The two principal veterinary candidates on Spain’s proclaimed election lists are both in Cádiz, but they are running for different chambers. Jacinto Muñoz Madrid is first on the PP list for the Senate; María Isabel Moreno Fernández is fourth on the PSOE list for the Congress of Deputies.
Animal’s Health identified seven candidates with veterinary training or professional experience: three on PP lists, two for the PSOE, one for Frente Amplio and one for Senado de Progreso. Two are principal candidates and five are substitutes. The Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) published the proclaimed lists on 3 November.
The general election is scheduled for Sunday 29 November 2026. Voters will choose representatives to the Congress and Senate, the two chambers of Spain’s Cortes Generales. Frente Amplio brings together organisations including Izquierda Unida, Movimiento Sumar, Más Madrid and Comuns. Senado de Progreso is a joint Senate candidacy presented by the PSOE and left-wing forces across much of the country.
Muñoz Madrid is a veterinary graduate whose political career is linked to Algeciras. Moreno Fernández, also a veterinary graduate, has worked in small-animal clinics and entered national politics after clinical work and municipal life in El Gastor. They are the only two principal candidates among the seven identified.
The other Congress candidates are substitutes. In Burgos, PP’s José Antonio Antón Quirce is third substitute. A veterinarian by training, he has also worked in education management. In 2019, he left his post on Burgos city council to become provincial director of education. In Lugo, Ramón Carballo Páez is third substitute for the PP. He graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the University of León and has worked as an official of the Xunta de Galicia.
Frente Amplio’s Luis Miguel Nistal Tomé is first substitute on the Congress list for León. His political activity is linked to Izquierda Unida, and he has worked as a self-employed veterinarian. For Congress, substitutes belong to the list filed by each candidacy. Vacancies are filled according to the established order among candidates who did not win a seat and, where applicable, substitutes.
The two Senate substitutes are attached to named principal candidates. In Gran Canaria, Luis Zamorano Arantegui is second substitute to Juan Jesús Facundo Suárez on the PSOE list. He graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Zaragoza in 2000, gained a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Animal Pathology in 2004 and joined the Cuerpo Nacional Veterinario in 2010. His work has included sheep farming and pig clinical practice.
In Segovia, Cristina Herrero Arranz is first substitute to Alberto López Villa on the joint Senate list. The definitive list gives its designation as SDP (PSOE-IU-MS), for the PSOE, Izquierda Unida and Movimiento Sumar. Herrero is a veterinary graduate whose experience includes small-animal clinics and professional veterinary trade union activity. She was Sumar’s Congress candidate for Segovia in 2023. Separately, RUSSPAIN has covered Spain’s animal welfare law.
