Podemos sank in Madrid – Pablo Iglesias leaves

THE Pablo Iglesias, the leader of the radical left-wing party Podemos, a partner of the Socialist Party in the ruling coalition in Spain, announced late last night his withdrawal from politics after the defeat of the left in yesterday’s regional elections in Madrid.

«We failedHe told a group of supporters of his party, saying he felt like a “scapegoat mobilizing the darkest, most anti-democratic sentiments”.

“I think it is obvious that today (…) I am not helping to unite people,” continued the 42-year-old Iglesias, founder and leader of Podemos to date.

For this reason, he added, as broadcast by AMPE, “we resign from all my duties, I leave politics in the sense of party politics, institutional politics”, so as not to stand as an obstacle to the renewal of leadership that our politics needs power”.

Iglesias also described as a “tragedy” the triumph of the People’s Party (PP, conservative right), which he described as the “Trump right”, after the name of former US President Donald Trump, as well as the good percentages won by the far-right party. Vox.

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