The PSOE pressures for unity on its left: "Please, reach an agreement"

BarcelonaThe PSOE is determined to try to take advantage of the social outcry for the right to housing to repeat a progressive majority after the general elections. Although the bulk of the polls do not show it, the messages from the Spanish government appeal to the spirit of the comeback. "The PSOE will be the leading force on November 29, I am absolutely convinced of it," stated Minister Óscar Puente this morning in statements to SER. And aware that the hypothetical socialist victory – which only the CIS grants – would not by any means guarantee continuity in government, he called for unity among the parties to the left of the PSOE, in the midst of negotiations surrounding the Broad Front: "As things are going, the risks that exist and the problems that must be faced, reach an agreement, create a candidacy that gathers the vote of the people who do not want to vote for the PSOE,” he said.

The start of the pre-campaign, marked in the last few hours by the death of Maricarmen Abascal, shows that these will be very polarized elections between the right and the left. Without going any further, President Pedro Sánchez himself said in an interview with Eldiario.es that it is "time for Parliament to look more like the street and not like those who live in penthouses," in reference to the PP and the controversy surrounding Isabel Díaz Ayuso's properties. The Popular Party spokesperson in Congress, Ester Muñoz, was quick to respond via X: "Parliament looks like the street. The one it doesn't look like is you." Be that as it may, Sánchez has insisted that a "broader" progressive majority is needed to "intervene" in the housing market, and has said that it is requested by the "clamor" of the street. It is a call to voters that also adds pressure to the parties of the alternative left to the socialists.

The latest movements in this regard bear the name of Ada Colau. The former mayor of Barcelona has shown herself willing to head a consensus candidacy provided that Podemos joins, currently far from a possible understanding with the space that brings together the Broad Front. And this Friday it was Moviment Sumar who spoke out. In a statement, with which it announced that Verónica Barbero will be its candidate within the confluence, the organization has demanded "discretion" and "generosity" to build a "project where everyone fits". The goal, it stresses, is to have a "sufficient majority" to "re-edit the coalition government" and "take it further". And although it does not refer directly to Podemos, it throws a dart at the purple party, which has decided to keep the primaries open to the entire space to configure the candidacy: "We will not comment on methods or candidates or anything other than reaching agreements and presenting to our country a Broad Front proposal", they say from Sumar.