Inmaculada Valeije Álvarez, new member of the Electoral Board of Galicia

Inmaculada Valeije Álvarez has been a member of the Galician Electoral Board since this Wednesday, November 11. Decree 137/2026, of November 9, signed by the president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda Valenzuela, fills the vacancy left by Gumersindo Guinarte Cabada and was published in the Official Gazette of Galicia number 216, corresponding to November 11, 2026, on page 56541 (reference CVE-DOG: 6af6q3n0-b3m8-vf55-oqk5-qgtl0nrthka4).

The appointment is made by proposal of the Bureau of the Parliament of Galicia, as stated in the decree itself by invoking number 2.b) of article 14 of Law 8/1985, of August 13, on elections to the Parliament of Galicia. The same regulation, in article 15.1, is what enables the Xunta to formalize the designation through a decree published in the regional official bulletin.

The text published in section II of the DOG, heading B) Appointments, under the rubric of the Presidency of the Xunta de Galicia, includes the chronology explaining the substitution: the current members of the body were appointed by Decree 160/2024, of June 24, and on October 27, 2026, Gumersindo Guinarte Cabada submitted his resignation from the position of member.

A vacancy filled by proposal of the Parliament

The decree is structured into a brief explanatory part and a single resolutive article. In the operative part, the Xunta arranges “to appoint, by proposal of the Bureau of the Parliament of Galicia, as a member of the Galician Electoral Board the professor indicated below”, and subsequently, a single name appears on the list:

• Inmaculada Valeije Álvarez, as a member of the Galician Electoral Board.

The regulation does not incorporate any annex, economic report, or transitional regime. The final part is limited to a Final Provision that establishes its validity: the decree “shall enter into force on the same day of its publication in the Official Gazette of Galicia”. The signature is dated in Santiago de Compostela on November nine, two thousand twenty-six.

Composition of the electoral body

The explanatory part of the decree details the architecture of the Galician Electoral Board established in article 14.1, letters c) and d), of Law 8/1985. According to that precept, the body is composed, among other members, of:

• Four members who are magistrates of the High Court of Justice of Galicia.
• Four members who are active professors of the faculties of Law, Political Science, or Sociology of the universities of Galicia.

The designation of the latter corresponds to the regional Parliament through its Bureau, while the material formalization of the appointment is channeled through a decree of the President of the Xunta. The vacancy now filled is, based on the profile of the appointed person, one of the four university professor memberships.

Immediate validity in an active electoral calendar

The publication coincides with intense activity from the electoral bodies. In the same issue 216 of the DOG, the Provincial Electoral Board of A Coruña publishes an agreement dated November 9 making known the Radio and Television Commission responsible for proposing the distribution of free propaganda spaces for the elections to the Congress of Deputies and the Senate on the upcoming November 29, convened by Royal Decree 806/2026, of October 5 (page 56617).

That agreement, signed by the secretary of the provincial board, Lourdes Villegas Castrillo, details the four members of the commission: Francisco Suárez Fernández as president, Antón Baldomir Vilela as secretary, Estevo Sánchez Gálvez as member, and Silvia Seixas Naia as member. The coincidence of both publications underlines that the partial renewal of the Electoral Board of Galicia occurs while the control mechanisms of the electoral process are fully deployed.

The substitution guarantees the complete composition of the regional body, which exercises surveillance and control functions over the electoral procedure in Galicia. The incorporation of Inmaculada Valeije Álvarez takes effect from November 11, without a waiting period, meaning the new member can participate immediately in the Board’s deliberations.

Source: Official Gazette of Galicia (DOG), no. 216, November 11, 2026, section II (Authorities and personnel), B) Appointments, p. 56541 (official reference: CVE-DOG: 6af6q3n0-b3m8-vf55-oqk5-qgtl0nrthka4; Decree 137/2026, of November 9).