Housing, housing and housing. And social justice. Those are the two pillars with which Frente Amplio, the coalition of more than a dozen left-wing parties led by Ada Colau and Emilio Delgado, will compete in the upcoming elections on 29 November.
And they will do so under the slogan 'A vote like a house', according to sources from the coalition, in case there were any kind of doubt about the element that will underpin the program they will launch in the coming days. In the face of the pessimism of polls which unanimously condemn the progressive bloc and assure an absolute majority of PP and Vox for the next four years, Frente Amplio does not resign itself. There is momentum and, as in 2023, they will turn those predictions around again.
Their campaign spokesperson, Minister of Social Rights Pablo Bustinduy, presented this Monday in Madrid a campaign recalling more than a decade of bad omens for the left. Since the 2015 campaign, in which Podemos emerged, all polling has underestimated the representation of the left.
And, to be right in the face of this "wave of inevitability" installed among the electorate, Bustinduy calls on people to look at the "apostles" of the reactionary front and how they have fallen one by one in recent months: Brazil, where Flavio Bolsonaro's victory was considered a sure thing --"He took a suitcase of polls to Miami"--, but also the Democratic wave in the midterms in the United States, Netanyahu's defeat in Israel or, further back, Orban's fall in Hungary.
"That cycle was neither inevitable, nor will it happen in Spain," Bustinduy assures. There is momentum. And, so it can be won, they appeal to the coalition as the useful vote that can tip the scales, and that has more options to multiply their results if, in the twenty days left until the elections, they receive the backing that today the polls do not grant them.
In the coalition they cite a string of provinces that distribute few seats where the chances of securing representation are decided by a few votes. And, most of them, at the expense of whoever Vox may secure. If they win that battle, Bustinduy emphasizes, the progressive bloc will prevail.
It is the case of the Galician constituencies of A Coruña and Pontevedra; Málaga, Granada, Córdoba and Cádiz in Andalucía; Navarra, Bizkaia, Zaragoza, Asturias, Alicante and the island constituencies (Santa Cruz, Gran Canaria and Baleares). The threshold is not exact in all of them, but it is around 10%. "This threshold will allow an exponential multiplication and the transformation of the framework in which these elections take place," anticipates the Minister of Social Rights.