Podemos members have endorsed the party’s attempt to enter Por Andalucía at the last minute to appear in coalition at . In an express 24-hour consultation called by the party that ended at 5:00 p.m. this Wednesday, the purple bases have said yes to negotiating the possible entry into the alliance already shared by the United Left (IU), the Sumar Movement, the Andalusian People’s Initiative and the Green Party (the former Equo). The yes has won with 81.4%.
The question was the following: “Are you satisfied that Podemos Andalucía seeks the necessary agreements to achieve the broadest and most unitary candidacy possible for the next Andalusian elections?” The favorable result for the coalition does not imply the automatic integration of Podemos into it. . Once again, negotiations are taking place at the limit. The deadline to register coalitions for the elections ends at midnight from Friday to Saturday.
A last minute twist
For much of the Andalusian legislature, the state leadership of Podemos has maintained a cold attitude towards the Por Andalucía coalition, which has a parliamentary group where three of the five deputies are its own. In May 2025, while the leadership of Podemos in Andalusia was leaning towards reissuing the agreement, the state-run company established as a position on a possible confluence that its task was to oppose the “Government of War”, a message that marked distances with IU and Movimiento Sumar, members of that government. In summer, the general secretary of Podemos in Andalusia, Raquel Martínez, and other members of the regional leadership signed a manifesto in favor of the unity of the left. But the state leadership stated that this was nothing new. The parliamentarian for Córdoba José Manuel Gómez, a supporter of unity, announced in September that he will not compete in the next elections, an announcement that came after not seeing his commitment to confluence supported by the state leadership.
After remaining on the sidelines of the entire process to repeat the coalition, which began in October 2024, Podemos has changed its position at the last minute by asking since Sunday for a negotiation with IU to join the candidacy, accepting Movimiento Sumar as a partner and — they say — without preconditions.
The change comes after Podemos was left without representation in , with 0.94% of the vote, and in , with 0.74%. The problem is time. The deadline to present coalitions ends this Friday at midnight. Despite this tight schedule, Podemos has found time to carry out this consultation. And its result supports the turn of the state leadership.
A key meeting this Thursday
The yes of those registered does not guarantee integration in Por Andalucía, which still needs to receive the green light from the coalition. The key date is this Thursday, one day before the end of the deadline to register alliances, when Por Andalucía has called a meeting of its party table to finalize its definition.
IU, Movimiento Sumar, the Andalusian People’s Initiative and the Green Party have been called to this meeting, all of them forces that have an agreement to enter the coalition, but also Podemos, which until now has remained outside, without joining the different stages for the reissue of the pact. The Por Andalucía maneuver constitutes a reaction to the last-minute turn by Podemos, which since Sunday has been offering to negotiate to enter the coalition, for which the leader of IU will be a candidate.
The fit in the lists
A crucial issue on the table will be the composition of the lists. IU, Movimiento Sumar and the Andalusian People’s Initiative have already agreed on the distribution of the number one: IU, the dominant force with more than 5,000 militants – according to the organization – and 62 mayors, will lead, if there are no last-minute changes, six provinces (Seville, Málaga, Córdoba, Granada, Jaén and Almería); Sumar Movement will lead one (Cádiz); and the Andalusian People’s Initiative, another (Huelva), according to coalition sources.
Currently, Por Andalucía has five seats, one for each of these provinces: Seville, Málaga, Cádiz, Córdoba and Granada. Of the five parliamentarians, three are from Podemos. It will be key in the negotiation to see under what conditions the purple party now wants to enter the lists and what response it receives.
What all the sources consulted in Por Andalucía agree on is that, when the negotiation was so extreme that Podemos was formally left out of the registry and its candidates had to enter the lists as independents. That is why, if the purple party does not enter the coalition, it could be left out of debates on public television, which would further darken its prospects.
