Puente will appear as number one on the PSOE ballot for Valladolid despite having renounced it

Until today, Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, will continue to appear as the head of the PSOE list for Congress for Valladolid in the ballots on November 29, although he announced this Tuesday that he is resigning from being part of the candidacy. Puente has announced in the Permanent Deputation of Congress his resignation after the fatal accident in Urda (Toledo) and also that he is giving up running in the next general elections.

The proclaimed candidacies have been published precisely this Tuesday in the Official State Gazette (BOE) and, as parliamentary sources remind the Efe Agency, they can no longer be retouched. Another thing will be that Puente, if elected, does not collect his record as a deputy after the 29-N elections.

In that case, her seat would correspond to the next candidate on the list, the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo. The candidacy would run successively among the following members and, if necessary, up to the first substitute, depending on the seats obtained by the PSOE.

The electoral law does not allow modifying the lists

According to article 48 of the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime (LOREG), candidacies cannot be modified once presented, except within the period allowed for the correction of irregularities and only due to the death or resignation of the holder. But, he adds, the casualties that occur after the proclamation of the lists, as in this case, "will be understood to be covered by the successive candidates and, where appropriate, by the substitutes."

In an agreement adopted in 1977, the Central Electoral Board (JEC) decided that, in the event of resignation or death of a candidate, new ballots should not be printed with the exclusion of the candidate or with the introduction of the substitute.