El PSOE y Frente Amplio acuerdan presentarse al Senado en una lista única

The Socialists' Party (PSOE) and the Broad Front (Frente Amplio) have announced plans to run jointly for seats in the Spanish Senate in the general elections on November 29. Both parties have labeled this agreement as "historic," announced shortly after midnight when the deadline for declaring coalitions to run in the elections had passed.

The candidates of both formations will appear on a single ballot paper under the name "Senate of Progress," according to the PSOE, they have implemented this agreement following the "cry of the streets" and have turned these demands into a nationwide agreement with various sensitivities that go beyond the sum of individual positions.

The Broad Front explains that the lists will translate into joint candidacies in 47 electoral districts backed by the PSOE, IU, Movement Sumar, More Madrid, and Ceuta Ya, in a coalition that also includes the agreement between the socialists with Más and IU and Sumar in the Balearic Islands and the one of progressive forces in La Gomera.

The pact was announced alongside the failure of negotiations between the Broad Front and Podemos to run jointly in the Congress in the 29N elections, except in Canaries and the Valencian Community, where there is a coalition of left-leaning forces. The socialists and Broad Front officials seek to maximize the vote of the left in the upper house and thus threaten the absolute majority that the People's Party (PP) currently holds in the Senate.

The PSOE asserts that this is a "democratic urgency" to restore the Senate's true purpose and remove it from the influence of the PP and Vox, highlighting that their effort, responsibility, and generosity position them closer to expanding the progressive majority. PSOE Secretary of Organization Rebeca Torró states in a video that this is a "historic step at the political moment and in the demands of millions of citizens who want Spain to continue looking forward."

The Broad Front's communication celebrates the pact for this historic shared candidacy and explains that it emerged from the impulse and collaboration with civil society, and that the signatories must now be consistent with this effort as they have demonstrated through dialogue and responsibility. The formation of a "progressive majority" in the upper house, as well as the defense of democracy and advancing in rights, freedoms, equality, and social justice, are the declared objectives of the leftist forces explaining their agreement, stating that it is not only about hindering the right and the ultra-right to end the opportunistic and partisan use of the Senate, but also about fulfilling the democratic urgency of restoring this Chamber's role as assigned by the Constitution.