The 'number 1' of Frente Amplio for the Community of Madrid for the 29N and spokesperson for Más Madrid in the region, Emilio Delgado, has clarified that when on Tuesday he referred to supposed contacts with the PSOE to "optimize" and "maximize" the "electoral results," he was actually talking about "internal conversations" within the Frente Amplio space itself.
"I want to be extremely respectful of the work of all the colleagues who are there, and I am not going to evaluate anything," he pointed out in an interview on 'La Sexta' reported by Europa Press, avoiding clarifying more details about those conversations.
In this line, he insisted that those eventual negotiations correspond to the coalition's party table and reiterated his willingness to be "extremely respectful," emphasizing that any headline that "circulates affects those conversations."
40 days to "prevent a democratic regression" and a goal of 25 seats
On the other hand, Delgado has claimed that Frente Amplio has largely fulfilled its initial purpose by managing to bring together 15 political-territorial formations, and he emphasized that there are only 40 days left to "try to prevent a democratic regression" in Spain and offer "the future it deserves."
The leader has expressed confidence ahead of the election regarding the progressive bloc's ability to reverse the polls and has set a goal for Frente Amplio to reach 25 seats.
"I am confident, excited, and eager. I believe that those who do not trust this people are mistaken; the Spanish people have shown signs on many occasions," he indicated, showing his optimism.
Regarding the absence of parties like Podemos or Esquerra Republicana in the project, he said he respects their decision and has refused to "settle scores" or lament "what could have been and was not." Likewise, he has assured that he does not feel "betrayed" by the spokesperson of ERC in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, and has emphasized that political trajectories are marked much more by "what they do than by what they say."
In this context, he lamented that "precious time" has been lost in negotiations over positions and urged to shift the focus to issues such as the cost of living and access to housing. "It cannot be that half of the wealth of Spain is found in 10% of the population," he emphasized.
"Drying up the sources" of the far right
Furthermore, the spokesperson for Más Madrid has warned that the increase in inequality is fueling the growth of the far right and has argued that, to stop it, it is not enough to point it out, but it is necessary to "dry up the sources from which it drinks" through a policy of wealth redistribution.
In the same vein, he has criticized the political model represented by the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, supported by Vox, whom he has described as a "chainsaw that only works downwards," with cuts to rights for workers and pensioners that do not affect large fortunes.
Regarding Milei's visit to Spain, in another interview on RNE, he confessed that "he is not very clear about what he has come for" and joked that "if he has come to explain to Ayuso how to destroy jobs, sink wages, and cut," it was unnecessary because that, the president of the Community of Madrid, "knows how to do it alone."
Finally, he referred to the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, stating that "he has a significant whirlwind in his head," referring to his statements in which he claimed that "with the paper of having ordered a pizza" one cannot evict squatters.
"It would be better for him to focus on what the PP can actually do today regarding housing, because it just so happens that it governs the majority of the autonomous communities that have 90% of the competencies in housing matters," Delgado concluded.