The wider regional backdrop includes a 49,200-person quarterly fall in employment in the Community of Madrid, reported by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística in its third-quarter 2026 Labour Force Survey.
The municipalities have delivered large support for the PP in recent elections. In San Sebastián de los Reyes, the party won 40.05% in the 2023 municipal vote and 49.5% in the regional election. It received 41.3% in the general election.
In Alcobendas, its vote was 42.56% municipally and 51.87% regionally. The party received 45.2% in the general election.
Pozuelo de Alarcón produced the strongest figures: 55.75% in the municipal election and 66.92% in the regional contest. The party received 58.9% in the general election. The town is described in the source material as Spain’s highest-income municipality per capita.
The mayors say they want to take local concerns to Congress. Fernández has identified the Tagus Hydrographic Confederation and airport aircraft as issues she would raise, alongside Cercanías rail services and the A-1. She has also criticised the national government’s record in their area. Tejero has cast November 29 as the start of a broader political reconstruction.
The Madrid political sector has also included complaints by former aides against Tesh Sidi, a separate matter from the PP’s candidate selections.
There is a practical condition behind the party’s confidence. The three women occupy positions 14 and 16, with Tejero at 18; they could move into seats if the list advances after candidates leave Congress to take senior posts in a future government. That possibility remains conditional, not a confirmed outcome.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso has highlighted the scale of the local administrations, saying their combined budgets total €20.4 billion. The three towns differ in income and electoral profile. Pozuelo is the party’s strongest bastion, while Alcobendas and San Sebastián de los Reyes have a larger industrial component and face a more direct contest with Vox.
The supplied figures put Alcobendas at 123,342 residents and annual gross per-capita income of €60,576. Pozuelo has 89,770 residents and income of €92,564. San Sebastián de los Reyes has 97,330 residents and income of €43,196.
