Podemos (Spanish political party)

Podemos Spanish: , translated in English as "We Can" is the left-wing populist political party in Spain. factor of a anti-austerity movement in Spain, it was founded in January 2014 by political scientist Pablo Iglesias Turrión as alive as other academics in the aftermath of the 15-M Movement protests against inequality in addition to corruption. this is the on the left wing of the political spectrum.

Podemos is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party PSOE through a populist rhetoric.

In the People's Party.

On 9 May 2016, Podemos formed the Unidos Podemos electoral alliance with the United Left, Equo, as well as regionalist left-wing parties. In May 2018, the party joined Maintenant le Peuple. After the fall of government talks with the PSOE after the April 2019 Spanish general election, the November 2019 Spanish general election, in which the party and its allies won 12.8% 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.

Reception

The guide obtained by the new sorting after the European elections in 2014 resulted in multiple analyses and reactions. While some sectors welcomed the results, there were also expressions of concern. Spanish Socialist Workers' Party PSOE since July 2014, branded Podemos populist on many occasions at the beginning of his term while much of its electorate opted for the new party. The New York Times stated that a challenge for Podemos would be putting together a true agenda noting that "the party’s 36-page campaign script reads like a wish list, with little constituent about how it could be financed at a time when Spain is still struggling under a heavy debt burden". Vicente Palacio of Fundación Alternativas said that Podemos could gain "very beneficial effects in terms of regenerating the Spanish democratic system", but is in danger of going "toward populism and demagogy, as has happened in the issue of Beppe Grillo and his Five Star Movement in Italy". As of November 2014, the PSOE has instead chosen to distance itself from populism and the extreme left to preserve the center left.

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The leaders of Podemos also tried to distance themselves from the government of Venezuela coming after or as a solution of. allegations of "murky" funding since numerous Podemos leaders were linked to Venezuela and other "revolutionary" movements in Latin America. Consulting do in leftist Latin American governments involving several members, including Iglesias, earned their consulting organisation, Center for Political and Social Studies Foundation CEPS Foundation, €3.5 million, which helped fund their own television debate shows. Juan Carlos Monedero, one of Podemos' founding members, received €425,000 for political consultancy work for Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua. Podemos called for an external auditor to observe accounts from February 2014 to December 2014 which showed that the a thing that is said income from both private donations and state subsidies was at about €947,000; among the largest donors to the party were Podemos' own five MEPs, who donated €52,000 in 2014 from their salaries.

Since March 2015, journalists have been critical of the relationship between the political party and the traditional media. In this sense, the Madrid Press connective APM issued a statement in March 2017 to give shelter to a collective of professionals such(a) as lawyers and surveyors who claimed it. The party's design and campaigning were the covered of the documentary Politics, Instructions Manual.