{"id":873583,"date":"2026-04-05T11:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/873583\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T11:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:22:16","slug":"spains-left-wing-parties-strike-deal-ahead-of-andalucia-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/873583\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain’s left-wing parties strike deal ahead of Andalucia election"},"content":{"rendered":"

THREE of Spain\u2019s main left-wing parties have struck a last-minute deal to back a single candidate at next month\u2019s Andalucian elections in an effort to oust the incumbent Partido Popular (PP) government.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Podemos, Sumar and Izquierda Unida (IU) will run under the banner Por Andalucia ahead of the vote on May 17, called by regional president Juanma Moreno two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

The agreement between the parties was officially unveiled after tense last-ditch negotiations on Good Friday \u2013 the final day to register coalitions.<\/p>\n

Under the terms of the deal, the parties will unite behind IU federal coordinator and Communist Party member Antonio Maillo as the candidate for president, attempting to overturn the overall majority secured by Moreno and the PP in 2022.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Juanma Moreno dissolves parliament and announces Junta election date \u2013 this is when Andalucia will head to the polls<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Communist Party member Antonio Maillo will be Por Andalucia\u2019s candidate for regional president. Credit: Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n

The IU will top candidate lists in Sevilla, Malaga, Cordoba, Granada and Almeria, Sumar will head Cadiz, the minor Iniciativa del Pueblo Andaluz will lead Huelva and Podemos will top the list in Jaen.<\/p>\n

However, many Podemos supporters have been left aggrieved by the allocation of candidates under the Por Andalucia banner.<\/p>\n

\u201cPodemos has decided to accept the coalition agreement, despite believing it does not reflect our political weight, because today it is more important to defend public healthcare and housing than any party calculation,\u201d party leader Ione Belarra said in a statement.<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cWe are taking this decision out of political responsibility and with the conviction of continuing to build a strong and courageous left-wing alternative to challenge the right and defend the rights of the people of Andalucia.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE: WATCH: Junta president heckled at Three Kings parade in Sevilla as crowd jeer and chant for better public healthcare<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"ActRegional president Juanma Moreno called the snap election last month in an effort to beef up his existing majority in parliament. Credit: Cordon Press<\/p>\n

In the 2022 elections, Por Andalucia secured 7.7 per cent of the vote and five seats in the regional parliament.<\/p>\n

The PP are widely expected to maintain their existing majority, with recent polls suggesting they will receive around 43 per cent of the vote share \u2013 the same figure they received four years ago.<\/p>\n

That is likely to be well ahead of the PSOE with 22 per cent and far-right Vox with 16 per cent.<\/p>\n

Click here to read more Spain News<\/a> from The Olive Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THREE of Spain\u2019s main left-wing parties have struck a last-minute deal to back a single candidate at next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5312],"tags":[125335,98416,2000,299,207518,18104,8626,247898,159100,247899,169316,169315,104,194169,18106],"class_list":["post-873583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-communism","tag-communist-party","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-juanma-moreno","tag-news-spain","tag-newspaper","tag-partido-popular","tag-podemos","tag-por-andalucia","tag-pp","tag-psoe","tag-spain","tag-spain-politics","tag-the-olive-press"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116351844267072284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}