The political parties have until this Friday night to register coalitions for the European elections on May 9the only elections that are governed by the system of single and state constituencynot by provinces or communities, which favors the formation of alliances between territorial or minority parties.
After publishing the decree convening the European Parliament electionsthe calendar of the Central Electoral Board establishes that at midnight this Friday, April 26, the deadline to register coalitions will end.
In his writing, the coalitions They must detail their name, acronym, logo and territorial scope, because although the constituency is state, different names can be adopted depending on the autonomous community. The JEC must also be informed of the governing bodies of the coalition and the representation of each of the member parties.
Twelve coalitions in 2019
Five years ago Twelve coalitions registeredbut only Unidas Podemos and the alliances woven by nationalist and independence groups gained a seat in Strasbourg.
The political landscape has changed since then. In 2019 United We Can It basically brought together Podemos, Izquierda Unida and En Comú, while Compromís, Més and Chunta Aragonesista were in another coalition, Compromiso por Europa, which did not achieve representation.
For the June elections, Sumar seeks to bring together all these formations except Podemoswhich will go separately with former minister Irene Montero at the helm, and the Balearic Islands of Més, who have opted for the Esquerra Republicana coalition.
In 2019 together He formed the Lliures coalition together with the PDeCAT and the old Convergencia, which are now no longer active. So their candidate and his logo was Carles Puigdemontbut this year the former Catalan president is competing in the Catalan elections in May and in the European event his head of the list will be his former advisor Toni Comin.
For its part, Left handed will reissue the “Now Republics” coalition with Bildu and the BNG, which this year will be joined by Més, Sumar’s Balearic partner.
On his side, the PNV and Canarian Coalition will compete together again in the European ones. In 2019 they carried the Coalition for a Solidarity Europe brand together with Proposta per les Illes (PI) of the Balearic Islands and Compromiso por Galicia.
The emptied Spain and the new parties
For these European elections there are minority parties who have announced their intention to run and who could end up forming coalitions with extra-parliamentary formations.
This week it was announced that the local parties of the call Spain Emptied They were going to present a coalition for the June elections under the brand Exist and with the former deputy Tomas Guitarte as head of the list.
They planned to add to the project, in addition to Aragon Existslocal formations such as Soria Now and Cuenca Nowindependent parties of UCIN, and the extra-parliamentary formation For a Fairer World (PUM+J), common in elections of different types.
Citizens, which has lost all its leaders in the last three years, was already talking to UCIN, the confluence of local independent parties, which has preferred to go with Exist. In these elections, new parties want to debut where ‘orange’ leaders have ended up, such as Spanish Left, which will have MEP Soraya Rodríguez on its list, and the new party Believeby Edmundo Bal.