SYRIZA issued the following statement, following the agreement between PSOE and Unidas Podemos:

SYRIZA greets the agreement between PSOE and Unidas Podemos to form a coalition government.

Collaboration between the left and progressive forces is the only way to protect the interests of the great majority of citizens, to strengthen the social state, to support social justice, labour and social rights, and to safeguard Democracy.

Yesterday Portugal, today Spain. The Iberian Peninsula has shown the way to another Europe, far from the bonds of disastrous neo-liberal policies, and from nationalism, racism and bigotry.