On October 27th, due to the Inability to approve budgets for 2026 and “in order not to waste Extremadura’s time,” María Guardiola – President of the Junta de Extremadura and the Popular Party of the region – announced that the regional elections would be brought forward to December 21st.
Next Sunday, December 21st, more than 890,000 Extremadurans are called to the polls to decide the political future of the Autonomous Community. The CIS points to a loss of nine seats for the PSOE and a PP-Vox pact. Of the four majority groups, three are repeat representatives: María Guardiola for the Popular Party, Miguel Ángel Gallardo for the PSOE and Irene de Miguel for Unidas Podemos. Vox, in turn, presents a new candidate: Oscar Fernandez CalleSpeaker of the group in the Assembly of Extremadura and President of the same in Cáceres since 2019.
He has a degree in Nursing from the University of Extremadura and an Executive Master’s degree in Commercial Management and Marketing from the Institute of Corporate Directors in Madrid Regional manager of a multinational company of the pharmaceutical sector, in addition to being Founding partner of companies the hospitality industry and food distribution.
According to a video posted on his party’s Instagram account, he took the plunge into politics because he “began to be attracted by what he heard from Santiago Abascal” and because he saw in Vox a group that “did and defended what I thought.” A native of Cáceres – one of four brothers, now married and father of two teenage children – has been at the top of the Vox lists in the province since 2019although he did not win a seat in the Upper House that first time, after holding various positions on the provincial executive committee.
Already in 2023, Vox received 8.1% of the vote in the regional elections in Cáceres, gaining five seats, and this has been the case ever since Party spokesman in the Assembly of Extremaduraand became a familiar face in the region’s politics. After it was announced that he would be the group’s candidate in the next regional elections, Fernández Calle thanked through his social networks the “trust” of Santiago Abascal and the National Executive Committee for the appointment as list leader, which he sees as “an honor” but also “a responsibility and a challenge”.
He wanted to thank the party for “the work, commitment, commitment and faith over so many years”; and to his sympathizers and allies who “carried” them along. The native of Cáceres has shown himself hard and powerful against María Guardiola and his group’s politics, which he considers “continuist” and “a copy of socialist politics.”
The speech with which Fernández presents his candidacy focuses on the need Break the PP-PSOE two-party systemto bring about a change that, as he understands, was thwarted by the Guardiola government. His “first objective,” he has expressed, will be “to oust Fernández Vara and the PSOE from the presidency of the Junta de Extremadura,” because they consider them “the culprits of the misery, the ruin, the unemployment, the forgetting, the backwardness and the massive exodus of our young people that we suffer in this community.”
In its position, it also prioritizes the defense of the Extremaduran landscape, the protection of the Almaraz nuclear power plant (the closure of its two reactors is scheduled for 2026 and 2027, with an extension until 2030, requested by Iberdrola, Endesa and Naturgy, pending review by the Center for Nuclear Safety). Cutting political spendingand a rejection of irregular migration and what the group sees as “ideological laws.”
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