Más Madrid on Sunday proposed a unity list for the 29 November Congress election in the Province of Madrid . According to the party, the list should be led by Emilio Delgado with Mónica García in second place; she is Spain’s health minister and a leading figure in Más Madrid. The proposal was published through the party’s official channels and framed as an offer to the other forces in the left-wing alliance Frente Amplio formulated.
The proposed joint list is explicitly also aimed at Izquierda Unida and Movimiento Sumar. Más Madrid has made the inclusion of Podemos conditional on the party joining the Frente Amplio. Podemos has recently repeatedly called for open primaries to determine the order of candidates among the participating parties. No final agreement on procedures or list order has yet been reached.
With this move, Más Madrid is signalling both its ambitions and its willingness to negotiate: the party, which has the largest opposition group in the Comunidad de Madrid, is calling for early agreement on the strategically important Province of Madrid. For Izquierda Unida and Movimiento Sumar, the proposal offers the possibility of standing on an agreed list in one of the constituencies that will be decisive in the election. For Podemos, the question of joining the Frente Amplio remains the key issue determining future cooperation.
People close to the parties involved say talks on joint lists, regional allocations and possible cross-party selection procedures are continuing. All the candidacies mentioned have yet to receive official confirmation from every party involved. But one thing is clear: time is running out. The closer 29 November gets, the greater the organisational and political cost of uncertainty within the left-wing camp.
Más Madrid’s proposal is thus both an attempt to avoid fragmentation and to organise the campaign in the capital region at an early stage. Whether it leads to a swift agreement depends on the partners’ willingness to settle on a common position – and on whether Podemos accepts the condition of joining the Frente Amplio.
Editor: Phillipe Schmidt-Araguin (Article created with AI assistance).