PSOE pushes 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 reflect 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," Minister Óscar Puente stated this morning in statements to the SER. And aware that the hypothetical socialist victory – which only the CIS grants – would not guarantee by any means continuity in government, he has called for the unity of the parties to the left of the PSOE, in the midst of negotiations surrounding the Broad Front: "The way 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," referring to the PP and the controversy surrounding Isabel Díaz Ayuso's properties.

The popular spokesperson in Congress, Ester Muñoz, was quick to respond to him via X: "Parliament looks like the street. Who it doesn't look like is you." "The one who does not represent the street is Pedro Sánchez," reacted the general secretary of the popular party, Miguel Tellado, in a press conference. 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 the "clamor" of the street demands it. 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 as long as Podemos joins, currently far from a possible understanding with the space that brings together the Broad Front. And this Friday it was Movimiento Sumar that spoke out. In a statement, with which it announced that Verónica Barbero will be its candidate within the confluence, the organization demanded "discretion" and "generosity" to build a "project where everyone fits."

The goal, he stresses, is to have a "sufficient majority" to "re-edit the coalition government" and "take it further". And although he does not refer directly to Podemos, he 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 opine on methods or candidates or on anything other than reaching agreements and presenting our country with a Broad Front proposal", they say from Sumar.