The spokesperson for the PSOE in Congress, Patxi López, urged left-wing parties this Friday to reach an agreement with the socialists to run together in the elections for the Senate, just hours before the deadline for the constitution of electoral coalitions expired.
“I always have confidence in the intelligence of the left and that we are capable of seeing what we have in front of us, of seeing what is at stake,” López said in statements to the media before the meeting of the Permanent Commission, in remarks in which he appealed to both political calculation and the convenience of concentrating the vote.
Socialists and parties to their left have been negotiating a possible unity candidacy for days, after the platform Senadoras y Senadores por la Democracia presented an initiative in favor of concentrating the left's vote, with the aim of maximizing support and wresting control of the Upper House from the Popular Party (PP).
In that context, Patxi López insisted that a joint list would favor the distribution of seats and asked these parties to be able to see what “not only intelligence but also mathematics” tells them, in reference to the electoral utility of a unitary candidacy. “Let's be intelligent enough to do what needs to be done,” he stated.
The PSOE also looks at a possible alliance between the Frente Amplio and Podemos
Asked about a possible left-wing coalition that brings together the Frente Amplio and Podemos in the elections to Congress, the socialist spokesperson stressed that the PSOE would like there to be “unity” so that “the value of no vote would be lost.”
Even so, López made it clear that the PSOE will not interfere in this negotiation and dialogue process, a path that, in his words, “hopefully will bear fruit,” and that must be resolved in the coming hours, before 12 midnight this Friday.
López denies new maneuvers by Moroccan military vessels
In other matters, Patxi López denied that there had been new maneuvers by Moroccan military vessels in Spanish waters in recent days, during the visit of the Kings to Ceuta and Melilla, and assured that “no one is aware of them.”
“I am not aware of anything about those vessels they are talking about, and for now I believe that no one is aware of all those maneuvers,” he indicated this Friday in statements to the media in Congress, before entering the meeting of the Permanent Deputation.
His words come after the newspaper ABC published the alleged incursion of a Moroccan patrol boat that would have remained for hours off the coast of Ceuta this Thursday, October 15, an episode that, according to that information, would have occurred shortly after the visit of Felipe VI and Letizia to Ceuta and Melilla.
In the same vein, sources from Moncloa indicated that “neither the Civil Guard nor the Navy are aware of any incidents occurring after July 30 and 31,” and added that coordination between navies and administrations is “good and constant.”
Those days, coinciding with the massive entry of some 80,000 people from Morocco to Ceuta irregularly, Rabat's military vessels encroached on Spanish waters, an episode that the Government did not reveal.