The PP refuses to run for Senate in Gipuzkoa and Vox will limit candidacies in Álava and Navarre

PP and Vox announced on Monday a "consensus agreement" to coordinate their candidacies for the Senate ahead of the Spanish general election on November 29, which provides for the PP to renounce nominations in Gipuzkoa, Girona and Tarragona, while Vox will not submit nominations in Las Palmas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Cadiz, Valencia, Castellón and Balearic Islands.

The agreement has been announced as the deadline for nominations for the election expires at midnight. Both parties have explained that they aim to "maintain the centre-right majority" in the Senate.

An independent candidate proposed by Vox

The PP's campaign manager, Miguel Tellado, has explained that Vox will not nominate candidates in six provinces, but instead the PP will include on its lists a candidate proposed by Vox as independent.

On the other hand, Vox will only nominate one candidate for the Senate in 14 other provinces: Álava, Navarra, Seville, Huelva, Asturias, Badajoz, Cáceres, Huesca, Zaragoza, Alicante, Granada, Cuenca, Pontevedra and Jaén, while in 23 other provinces he will nominate candidates as usual.

Abascal's party shall not nominate candidates in the constituencies of the Canary Islands or the Balearic Islands, where the members of the Senate are elected by island.

Goal: to maintain a majority in the Senate

Vox's Secretary General, Ignacio Garriga, has been the first to publicize the agreement through a video sent to the media, which has described his party's refusal to nominate candidates as a "gesture" to prevent Pedro Sánchez from "taking over" the Senate with the help of "extremists and radicals."

Garriga has argued that, while acknowledging that the PP and Vox are "very different parties" and have different speeches, both parties agree on the need to remove the PSOE from the institutions.

Five minutes later, Tellado presented the agreement at the PP headquarters in Madrid. According to the representative of the Partido Popular, the agreement between the two parties is the result of "generosity, open-mindedness and sense of state".

"The agreement between the two parties is intended to support the centre-right majority in the Senate in the face of attempts to remove that majority from the far left," he said.

The PP refuses to compete in Gipuzkoa, Girona and Tarragona

Tellado has explained that the results of the last elections have led the People's Party not to run for the Senate in these three provinces, according to which the PP has not won a seat from Gipuzkoa to the Senate for 26 years and in democratic times has never won representation in the Senate from Girona and Tarragona.

The pact is made by the PP and Vox in response to the agreement between the PSOE and the Frente Amplio, two parties that will present their candidacies for the Senate in coalition, an alliance between left-wing parties that, according to Tellado, will not prevent the left from losing its majority in Congress, nor will it achieve a majority in the Senate.