Finally, there will be 24 and not 25 candidacies that will be contested by the 41 councilors at stake in the Barcelona City Council in the municipal elections on May 28. This has been decided by the Barcelona Area Electoral Board, which these days is certifying the validity of the lists presented a few days ago. In the Catalan capital, the only one excluded is that of the Spanish Falange de las Jons, which according to the opinion of the Board has failed to comply with several precepts established in the electoral regulations.
Specifically, the Electoral Board, according to the agreement adopted on May 1, leaves the Falangist formation out of municipal elections for failing to comply with the requirement established in Organic Law 3/2007 for the effective equality of women and men in the whole of candidates (a minimum of 40% is set for each sex, a requirement that must be respected in each section of five candidates).
In addition, the Board has detected another irregularity, that referred to the breach of the requirement of section 6 of article 46 of the LOREG, according to which no candidate can appear in more than one constituency or be part of more than one candidacy.
Three of the members of the Falangist list in Barcelona violate this obligation. This is José Antonio Jiménez González, candidate number 11, who also appears in the candidacy of the same party in Pamplona with number 17; Amparo Espino Álvarez, number 3 in Barcelona, which also appears with number 20 in the Madrid municipality of Alcalá de Henares; and Ana Rosa Ávila Marcos, number 8 in Barcelona as well as number 13 in Zaragoza.
Although his participation in the municipal elections in Barcelona is a classic, the results do not usually accompany the Spanish Falange de las Jons. In the local elections of 2019, he barely added 131 votes (0.02%), significantly worsening the 2015 harvest, when he obtained the favor of 455 voters.
