This agreement between CHA, Izquierda Unida, Movimiento Sumar, the Green Party and Recortes Cero within Frente Amplio will run in all three provinces. No names have been announced yet, although, as Jorge Pueyo explained, the lead candidate in Zaragoza will be a member of Chunta—where they are most likely to win at least one seat—while the candidates for Huesca and Teruel have yet to be decided.
According to Pueyo, the coalition aims to “draw a line in the sand” against the far right and “renew a progressive government that can change things.” Recalling José Antonio Labordeta, the CHA president called for Aragón’s demands to be taken to Madrid: “To stop having the worst roads in the whole country and being a land of neglect and sacrifice, always coming last when resources are distributed.”
ADA COLAU: “UNITY IS POSSIBLE”
Former Barcelona mayor Ada Colau said she was “especially delighted that we can be here in Aragón celebrating that unity is possible,” recalling that she is the granddaughter of shepherds from Ribagorza. She noted that this agreement adds to the “good news” coming from the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands.
“The doors are open and we are ready to discuss everything, because what we cannot allow is to fail citizens at this historic moment,” Colau said. She warned that what is at stake is “whether fascism can win and we could move back decades in our country” on pensions, healthcare, education and housing.
For his part, Emilio Delgado said the agreement was led by “those who refuse to resign themselves to being chroniclers of reality and those who seek to transform this country, broaden it and organize hope.” The Más Madrid member acknowledged that “this country cannot remain as it is” because there are many injustices, but it must not “go back 50 years, as some are seeking.”
Marta Abengochea, IU’s spokesperson in Aragón, explained that the party had made this commitment out of a sense of responsibility and with the utmost generosity. Therefore, “the agreement reached leaves out very important aspects of our political culture that we have sacrificed in the interests of the unity demanded by citizens and this historic moment.”
Abengochea hopes the agreement will help strengthen an alternative capable of stopping the advance of the right in Congress and continuing to expand rights for the social majority, and that it can be implemented in the next municipal elections.
