PSC and Frente Amplio agree in Catalonia to counteract the agreement between PP and Vox in the Senate

After several days of blocked negotiations, the PSC and Comuns have reached an agreement for the Senate ahead of the November 29 elections. The leading party in Catalonia of the Frente Amplio will withdraw its candidacies for the Upper House in the constituencies of Girona, Lleida and Tarragona, while the socialists have committed to appointing an autonomous senator at the proposal of Ada Colau's party.

"It is a democratic responsibility of the progressive and Catalan forces to block the path to the right and the extreme right in the Senate," maintain both parties in reference to the agreement between the PP and Vox announced yesterday, which contemplates that the popular parties will not nominate any candidate in Girona and Tarragona, for the benefit of the formation chaired by Santiago Abascal.

According to the PSC and Comuns, this pact "has the objective of controlling the Chamber so that it becomes an instrument of democratic regression and control of State institutions." The regional leaders of the PSOE and the Frente Amplio consider that "it is especially serious that the agreement hands over the leadership of Catalan constituencies to Vox, the extreme right that wants to end the institutions, rights, freedoms and self-government of Catalonia.