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Key facts
- General secretary
- Ione Belarra
- Spokesperson
- Isabel Serra , Pablo Fernández Santos
- Founder
- Pablo Iglesias Turrión
- Founded
- 16 January 2014 ( 2014-01-16 )
- Headquarters
- Calle Zurita 21, 28012 Madrid
- Think tank
- Instituto República y Democracia
- Youth wing
- Rebeldía Joven
- Ideology
- Left-wing populism Democratic socialism Republicanism Federalism Non-interventionism
- Political position
- Left-wing to far-left
- National affiliation
- Sumar (2023) Unidas Podemos , (2016–2023)
- European affiliation
- European Left Alliance, for the People and the Planet , Now the People !
- European parliament group
- The Left in the European Parliament
- Colours
- Violet Purple
- Slogan
- Sí se puede , ('Yes, We Can')
- Congress of deputies
- 4 / 350
- Senate
- 0 / 266
- European parliament
- 2 / 61
- Regional parliaments
- 9 / 1,248
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Encyclopedic overview
Podemos ([poˈðemos], lit. 'We Can') is a left-wing to far-left political party in Spain. Founded in January 2014 by the political scientist Pablo Iglesias Turrión as part of the anti-austerity movement in Spain, the party is currently led by Secretary-General Ione Belarra.
Podemos emerged in the context of the economic crisis at the start of the 2010s and the aftermath of the Spain's anti-austerity movement, which was protesting against inequality and corruption. A fast-growing movement, the party took part in the 2014 European Parliament election, winning almost 8% of the vote and five seats out of 54, outperforming the polls. The party would go on to participate in the 2015 and 2016 Spanish general election, becoming the country's third-largest political force, but underperforming against the PSOE in the battle for hegemony in the Spanish left.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Podemos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.