Sandra Piñeiro Vilas presides over the Provincial Electoral Board of Lugo

The Provincial Electoral Board of Lugo has been definitively constituted with magistrate Sandra María Piñeiro Vilas as president, according to the announcement by the body’s secretary, Justino Gonzalo Corchero Martín, published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Lugo (BOP) No. 261, of November 13, 2026, with official reference R. 3097. The constitution is part of the elections to the General Courts on November 29, 2026, convened by Royal Decree 806/2026, of October 5 (published in the BOE the following day).

The text, signed in Lugo on November 10, 2026, indicates that the elections were convened by the aforementioned royal decree and that the Board was constituted “definitively” in compliance with the provisions of Article 14 of the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime (LOREG). The announcement is included under the heading “Elections to the General Courts of November 29, 2026” of the provincial gazette.

Definitive composition of the body

The Provincial Electoral Board of Lugo is composed as follows:

• President: Sandra María Piñeiro Vilas, magistrate of the Criminal Section of the Court of Lugo and president of the Provincial Court of Lugo.
• Judicial members: Beatriz de las Nieves Álvarez Casanova, magistrate of the Civil Section of the Provincial Court of Lugo; Darío Antonio Reigosa Cubero, magistrate of the civil section of the Provincial Court of Lugo; and Rodrigo Pavón Prieto, practicing lawyer.
• Non-judicial members: José Manuel Colmenero Álvarez, representing the National Statistics Institute (INE), and Francisco López-Quiroga Núñez, practicing lawyer.
• Secretary: Justino Gonzalo Corchero Martín, managing lawyer of the Common Processing Service of Lugo.

From initial constitution to definitive composition

The Board had already been constituted on October 9, 2026, in a first announcement also signed by the secretary and published in BOP No. 235, which listed the president, two judicial members, and the secretary. The announcement now disseminated completes that composition and grants it a definitive character, exactly one week before the electoral date and in the same issue of the gazette in which the Provincial Deputation of Lugo publishes other personnel resolutions.

In this same electoral process, the provincial gazette has been collecting the list of sections, polling stations, and electoral tables of the province, published on October 12 and rectified on October 27 through the Electoral Census Office of the Provincial Delegation of Lugo, as well as the composition of the zone electoral boards, such as that of Chantada, disseminated on October 14, and that of Fonsagrada, published on November 12 and certified by its secretary, Ana Rodríguez Puga, by order of the Provincial Electoral Board itself.

Competence framework and effects on the process

The constitution of the Provincial Electoral Board is the step that activates its decision-making capacity regarding the development of the campaign and the election day in the province. The announcements of the zone boards refer expressly to the instructions of the Provincial Electoral Board of Lugo, which confirms this hierarchical dependence in the ordinary functioning of the process.

Furthermore, the publication in the official bulletin provides formal publicity regarding the composition of the body to parties, candidacies, proxies, and voters, who may direct their inquiries and claims to it during the electoral period.

Relevance

With the Provincial Electoral Board now definitively constituted and the zone boards deployed throughout the territory, the province of Lugo has the complete arbitral structure for general elections to be held on November 29, 2026. For voters, the composition published in the bulletin is the official reference regarding who resolves electoral disputes in the province.

Source: Official Bulletin of the Province of Lugo (BOP), no. 261, November 13, 2026, announcements of the Provincial Electoral Board, p. 1 (official reference: R. 3097).