The campaign spokesperson for Frente Amplio, Pablo Bustinduy, maintained the unknown this Monday regarding the number of constituencies in which the coalition will run due to the deadline for the registration of electoral lists for 29N, which ends today, and limited himself to stating, generically, that the candidacy will be represented “throughout the country”.
In statements to the media, Pablo Bustinduy did not specify whether the party will run in all provinces nor did he provide details on the territorial deployment of the coalition, at a time when the configuration of the lists remains open in several constituencies.
No confirmation on new agreements with Podemos
The spokesperson also did not comment on whether more agreements could occur to include Podemos candidates as independents on the lists, such as the one signed in Baleares between Ara Més and the “purples”, and defended that within Frente Amplio “everyone fits”.
As he stressed, the new political project of the parties from the minority wing of the Executive wants to live up to what the progressive electorate demands and focus the discourse on issues that interest citizens, such as housing, pensions, or fiscal justice.
After the agreement between Podemos and Ara Més in Baleares, Pablo Bustinduy insisted that the candidacy will never confuse loyalties or “mistake adversaries”, in a message with which he tried to emphasize the breadth of the political space that Frente Amplio aspires to articulate.
Several provinces still without designated candidates
Asked about the possibility of Frente Amplio having a candidacy in all provinces in the Congress, except in Teruel, a constituency that the Chunta Aragonesista has renounced to leave the progressive lane to the PSOE, Bustinduy merely pointed out that the deadline for candidacies closes tonight and that it will be seen that Frente Amplio will be “the option throughout the country to defend the interests of the working classes in this country”.
Frente Amplio faces the closing of the lists for the general elections on 29N with several constituencies still without designated candidates for the Congress, as is the case in several provinces of Andalusia and also in Galicia, Euskadi, Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla y León.
A close of negotiations marked by the fracture with Podemos
Frente Amplio closed the first milestone of the electoral race with negotiations up to the limit to agree on electoral coalitions last Friday, October 23, an event that consummated the fracture with Podemos, although it revalidated alliances with territorial partners such as Chunta Aragonesista or Compromís.
Most leaders have stressed that there will be electoral lists in all provinces except in exceptional cases such as Teruel, in a final phase of the process in which the coalition seeks to finalize the registration of candidacies before the deadline scheduled for this Monday.