Tag: Podemos party - Spain

• Monday, May 25th 2015 - 07:47 UTC

  Spaniards are furious and 'traditional parties' get beaten in regional elections

  

  Spain's ruling People's Party (PP) took a battering on Sunday's regional and local elections after voters punished Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy for four years of severe spending cuts and a string of corruption scandals. In a test of the national mood ahead of general elections expected in November, the PP suffered its worst result in more than 20 years to herald an uncertain era of coalition as new parties rose to fragment the vote.

• Sunday, May 3rd 2015 - 11:47 UTC

  Founding member resigns from Spanish anti-establishment party 'Podemos'

  

  One of the founder members of Podemos, the one-year-old leftist party that has up-ended Spanish politics, has resigned in a surprise move that questions its strategy just as opinion polls show it may have peaked.

• Monday, April 20th 2015 - 23:12 UTC

  Rajoy admits the Rato case impacts on his party's support ahead of elections

  

  Voters in Spain's Valencia region, a bastion of conservatism for two decades, are likely to desert Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's party in droves in May's regional election, a poll published on Sunday found, in a taste of nationwide politics to come.

• Friday, February 6th 2015 - 23:36 UTC

  Anti-austerity Podemos party becomes Spain's second party and political option

  

  Spain’s anti-austerity left-wingers Podemos would come in second, ahead of the Socialist party (PSOE), if general elections were held today, a polling firm declared this week, as the party, barely one year old, continues its surge in popularity.