Frente Amplio tries to forget the conflict with Podemos: "The time has begun to unite people"

Frente Amplio has presented this Saturday its new brand and its project for the general elections of November 29 in an event held in Madrid in which the great visible faces of the alliance have been present and in which they have tried to turn the page on the conflict with Podemos that has turned into a disunity that could take its toll at the polls: "The time to unite the parties is over, the time to unite the people has begun," said the head of the Madrid list of the coalition, Emilio Delgado, before a packed auditorium in the Manzanares Linear Park.

The event included the participation of the candidate for the Presidency of the Frente Amplio Government, Ada Colau; Emilio Delgado himself; the ministers of Social Rights and Culture, Pablo Bustinduy and Ernest Urtasun, respectively; the parliamentary spokesperson and co-coordinator of Movimiento Sumar, Verónica Martínez; the coordinator of IU in Andalusia, Toni Valero; the representative of Más Madrid Tesh Sidi; and the president of Chunta Aragonesista; Jorge Pueyo.

The leaders have not ignored the crisis that has been unleashed on the left after this Friday Frente Amplio and Podemos failed to reach an agreement to run together in the elections except for those constituencies belonging to the Valencian Community (three) and the Canary Islands (two). "If someone does not want to sit at the table, you cannot force them, but I can guarantee you that the 15 organizations [that make up Frente Amplio] that are here today will not give up, because we will continue to agree and dialogue to build consensus," Ada Colau expressed in a veiled message to the purples, who this Friday accused the coalition of not wanting to reach any type of agreement.

The Frente Amplio candidate said she was aware that "there are disappointed people" and apologized for not achieving total unity, but explained that "all the people who were working to promote the agreement have given everything until the last minute." "Everything was offered, with extreme generosity," the former mayor of Barcelona explained.

In a long-awaited speech from the progressive space, Colau has made a special mention of the housing crisis and "stopping fascism" that, he says, PP and Vox represent. "There is no age at which housing does not pose a problem. PP and Vox are not blind, but they fix their gaze on their corrupt friends, on the benefits, they only see margins, the price at which each apartment can be resold... But we are here, we choose to see each other and we know that we are the social majority," he stated.

The leader of Frente Amplio has also charged against the PSOE, whom she has accused of "stopping" most of the social advances that the alternative left has proposed, especially those measures aimed at solving the housing problem. For Colau, the socialists have shown "cowardice" in these eight years of government and only the pressure of their space has been able to make them give in on certain issues. He has also expressed that the PSOE "is going to once again use the fear of fascism as the only argument in its campaign." "But that alone is not enough. Fear alone is not enough to stop the extreme right. We must combat social unrest," he noted.