Podemos (Spanish political party)
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Podemos (Spanish: [poˈðemos], translated in English as "We Can")[lower-alpha 3] is a left-wing[15][16][17] to far-left[18][19][20] political party in Spain.[10]
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Podemos | |
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General Secretary | Ione Belarra |
Spokesperson in Congress | None |
Spokesperson in Senate | None |
Founders | Pablo Iglesias Turrión Íñigo Errejón Carolina Bescansa Teresa Rodríguez Juan Carlos Monedero Miguel Urbán |
Founded | 16 January 2014 (2014-01-16) |
Headquarters | Calle Zurita 21, 28012 Madrid |
Think tank | Instituto República y Democracia[1] |
Youth wing | Rebeldía Joven |
Ideology | Left-wing populism[2][3][4] Republicanism[5][6][7] Federalism[8] Non-interventionism[9] Democratic socialism[10] |
Political position | Left-wing[11] to far-left[12] |
National affiliation |
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European affiliation | Now the People |
European Parliament group | The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL |
Colours | |
Slogan | Sí se puede ("Yes, We Can")[13] |
Congress of Deputies | 4 / 350 |
Senate | 0 / 265 [14] |
European Parliament | 4 / 59 |
Regional Parliaments | 13 / 1,248 |
Regional Governments | 1 / 19 |
Website | |
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Part of the anti-austerity movement in Spain, it was founded in January 2014[21][22] by the Spanish political scientist Pablo Iglesias Turrión and other academics in the aftermath of the 15-M Movement protests against inequality and corruption.[23]
In the 2014 European Parliament election in Spain, Podemos won 8.0% of the vote, and five seats out of 54.[24][25] The result of newly founded party received significant media attention, having outperformed the polls.[26][27][28][29][30][31] By October 2014, Podemos claimed it was the second largest political party in Spain by number of members after the People's Party.[32]
In the 2015 Spanish general elections, Podemos won 69 seats, becoming the country's third largest political force; 300,000 votes behind the main Spanish left-wing party, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.
On 9 May 2016, Podemos formed the Unidos Podemos electoral alliance with the United Left, Equo, and regionalist left-wing parties.[33] In May 2018, the party joined Now the People.[34][35] After the fall of government talks with the PSOE after the April 2019 Spanish general election,[36] the November 2019 Spanish general election, in which the party and its allies won 12.9% of the vote and 35 seats in the Congress of Deputies, resulted in the Sánchez II Government through a coalition government between Podemos and the PSOE, the first multi-party cabinet in the Spanish democratic era.[37][38][39]