The Frente Amplio settles the doubts: it will present lists throughout Spain except in Teruel "as the ballot for the right to housing"

The Frente Amplio will present electoral lists to Congress throughout Spain with the ambition of being "the ballot for the right to housing" and rules out the possibility of withdrawing from the constituencies that have the fewest deputies. The only exception is the well-known case of Teruel, where the decision was made unilaterally by the Chunta Aragonesista and not by the alliance led by Ada Colau.

Sources from the left-wing coalition confirm to EL MUNDO that there will be Broad Front candidates in 51 of the 52 constituencies, putting to rest the doubts that had been generated about a withdrawal of lists to favor the concentration of the vote in the PSOE where it had no fewer options and seats could be taken from the right.

This begins and ends only with the exception of Teruel. In the rest of the country it is ruled out and, therefore, there will be candidates from the Frente Amplio in two ways. Either within a ballot headed by this electoral brand or within the other leftist alliances that operate in the Valencian Community, the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands and Aragon, and that have different names, but in which those from Colau are one of their parts.

The Broad Front campaign spokesman, Pablo Bustinduy, has guaranteed that the candidacy "will be the option throughout the country to defend the interest of the working classes." Furthermore, he has proclaimed that the alliance will be the "surprise and decisive factor" in these elections, because it faces the problems of housing and salaries and because it defends pensions.

"We are going to be the only candidate that clearly defends the well-being and rights of the working classes against those who come with a thirst for revenge to privatize it and distribute it among four," he said in statements to journalists in Madrid.

This Monday the deadline to present the electoral lists to the Electoral Board ends at 11:59 p.m. and throughout the afternoon the heads of the Frente Amplio list will be known.

As for Teruel, the case generated a lot of controversy within this political space because the decision not to present a list to Congress was made unilaterally by the Chunta Aragonesista, which is the party that leads the Broad Front candidacy in Aragon.

IU rebelled against this position and even considered running alone in the elections with its brand. However, in the end it has not been able to do so, because legally it did not have that capacity, since the organization is part of a coalition called Chunta-Frente Amplio Aragón that operates the entire autonomous community.

Podemos enters the Balearic alliance

As for Podemos, the news is in the agreement reached this weekend in the Balearic Islands. The purple party did not enter the left coalition 10 days ago (Ara Més-Front Ampli), however, it does so now through the back door. It will not present an alternative list in exchange for placing its leader in the islands, Lucía Muñoz, as number three, who becomes independent.

With this pact, there will finally be three lists in which Podemos shares a candidacy with the Frente Amplio: Valencian Community (led by Compromís), the Canary Islands and now the Balearic Islands.

A decisive factor for this turn is that the Ara Més-Front Ampli candidacy will be led by Carmen Gomila, a person who comes from the political branch of ERC in the Balearic Islands. And since Podemos has an agreement with the republicans in Catalonia and indirectly in the Valencian Community, it seemed contradictory.