Frente Amplio will have 30% of the positions in the joint lists for the Senate that it has agreed with the PSOE for the general elections on the upcoming November 29. However, the coalition led by Ada Colau and its territorial allies will not head any provincial candidacy for the Upper Chamber, according to what elDiario.es has reported.
The agreement stipulates that the PSOE will occupy 70% of the positions, while the remaining 30% will correspond to Frente Amplio and its allies. Both formations will jointly run in 45 constituencies, with the participation of Compromís, Chunta Aragonesista, and Més in their respective territories.
No heads of list for Frente Amplio
Although Frente Amplio will have representation in the shared candidacies, none of its representatives will occupy the first position on the Senate lists. The socialists will head all the provincial candidacies included in the agreement. The distribution reflects the predominance of the PSOE in the joint lists, despite both formations agreeing to collaborate for the elections to the Upper Chamber.
However, the alliance is limited to the elections for the Senate. PSOE and Frente Amplio will run separately for the Congress of Deputies, where Ada Colau's coalition will present its own lists. The pact comes in the last days of the legal deadline to register candidacies, which ends next Monday, October 26. By then, the formations must have formalized their lists before the corresponding electoral boards.
PP and Vox continue negotiating an agreement for the Senate
While the PSOE and Frente Amplio finalize the distribution of their candidacies, PP and Vox continue negotiating a collaboration formula for the Senate elections on November 29. The conversations aim to avoid the dispersion of votes between both formations and respond to the agreement reached by the left-wing parties to jointly run for the Upper Chamber.
The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, confirmed this Friday that the conversations remain open, although he acknowledged that "nothing is closed". In an interview on Cadena SER, reported by Europa Press, he explained that he last spoke with Santiago Abascal last Wednesday and defended that Vox should consider not presenting candidates in those provinces where it has no chances of obtaining representation.
"It would be logical for Vox in those provinces where it will not obtain a senator to consider the possibility of not running and for the Popular Party to respond to that gesture," Feijóo has pointed out. The popular leader has acknowledged that the possibility of the PP renouncing to run in certain constituencies has also been studied, although he has specified that this option no longer corresponds to the current state of the conversations.
For its part, Vox does not rule out any formula of understanding with the PP. Its parliamentary spokesperson, Pepa Rodríguez de Millán, stated on Wednesday that there are different possibilities on the table and that her party does not intend to rush the agreement. Abascal, meanwhile, has avoided publicly specifying the terms of the negotiation.