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Personalisms once again frustrate the unity of the alternative left: Podemos and Frente Amplio fail and exhibit division before the electorate
The alternative left to the PSOE will run divided in the November 29 elections in most territories. The latest offers, launched at the stroke of midnight, show the failure of negotiations.
Rufián and Podemos, the electoral "tandem" for the 29N elections that distances the Broad Front
ERC could include independents from Podemos on its lists, a formula that, according to the Congress Regulations, could limit the formation of separate groups.
Podemos insists on holding open primaries after Más Madrid's proposal for Ada Colau to lead Frente Amplio
The purple party, which has maintained a clear strategy of differentiation from other forces throughout the legislature, does not change its position and reminds that the calendar is pressing: it urges Sumar to reconsider and accept a primary process
The five Sumar ministers decide their future today while the PSOE asks Sánchez to call elections: "We must seize the window of opportunity"
The president's inner circle and voices from Ferraz advocate taking advantage of "the window of opportunity" of the mobilized streets, and a call for a vote on November 29 could be announced on Monday, November 5.
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The phones in Moncloa are burning, there is a lot of tension": Sumar thinks about the option of calling elections if the housing decrees fall this Friday
"Tomorrow Bustinduy will defend the second decree and the speech will be in an electoral key," internal sources from Sumar; from the Más Madrid wing, they raise the stakes and propose elections as a response to the NO from Junts, PP, and Vox
The two housing decrees approved by Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz: the keys to the PSOE and Sumar measures
Government sources advance to 'ElConstitucional.es' the content of the two decrees approved in the Council of Ministers
The Government and parliamentary partners assume the urgency of an agreement on housing but note "distant" positions
The pressure from the streets, with a new encampment fifteen years after 15-M, is pressuring the government's partners, with a threat from Sumar included, not to enter the Council of Ministers.
The PP's silence regarding Maricarmen's eviction: the 'populares' opposed the extension that would have prevented her expulsion from her home
The opposing positions of the parliamentary partners and the rejection of the right-wing parties have kept negotiations, which Moncloa is now trying to unblock "as soon as possible," stranded since July.
Who ordered the purchase of the luxury penthouse by Planifica Madrid?: the key questions surrounding Ayuso that still remain unanswered
The official documentation explains the operation in three blocks: purchase, rental, and sale, but it does not clarify who gave the order to acquire a 485-square-meter property or why that specific penthouse was chosen.
The Government takes its eleventh decree-law struck down in Congress and the PSOE assumes that the legislature will be increasingly uphill
The fall of the 'lobbies' law raises to 39 the votes lost by the Executive and evidences the difficulties to maintain a stable parliamentary majority
Margarita Robles offers to appear with the director of the CNI for Ceuta and Marlaska stands up to the PP in a heated control session in the Senate: "I will remain here"
The Government vindicates in the Senate its response to the massive entry in July and accuses the right of fueling hoaxes, xenophobia and confrontation, while the Popular Party insists on prior warnings and demands political responsibilities
The PP imposes its plan for Ceuta in the Senate and accuses Sánchez of "capitulation" to Morocco
The popular majority recovers the motion rejected by Congress and approves declaring the situation of interest for National Security and giving military personnel the status of agents of authority; the PSOE denounces "tin patriotism"
Sánchez seeks to regain media momentum while Feijóo shields his message from his own people in the face of the Ceuta crisis
Ferraz and Génova agree on the need to give a final push to their interests in a political year they define as "uncertain" as well as "intense"
The PP turns the crisis in Ceuta into its great offensive in the Senate and the Government labels its proposals as "impossible or even illegal"
Popular spokesperson Alicia García accuses the Executive of covering up Morocco's responsibility and demands a date for returns, while Cuerpo asks for "institutional responsibility" and admits that every day without normality "is a day we are late"
The ultra-right AfD wins where Nazism rehearsed power and shakes the foundations of German democracy
The territory that in 1932 the first Nazi prime minister president gave to a German state now places a pro-Russian and anti-immigration AfD three deputies away from governing, which raises alarms in Brussels and is celebrated in Spain by the far-right Vox
Sánchez's partners already take for granted an early election at the beginning of 2027
PNV and Podemos believe that the Ceuta crisis has exposed "the seams" of an "increasingly weak" government, while the president insists on exhausting the legislature.
Sánchez pulls "farming aura" and the "six seven" to speak before the Youth Council about rent, scholarships, and youth precarity
The president has admitted to the CJE that he is unaware of part of its codes but he does know the youth reality of Spain, he has defended the rental bonus and the minimum wage and has asked young people to continue "making noise" and demanding answers
Sánchez's partners see the legislature "knocked out" after an isolated president who avoided pointing fingers at Morocco in Congress
Deputies from the different parties that support the Government agree that the president has been left alone against the Alawi kingdom, further complicating the scarce options of making the last political year useful before the elections
The situation in Ceuta outlines the most complicated start to the academic year for the Government, which is redefining its initiative and political agenda until the crisis is resolved
The economy and housing were supposed to mark the government's "last push" before the elections, while the PP faces the term with a "sunk" executive and no time.
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