Parties and coalitions can submit their candidate lists through Monday 26 October. PSOE and Frente Amplio have agreed a joint Senate slate called 'Senado de Progreso', while PP and Vox are still discussing a possible formula.
On 21 October, Spain’s Constitutional Court rejected the Ombudsman’s appeal against the Supreme Court’s resolution suspending voting rights for naturalised citizens covered by the Ley de Nietos, or Law of Democratic Memory. The decision, made by 10 votes to two, was procedural: the court said the ordinary proceedings before the Supreme Court were still open and affected parties could submit objections. It did not rule on the merits of the appeal or remove anyone’s Spanish citizenship or passport; the suspension concerns voting from abroad through the CERA register.
A report by Constitutional Court lawyers that emerged on Monday recommended rejecting the appeal, arguing that other procedures before the Supreme Court must first be exhausted. The ruling leaves the underlying dispute unresolved as the Supreme Court process continues.
In early September, the Supreme Court provisionally suspended new CERA registrations for citizens naturalised under the Law of Democratic Memory. It required consulates to confirm applicants’ descent from Spaniards who had left the country in political exile or under other grounds covered by the law. The measures, brought after challenges by Iustitia Europa and Vox, affect up to 163,020 registered voters. They concern participation in elections from abroad, not citizenship; naturalised citizens living in Spain retain the ability to vote there.
Separately, parties and coalitions have until Monday, 26 October, to file their lists for Congress and the Senate in the 29 November general election. The coalition-registration deadline has passed. Parties are expected to use the remaining time to complete their candidate lists and settle the order of names on each ballot.
PSOE and Frente Amplio have agreed to run together for the Senate under the name “Senado de Progreso”. The socialists say they will lead all the joint lists. PP and Vox are also discussing a formula intended to prevent the left from controlling the upper house. The negotiations were covered in an earlier Senate report, but the current update confirms no agreement.
The submitted candidacies are due to appear in the Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) on 28 October. Parties can then correct irregularities before the lists are formally proclaimed on 2 November. The final candidacies are scheduled for publication in the BOE the following day. Any subsequent challenge would go to the courts.
Argentine President Javier Milei arrived in Spain on 20 October for a visit during the pre-campaign, his seventh to the country. His programme includes economic forums and a meeting in Madrid on 21 October with Fundación Disenso, a Vox-linked think tank, alongside its director Jorge Martín Frías and Vox secretary-general Ignacio Garriga. A meeting with Madrid regional president Isabel Díaz Ayuso was planned for 21 October. Pedro Sánchez’s government was not included in the published programme.
