Podemos and IU advance in their coalitions for the 28-M while the role of Más País is yet to be defined in various CCAAs

MADRID, 19 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Podemos and IU continue to advance in the pacts to run together in the May elections one hundred days before the elections, having already closed coalitions in nine territories, to which several Andalusian cities have joined, with the prospect of continuing to expand this alliance and incorporate other forces .

For its part, the role of Más País in various autonomies is still unclear, given that in Murcia the possibility of running with both forces has not materialized, in the Canary Islands it advocates a unitary candidacy of all forces and in Andalusia they have suspended all the negotiations that were going on with Podemos and IU.

The premise of broad-front candidacies with which the forces of Unidas Podemos faced this political cycle will not prevent the fragmentation of the left beyond the PSOE in some regions. And it is that Más Madrid and Compromís (Valencia), Mes (Baleares) or La Chunta (Aragón) will also be their electoral rivals. A possibility that also occurs in the Canary Islands since the irruption of the Drago project of the purple former deputy Alberto Rodríguez.

The strong tension that Podemos and IU experienced for the creation of the 'For Andalusia' coalition in the last regional elections in this community has not spread to other regions, since both forces are advancing to increase joint candidacies for these elections, with respect to to 2019.

To date, Podemos and IU have already achieved unitary lists for the autonomous and local ones in Navarra, Madrid, Cantabria, Murcia, Extremadura, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, which are added to the agreement in Catalonia for the municipal ones (under the umbrella of the common ones) and in Euskadi, both for the local and foral elections.

In addition, the idea is to extend the period to establish alliances until mid-March and see if they can be extended to more formations and groups, recognizing that the local casuistry has a complexity that requires more time to close the pacts, as IU recently explained.

The objective of Podemos and IU is to achieve the maximum possible convergence for 28M and, therefore, the idea is to also culminate a coalition in La Rioja, which was advanced months ago but has not yet materialized, and in the Valencian Community, at breaking off negotiations with Compromís and not seeing, as space sources commented, a commitment in favor of electoral unity.

Precisely in this region, Podemos and Alianza Verde, the environmental party of the confederal space, have already signed an agreement to join forces on 28-M, waiting for the contacts with IU to come to fruition. The formation led by the deputy Juantxo López de Uralde is also part of various electoral agreements with the Basque Country, Murcia and Madrid.

The Andalusian case is unique where the relations of Podemos and IU have been recomposed for the electoral appointment and there are already advanced joint candidacies in Seville, Córdoba and also in Almería, where the lists are already very advanced. However, in Malaga the scenario is one of rupture and the two forces opted to go separately.

Other confluence agreements of the two formations have also been reached at the municipal level, such as in Guadalajara and Cuenca, with the desire to also advance in León.

The alliance of Podemos and IU in Asturias and Aragón is presented as complicated, two territories in which they have never competed together. Meanwhile, in Castilla-La Mancha, a party table for a joint list is being explored, where both forces have shown their willingness to champion an eventual list of unity.

The causistry of the Andalusian case has also generated that Más País, which joined the 'Por Andalucía' coalition, has decided to distance itself from the pacts forged between Podemos and IU for the Andalusian municipal governments and shuffles not to present its own candidacies for these elections.

In Murcia, it is yet to be defined whether the Errejón brand in this community will finally have a confluence with Podemos and IU, since the purples want IU to be the one to fit them. In this wait, Más Región has sealed an electoral alliance with Verdes Equo under the name of Green Coalition.

Meanwhile, in Castilla La Mancha it is part of that party table and in the Canary Islands recently the party linked to Errejón stated that it was not aligned with any block and insisted on reaching a unitary agreement. And it is that on the one hand Podemos and IU have extended their electoral agreement (together with 'Sí se puede') while Alberto Rodríguez's brand has drawn up alliances with Verdes Equo and Ahora Canarias. Nor does Más País appear in other agreements forged by the forces that make up Unidas Podemos, as is the case with Euskadi.

In this way, the appointment to the regional ones will leave unity candidacies such as in Navarra, with a coalition of Podemos, IU, Batzarre and Independientes, under the Unidas Podemos brand and also in other regions where Podemos and IU are in the majority, such as Extremadura.

However, and as happened in other elections, there will not be a common umbrella and there are a plurality of brands, some to be defined, although the will of the confederal space is to maintain those that have worked or preponderate the name of the formations on the ballot, so that their electorate is recognized.

Sumar, the platform promoted by Second Vice President Yolanda Díaz with the aim of regrouping the left, will not arrive for this appointment, given that the project is of a national nature, although it recently revealed that it is holding meetings with parties in this regard.