On May 28, the residents of 12 autonomous communities, together with those registered in Ceuta and Melilla, are summoned to vote in a new day of regional and municipal elections.
Thus, the citizens of Aragon, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, the Valencian Community, Extremadura, Madrid, Murcia, Navarra and La Rioja will have the opportunity to cast their vote at their corresponding polling station where they are also elected. to the representatives of 8,131 town councils.
Officially the electoral campaign begins on May 12, but both internally and publicly the parties have been campaigning since the beginning of the year. However, it will be this Wednesday, April 26, when the candidacies presented in each municipality and autonomy will be published in the official gazettes of each province and each autonomous community. Of course, they will not be final until next May 2.
From its publication in the bulletins, the competent Electoral Boards will have 48 hours to notify the representatives of the candidacies of the irregularities that they appreciate or that other representatives denounce.
And after those two days, the candidacies will also have a new period of 48 hours to be corrected, since the Electoral Law establishes that it is not possible to proclaim those that do not meet the requirements.
It will be on May 1 when the Electoral Boards proclaim the candidacies and the following day they will appear definitively published in both provincial and regional bulletins.
According to article 44 and 169.3 of Organic Law 5/1985, of June 19, on the General Electoral Regime, the following can present their candidacies for municipal and regional elections:
The same law also determines that the candidatures cannot be modified after being presented, except within the established period authorized to correct the irregularities or due to the death or resignation of the holder.
On the other hand, in the case of lists of candidates, the casualties that occur after the proclamation will be covered by the successive candidates and, where appropriate, by the substitutes.
Municipal elections are the only ones in which people who do not have Spanish nationality can vote and be elected, specifically citizens of the European Union and also citizens of the United Kingdom, Norway, Ecuador, New Zealand, Colombia, Chile, Peru , Paraguay, Iceland, Bolivia, Cape Verde, Republic of Korea and Trinidad and Tobago.
They must be of legal age, have resided in Spain for the time determined in the agreement (five years, except in the case of Norway, which is three), be registered in the register, as well as in the electoral census of foreigners residing in Spain and not be deprived of the right to active suffrage (for example, by having been deprived of passive suffrage in their countries of origin).
The electoral lists can be consulted through the regional bulletins and in the official bulletins of the Provincial Councils.
In the case of autonomies with a single province, they only have the regional bulletin:
List of the rest of the regional bulletins in which candidacies for the elections on May 28 are also presented:
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