Where others see an opportunity, España Vaciada has seen a downside. The platform presents lists in fifteen provinces for the regional and municipal elections of 28-M, but there could have been many more. The collapse or decline of political formations with a strong presence in previous elections has created a market of available politicians in transit, eager to land new candidates with potential and who have courted members of the Empty Spain platform to present lists in many more places. As of today, with the term still open to form lists, the platform presents lists for the autonomous ones in Asturias, in La Rioja, in Castilla-La Mancha and in Aragón, and in the local ones it has built candidacies for the provinces of León, Palencia, Burgos, Salamanca, Valladolid, Almería, Jaén and Guadalajara.
The setback of other parties, such as Ciudadanos or the Aragonese Regionalist Party, instead of serving as an alibi to broaden the presence of the platform, has pushed back those responsible for the project, which remains faithful to its declared purpose of building itself as a long-term project. That does not mean that it closes the door to specific alliances when the interests coincide, as in the case of La Rioja, where España Vaciada has allied itself with the Riojan Party to compete in the regional elections.
This attitude – the opposite of the one adopted in the last five years by new formations such as Ciudadanos, precisely one of those that today has become a provider of candidates in search of acronyms – explains that Soria Ya being the most powerful formation on the platform in Castilla and León, this brand does not present any candidacy in the municipal elections of the province. In Castilla y León, Spain Vaciada presents fifty candidacies, including candidacies for mayor of Valladolid, Burgos and Salamanca.
On the contrary, her option to enter the Courts of Castilla-La Mancha has been trusted to present a powerful list for the province of Cuenca, with the brand Cuenca Ahora, headed by the composer and dubbing actor Ángel Corpa, founder of the famous folk group from the seventies Jarcha –author of the “transition anthem”, the song Libertad sin ira, popularized in the promotion of the newspaper Diario 16–, instead of accelerating the creation of lists throughout all the provinces of the autonomous community. In this regard, they are based on the success of the elections in Castilla y León last year, in which the Soria Ya party, with its single province, managed to raise three seats for the autonomous parliament for that province. The opposite case is that of Aragón. , where this time, in addition to the obvious commitment of Teruel Existe, they will present lists in the three provinces and where they foresee an important result in view of their presence in the Cortes of Aragon.
The platform plans to hold a joint event to present candidates at the end of April, but in the meantime its attitude is being unusually prudent in order to please the lists. Unlike what has been seen with the emergence of new state brands such as Podemos or Ciudadanos, which recruited many politicians from veteran parties to penetrate the territory, España Vaciada is committed to the reverse process: offering collectives and activists with experience in defending of the territory but not from the institutional policy, joining the platform, a more organic and less agile process.
Sources from the organization, however, insist that their strategic conviction is that their objectives are long-term and that, given the success and political performance of Teruel's only and historic seat in Congress in this legislature, their strategy is focused on the general elections in December, for which they have not given up the ambitious objective of obtaining their own parliamentary group.
