The Minister of Social Rights and spokesperson for the Frente Amplio candidacy, Pablo Bustinduy, has urged political formations to put aside debates about their internal matters and electoral lists, after the confrontation between Chunta Aragonesista (CHA) and IU over the decision not to present a candidacy for Congress in the province of Teruel.
In statements to "La Sexta", reported by Europa Press, he explained that the controversy generated by Chunta's determination not to run in Teruel, against IU's firm rejection, should be resolved in Aragón and that it will be the political forces of the territory who adopt the final resolution.
Aside from this disagreement, he emphasized that those who have the responsibility to represent the left-wing electorate and the social majority, "regardless of how they voted in the past," must focus their message on policies for the citizens, such as increasing wages or facilitating access to housing.
"This is what people are asking us, let's talk about what matters to them and let's talk about what these elections are about, which is a referendum on the right to housing against those who defend the vultures. Enough talking about us," Bustinduy demanded.
Questioned about whether there are conversations between PSOE and Frente Amplio to articulate joint candidacies in the smaller provinces with the aim of optimizing the result at the polls, Bustinduy responded that his candidacy aims to achieve a historic result to defeat the far-right and that his obligation is to talk about housing, pensions, and wages, setting aside the internal debates of the parties.
"Less talking about ourselves, about the lists of so-and-so, about who goes here or who goes there, which no one cares about, and more focusing on what these elections are about, which is defending the rights we have won," Bustinduy prescribed, who precisely this Wednesday debuts as spokesperson for Frente Amplio.
In relation to the appeal from the president and leader of PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, asking for votes for his party as the main red force, the Minister of Social Rights has ironized by comparing the campaigns to "when one has a wedding" and the "day before goes to the hairdresser" to "look good."
In any case, he has defended that "everything the most valuable that has been taken out in this legislature" comes from his political space and has assured that the citizenship has enough "political intelligence" to identify who has been the main driver of the social advances achieved during the mandate.