Compromís, Chunta Aragonesista and Més per Mallorca stayed away from Sumar's meeting. The parties will negotiate separately while waiting for guarantees on confederal rules.
Compromís, Chunta Aragonesista and Més per Mallorca did not attend Sumar's Monday summit. Ministers and leaders from Sumar's political space met without the three territorial parliamentary allies. The parties had been invited.
The absence came at a key stage for the new electoral project after the call for early elections. It does not close the door on cooperation. The three organisations plan to negotiate separately with state-level parties before deciding how they will take part in the next electoral configuration.
Verdes Equo was also mentioned in reports as an ally invited to the expanded format of the Monday meeting, alongside Compromís, Chunta Aragonesista and Més per Mallorca.
The immediate dispute concerns the future alliance's structure. The territorial parties want to see how the candidacy built around Movimiento Sumar, Más Madrid, Comuns and IU will take shape. They also want rules that clearly protect confederal relations.
Their own organisations must keep a defined role. They do not want to disappear into a centralised campaign.
The practical proposal is straightforward. In their constituencies, the parties want broad coalitions or unity lists led by groups with an established presence in those territories. Local partners would keep the leading role where they have stronger political roots. They would still take part in a wider electoral project.
The issue is narrower. The summit showed a disagreement over how the alliance should operate, not a final rejection of the candidacy. Reports have linked the rushed timetable to uncertainty over possible early elections and to the political crisis that followed the failure in Congress of two housing decrees.
Més per Mallorca has specifically sought bilateral talks and wants to understand how the new Frente Amplio will be organised before deciding whether to join broader territorial alliances. The dispute is therefore about the terms of participation, not a formal withdrawal from cooperation.
On Sunday, the four parties represented in the Executive agreed to launch the candidacy officially on 17 October. The date was chosen for the public presentation of the candidate and the Frente Amplio project. The event must take place before the deadline for registering electoral coalitions, according to reports from La Vanguardia and other Spanish media.
The stated goal is an open joint list. Podemos could also join. The plan would resemble the coalition assembled for the 2023 elections.
The clock is running. State-level organisations have set the public launch, but Compromís, Chunta Aragonesista and Més per Mallorca are still waiting to see the alliance's rules and territorial guarantees. Europa Press reports that the three parties prefer bilateral talks at this stage. Each organisation can then negotiate its own electoral arrangement instead of accepting a finished framework.
The proposed unity project has an agreed core, but it does not yet include all the partners it hopes to bring together. The earlier alliance report already described the need to settle the structure and Podemos' role. The latest development adds the territorial partners' demand for confederal safeguards.
Until those conditions are defined, the project remains open to its allies in principle. Its organisation is still incomplete. The empty seats at Monday's summit made that clear.
