Where others see an opportunity, Spain Buidada has seen a drawback. The platform presents lists in fifteen provinces for the autonomous and municipal elections of 28-M, but there could have been quite a few more. The collapse or decline of political formations with a lot of presence in previous elections has created a market of politicians in transit available, eager to land in new candidacies with possibilities and who have celebrated members of the platform of Spain Empty to present lists in many more places. Today, with the deadline still open to form lists, the platform presents lists for the autonomous regions in Asturias, La Rioja, Castilla-La Mancha and Aragon, and in the local areas it has built candidacies for the provinces of León, Palencia, Burgos, Salamanca, Valladolid, Almeria, Jaén and Guadalajara.
The retreat of other parties, such as Ciutadans or the Regionalist Aragonese Party, instead of serving as an alibi to expand the presence of the platform, has set back those responsible for the project, which remains faithful to its declared purpose of building itself as a "long-term" project. This does not mean that it closes the door to specific alliances when the interests coincide, as in the case of La Rioja, where Espanya Buidada has allied with the Party of La Rioja to run for the regional elections.
This attitude - contrary to that adopted last year by new formations such as Ciutadans, precisely one of those that have today become suppliers of candidates in search of acronyms - explains why Sória is already the most powerful formation on the platform in Castilla y León, this brand does not present any candidacy in the municipal elections of the province. In Castile and León, Espanya Buidada presents fifty candidates, including candidates for the mayorship of Valladolid, Burgos and Salamanca.
In the opposite direction, the option to enter the Courts of Castilla-La Mancha has been given to present a powerful list for the province of Conca, with the brand Conca Ara, headed by the composer and dubbing actor Ángel Corpa, founder of famous folk group of the seventies Jarcha - author of the "anthem of the transition", the song Libertad sin ira, popularized in the promotion of the rotary Diario 16 -, instead of speeding up the creation of lists for all the provinces of the Autonomous Community. In this regard, they are based on the success of the elections in Castile and Leon last year, in which the Sória Ja party managed to obtain three seats in the regional Parliament with its single province. The opposite is the case of Aragon, where this time, in addition to the obvious bet of Terol Existeix, they will present lists in the three provinces and where they anticipate an important result in terms of their presence in the Courts.
The platform plans to hold a joint act of presenting candidates at the end of April, but in the meantime its attitude is being unusually cautious in favor of the lists. Unlike what has been seen with the irruption of new state brands such as Podemos or Ciutadans, which attracted many politicians from veteran parties to penetrate the territory, Espanya Buidada is betting on the reverse process: offering collectives and activists with experience in the defense of the territory but not from the institutional policy to join the platform, a more organic and less agile process.
Sources of the organization, however, insist that its strategic conviction is that its goals are long-term and that, given the success and political returns of the unique and historic seat of Teruel Exists in Congress in this legislature, their strategy is focused on the general elections in December, for which they have not given up on the ambitious goal of obtaining their own parliamentary group.
