Too wide a front

With one week left until the registration of the electoral lists, the large space located to the left of the PSOE has not yet agreed on the formula to present itself in the elections in a united manner, nor is it at all clear who will be its leader. After eight long months of negotiations between all the parties involved, the decisive moment has been reached without anything being clear. Only the name of the candidacy, Frente Amplio, which would bring together Movimiento Sumar, Izquierda Unida, Comunes and Más Madrid, is the only significant advance achieved.

All the other parties, including Podemos and the regionalist formations, are going their own way. Some, like Chunta Aragonesista, have opened the door to being part of Frente Amplio, but others, like Compromís or Adelante Andalucía, have already said that they will not join the coalition.

The designation of the head of the list is the best example of this disconcerting climate. Más Madrid took a step forward three days ago and proposed that the former mayor of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau, lead the Frente Amplio candidacy, without consulting the other parties. The news caught the Comuns by surprise and IU and Sumar did not like it at all.

And yesterday it was Colau herself who spoke out in statements to La Sexta, leaving the door open for Republican Gabriel Rufián to lead the candidacy. “I am willing to help you if you decide not only to be a candidate for Catalonia, but also to exercise that leadership to unify the left at the state level.” Rufián, in theory, is the candidate of another party, Esquerra, which is counting on him to lead its own candidacy.

Pablo Iglesias and Yolanda Díaz, the two politicians who led this political space in the two previous general elections, ended up stepping aside, marked by internal disagreements. It is difficult to understand how this left is incapable of putting aside its internal problems and presenting a common project.

Time is running out and the general feeling is that personalisms can take away the project. There is an agonizing week left.