The PP and Vox agree to run together in the Balearic Islands for the Senate

PalmaLast-minute agreement between the PP and Vox to run together for the Senate in 23 provinces with the goal of maximizing results. Among them, the Balearic Islands, where Vox has already announced it will not run.

"In the face of Pedro Sánchez's attempt to assault the institutions, in this case the Senate, and hand-in-hand with extremists and radicals, Vox has called for responsibility and high-mindedness," the party explains in the statement. "We will make a gesture that consists of withdrawing from six constituencies and presenting only one candidate for the Senate in fourteen," it continues.

Thus, the party has pointed out that "Vox will not present its own candidacy" in the provinces of Las Palmas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Cadiz, Valencia, Castellon, and the Balearic Islands. Likewise, it will present a single candidate in 14 other provinces of the State, while in the remaining 23 they will run as normal. The PP, on the other hand, will withdraw its candidacy in three provinces where it has never obtained representation: Tarragona, Girona, and Gipuzkoa.

"The PP and Vox are very different political formations, with very different discourses, but it is no secret that we coincide in the need to expel Sánchez's criminal organization from the institutions," adds the document addressed to the media.

The news arrived a few minutes after the appearance of the spokeswomen for the PP and Vox parliamentary groups in the Islands, Marga Duran and Manuela Cañadas, who assured that they knew nothing about it and that everything would depend on the negotiations that took place in Madrid between Génova and Bambú. This Monday, the deadline for submitting the lists for the Senate to the Central Electoral Board (JEC) ends.

Although the PP spokesperson, Sebastià Sagreras, said days ago that a joint list of the PSIB with Ara Més-Broad Front for the Senate evidenced the "weakness" of the left, he will now be the head of the list for the right-wing agreement to run for the Senate.

On behalf of Vox, Cañadas has considered that "Vox will be up to the task, and so far there is no further news". "I do not know how it will end, negotiations will be taking place in Madrid until the last minute", he assured: "Whatever they decide will be the best to preserve democracy and so that the left, with its union, does not try to steal the Senate".

The PSIB: "We are working to continue with a progressive country"

The deputy secretary-general of the PSIB and socialist candidate for the presidency of the Government, Rosario Sánchez, has defended the left-wing pact. "We are working to continue with a progressive country that advances, one that combines economic growth and progress in rights," she defended: "We do so when we govern and when we run in elections." In this sense, she claimed the victory of Lula da Silva in Brazil. "We do not want to return to fascist Spain, and that is why electoral coalitions are important," she concluded.