Rafael "Rafa" Mayoral Perales (born 1974) is a Spanish politician, lawyer and activist.

[1][2] He led the Madrid regional organization of the Communist Youth in the 1990s, where he met Pablo Iglesias Turrión.

[3] In 2010 he headed a list to the 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Madrid (PCM), but Daniel Álvarez Morcillo, a Madrid municipal councillor adept to the orthodox line represented by Ángel Pérez, became the new Secretary-General of the PCM,[4] with Mayoral retreating and ultimately calling for endorsement to Mauricio Valiente.

He has worked as lawyer for Ecuadorian neighbour associations against evictions, with Mayoral later becoming a member of the Madrid branch of the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH), a grassroots anti-eviction movement.

Elected, he became a member of the 11th term of the Congress of Deputies,[9] the Lower House of the Cortes Generales.