Frente Amplio and Podemos have certified this Friday their clash ahead of the elections on November 29 and will run separately in much of the country. The new project promoted by the parties of the minority partner of the Executive has confirmed that it will present itself throughout the State through alliances that, in most autonomous communities, will not include the presence of the purples.
The last-minute contacts, rushed to the limit of the deadline to register coalitions this Friday, have borne no fruit and the outcome is a deep electoral fracture in much of the territory.
Thus, the confluence between the formations of Frente Amplio and Podemos has only been preserved in the Canary Islands and in the Valencian Community, where joint candidacies have been registered that, in the Valencian case, will be led by Compromís.
In contrast, Frente Amplio has sealed coalitions with Ara Més in the Balearic Islands and with Chunta Aragonesista in Aragon without the participation of Podemos. In parallel, in the rest of the communities, the state forces IU and Movimiento Sumar have closed other agreements for unity lists, also without the purples.
Just two hours before the deadline ended, Frente Amplio conveyed a proposal "in extremis" that offered Podemos prominent positions in Madrid and Catalonia, their inclusion in all coalition agreements in which they participate, a balanced distribution of economic resources, and one of the spokesperson positions of the future parliamentary group.
However, the formation led by Ione Belarra responded shortly before the closing of the electoral alliance registration that it rejected that proposal, considering that it implied breaking its already signed agreement with ERC in Catalonia.
In addition, Podemos urged Frente Amplio that its demands in Madrid and Barcelona should not prevent reaching understandings in most autonomous communities, and claimed to make an exception with those two places, given that Comuns and the republicans were going to run separately and that in Madrid the electoral fragmentation did not imply such a severe punishment.
Throughout the day, the discrepancies have become visible with Podemos defending the formula of asymmetrical agreements by territories, appealing in particular to IU, while maintaining the singular option of running with its own list led by former minister Irene Montero.
Frente Amplio, for its part, has rejected that strategy of partial pacts and has been closing agreements with other partners in different communities, while demanding from Podemos a comprehensive agreement of state scope that also includes Madrid and Catalonia. In the environment of this new space, it was reproached that the purple leadership had not yet sat down to negotiate formally and that, during the morning, it did not even answer the calls.
Meanwhile, Podemos has kept its collaboration pact with ERC intact, an unprecedented alliance that reserves positions as independents on the list of the sovereignist formation (6 and 10 for Barcelona) and that, above all, foresees that the republican candidate, Gabriel Rufián, shares campaign events with Irene Montero. With this, they defended that the tandem of both leaderships is what the left-wing electorate demands to reactivate that political space.