Podemos and the Frente Amplio fail in their alliance and the left will go divided

The parties to the left of the PSOE will run separately across the national territory, except in the Valencian Community and Canary Islands. In Catalonia, the pact between Podemos and ERC prevents any joint candidacy.

According to elconfidencial.com, the parties situated to the left of the PSOE will go separately throughout the national territory, except in the Valencian Community and in the Canary Islands. The last attempt at an agreement, with last-minute offers from the Frente Amplio and Podemos, did not succeed before the deadline for registering coalitions, which expired at 23:59 this Friday.

For the Catalan reader, the key point is that there will be no alliance in Catalonia. Podemos reached an agreement with ERC whereby they will not run in the community in exchange for Gabriel Rufián supporting their events and campaigning in Madrid for Irene Montero, a party leader.

The coalition led by Ada Colau, along with Sumar, Izquierda Unida, Más Madrid, and the commons, had offered Podemos a "priority" starting position in Madrid and Catalonia, as well as a spokesperson role in Congress once the legislature was constituted. The proposal arrived three hours before the deadline and clashed with the pact of the purples with the republicans, which prevented the commons and ERC from sharing lists.

Podemos rejected the offer through a statement in which they defended seeking agreements in the rest of the communities, except in Madrid, considering that splitting the vote in the largest constituency in the country is not as penalising. From the Frente Amplio, however, they defended their proposal:

"The unity of the transformative left across Spain is a widespread demand from the citizenry and social movements throughout the country."

In Aragón, the Chunta Aragonesista and in the Balearic Islands Mes closed their coalitions at the last minute on Thursday, leaving the door open for Podemos, which the purples did not take advantage of. In the Valencian Community, the alliance is led by Compromís, and in the Canary Islands by Nueva Canarias, although there Drago, the party of Alberto Rodríguez, did not join Unidad del Pueblo Canario.