The left is negotiating against time in Aragon an agreement to avoid there being up to three alternative candidates to the PSOE in the regional elections on February 8. The Chunta Aragonesista (CHA) has distanced itself in recent hours and announced that its deputy in Congress, Jorge Pueyo, would be head of the list for Zaragoza. Podemos and Izquierda Unida are still in talks to try to present a joint candidacy, but the agreement is blocked and the deadline to register a coalition expires this evening. Also in the equation is the Movimiento Sumar, the party coordinated by Lara Hernández, of which the Ione Belarra party wants nothing to do, and which is barely present in the territory, as happened in Extremadura.
This morning, the CHA confirmed that it will ultimately not be necessary to organize primaries to elect its candidates, each having opted “for different positions”, as justified by its general secretary, Isabel Lasobras Pina, this Friday during a press conference. Pueyo will be ratified during an extraordinary party committee scheduled for January 3.
Lasobras ruled out the possibilities in agreement with the rest of the parties. “If the unity of the left is requested, it is requested under all conditions, not with bilateral meetings,” he said during an intervention in which he indicated that the interest of his party was that the negotiations “take place in Aragon, far from the noise and the game of thrones that exist in Madrid”. The leader of the CHA assured that the organization is still open to meetings, but of four, and no longer bilateral, which makes the agreement unviable.
Meanwhile, the federal leader of the IU Amanda Meyer denounced on social networks an alleged interference by the Podemos leadership in negotiations with her party in Aragon. “If IU and Podemos understand each other in Aragon, meet, negotiate and agree to participate together in the 8F, with a left-wing government program that confronts the PP and Vox in Aragon, it is respected. The alternative is built from the territory, Madrid’s vetoes are irresponsible,” he said in a message.
Pueyo’s departure from Congress will change the balance of Sumar’s parliamentary group. The second on the list for Zaragoza belongs to the party created by Yolanda Díaz in 2023, which would strengthen its strength in the group with 11 deputies.
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