Podemos and Frente Amplio will share a ticket only in the Canary Islands and the Comunitat Valenciana. Elsewhere, voters will face separate lists or regional alliances, with three competing options on the left in Andalusia.
With 60 seats at stake, Andalusia will elect more MPs than any other region. Voters will have three alternatives to the left of the PSOE. Frente Amplio Por Andalucía will include Izquierda Unida de Andalucía and Movimiento Sumar. Iniciativa del Pueblo Andaluz and Verdes Equo will also join the alliance. Podemos Andalucía will run separately, as will Adelante Andalucía, which has announced candidates in all eight provinces.
The regional splits followed the collapse of talks on a single nationwide Congress list. Frente Amplio brings together Movimiento Sumar and Comuns, alongside Izquierda Unida and Más Madrid. It also includes territorial partners. Negotiations with Podemos then moved region by region, with disagreements over candidate positions and Podemos’s role on a shared ticket. Politico reported that Podemos was polling at around 3% nationally. A joint list could increase the left’s overall share of seats, while separate candidacies risk losing representation under the allocation of seats in provincial constituencies. The parties agreed to run together only in the Canary Islands and the Comunitat Valenciana. Final names and full candidate lists will be confirmed when they are filed with the electoral authorities.
In the Canary Islands, the joint ticket will be called Unidad del Pueblo Canario, or UPC. It will include Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista and Izquierda Unida. Podemos and Movimiento Sumar will also join the alliance. The four parties announced the agreement in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 15 October, ahead of the 29 November election. It was the first publicly announced territorial agreement between Podemos and parties in Frente Amplio after the national talks failed. The parties called it historic and presented it as a possible model for regional negotiations.
Drago Canarias will field its own list. The islands elect 15 MPs, and Sumar won one seat there in 2023.
The Comunitat Valenciana alliance will be called Compromís-Front Valencià. It brings together Compromís and Podemos, as well as Esquerra Unida del País Valencià, or EUPV, and Esquerra Republicana del País Valencià, or ERPV. The agreement was reached by 17 October, after the parties settled disagreements over the distribution of list positions. It builds on existing regional structures. Podemos will lead the Alicante list. In Valencia, Àgueda Micó and Alberto Ibáñez will take the first two places, followed by EUPV in third. The region elects 33 MPs; Sumar won four in 2023.
Catalonia has a different arrangement. Podemos will support Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, or ERC, and provide candidates for its lists, though their positions have not been set out. Frente Amplio will run separately. Former Barcelona mayor Ada Colau will lead its list in the city, while Comuns remains part of Frente Amplio. ERC and Sumar each won seven seats in 2023. The two left-wing forces did not reach an agreement to run together in Catalonia.
In Madrid, Irene Montero will head Podemos’s list. Regional Más Madrid MP Emilio Delgado will lead Frente Amplio’s. Frente Amplio offered Montero a place among the top two or three candidates, but the parties failed to agree. Madrid elects 37 MPs; Sumar won six in 2023.
Several regions have local alliances that exclude Podemos. In Aragón, Chunta Aragonesista and Izquierda Unida will run as Chunta Aragonesista-Frente Amplio Aragón. Movimiento Sumar will join them, along with Partido Verde and Recortes Cero. Podemos will stand separately. Coalición Existe, formed by Teruel Existe and Aragón Existe, will also contest the election. In the Balearic Islands, Ara MÉS and Movimiento Sumar will run with Izquierda Unida under the name Ara MÉS-Front Ampli. Podemos will also run alone.
Frente Amplio includes Somos Asturies in Asturias, while Podemos will contest the election separately. In Murcia, IU-Verdes will join Frente Amplio after failing to restore its previous alliance with Podemos. In Extremadura, the parties will not carry over the Unidas por Extremadura arrangement from the regional assembly. Both will field separate lists.
In Galicia, the Bloque Nacionalista Galego will run on its own. Frente Amplio and Podemos will each field separate lists. Galicia elects 23 MPs; Sumar won two in 2023. Navarra will also have separate lists from Frente Amplio and Podemos. Frente Amplio includes Batzarre. EH Bildu and Geroa Bai will field their own candidacies. Navarra elects five MPs.
Separate Podemos and Frente Amplio lists are also expected in Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla y León. The Partido Regionalista de Cantabria will not contest the general election. In Euskadi, EH Bildu will field its own list in each of the three provinces, while Podemos and Frente Amplio remain divided. La Rioja will also have separate lists from the two forces. By 17 October, the Canary Islands and the Comunitat Valenciana were the only regions with agreed joint lists involving Podemos and Frente Amplio.
Gabriel Rufián of ERC called for an end to the public dispute over a unity deal. Sumar spokesperson Verónica Barbero said there had been no negotiation with Podemos, while Frente Amplio had offered to talk. The parties must now register their full candidate lists and the order of candidates before the 29 November election.
