Podemos (Spanish political party)

Podemos
General SecretaryIone Belarra
Spokesperson in CongressNone
Spokesperson in SenateNone
FoundersPablo Iglesias Turrión
Íñigo Errejón
Carolina Bescansa
Teresa Rodríguez
Juan Carlos Monedero
Miguel Urbán
Founded16 January 2014 (2014-01-16)
HeadquartersCalle Zurita 21, 28012 Madrid
Think tankInstituto República y Democracia[1]
Youth wingRebeldía Joven
IdeologyLeft-wing populism[2][3][4]
Republicanism[5][6][7]
Federalism[8]
Non-interventionism[9]
Democratic socialism[10]
Political positionLeft-wing[11] to far-left[12]
National affiliation
European affiliationNow the People
European Parliament groupThe Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL
Colours
  •   Violet[a]
  •   Purple[b]
SloganSí 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
podemos.info

Podemos (Spanish: [poˈðemos], translated in English as "We Can")[c] is a left-wing[15][16][17] to far-left[18][19][20] political party in Spain.[10]

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]

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  3. ^ Cas Mudde (2016). On Extremism and Democracy in Europe. Taylor & Francis. p. 141. ISBN 978-1-317-22221-7.
  4. ^ Christopher Ross; Bill Richardson; Begoña Sangrador-Vegas (2016). Contemporary Spain. Routledge. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-317-75164-9.
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  14. ^ "Cuadro resumen de Grupos Parlamentarios (Composición actual)". www.senado.es.
  15. ^ Sola, Jorge; Rendueles, César (2 January 2018). "Podemos, the upheaval of Spanish politics and the challenge of populism". Journal of Contemporary European Studies. 26 (1): 99–116. doi:10.1080/14782804.2017.1304899. hdl:10261/345623. ISSN 1478-2804. S2CID 151589338.
  16. ^ Martín, Jorge Del Palacio; Motos, Carlos Rico (2017). "LA IZQUIERDA EN ESPAÑA E ITALIA TRAS LA CRISIS: PARTIDOS Y ESTRATEGIAS (introducción)". Revista Española de Ciencia Política (in Spanish) (44): 211–217. doi:10.21308/recp.44.08. hdl:10016/30584. ISSN 2173-9870.
  17. ^ Meyenberg, Yolanda (28 April 2017). "Disputar la democracia. El caso de Podemos en España". Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales (in Spanish). 62 (230): 221–241. doi:10.1016/S0185-1918(17)30022-3. ISSN 2448-492X.
  18. ^ Turcu, Anca; Urbatsch, R. (1 February 2021). "Aversion to far-left parties among Europeans voting abroad". Comparative European Politics. 19 (1): 117–138. doi:10.1057/s41295-020-00225-2. ISSN 1740-388X. S2CID 256518833.
  19. ^ Ceia, Vanessa (April 2020). "Digital Ecosystems of Ideology: Linked Media as Rhetoric in Spanish Political Tweets". Social Media + Society. 6 (2): 205630512092663. doi:10.1177/2056305120926630. ISSN 2056-3051.
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  22. ^ "Eclectic mix makes up new European Parliament". Washington Examiner. 27 May 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
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