New parliamentary elections are held this Sunday in Spain. Pablo Iglesias, secretary general of Podemos, the born out of the Indignados movement, has rapidly become a leading figure in the political landscape, against the grain of traditional parties.
Passionate and sincere for some, dangerous and populist for others: Pablo Iglesias has managed in two years to make his radical left party Podemos the main opponent of the right in Spain. “Forward humble people (…) history is ours and it is made by the people!” thundered Friday that political science professor of 37 years, citing Chile’s Salvador Allende, before his supporters who chanted “Pablo president.”
More often in shirt sleeves, long hair tied, the child of the working class district of Vallecas in Madrid has come a long way since the creation in 2014 of the Podemos party ( “We”).
a name predestined
he previously gained notoriety by hosting its own political program on the internet. The experience was an excellent speaker on television and in the European Parliament (2014-2015) and the Congress of Deputies since January 2016 as leader of his party.
Only Son of Republicans had met at the foot of the tomb of the founder of the Spanish Socialist workers Party (PSOE), it bears the name and first name of the latter, Pablo Iglesias Posse, and leaves no one indifferent. turn it is said to turn brittle and soft like “a lamb”. And former leader of the Socialist government Felipe Gonzalez (fierce critic) even believed diagnose in him a “split personality”.
He himself acknowledged gone too far in invective in parliament launching twice the Socialists that their past was “tainted with quicklime,” referring to clandestine commandos manned by police in the 1980 killing of ETA activists. But it can also show funny and accessible boarding a presenter on her red scooter or sing “Comandante Che Guevara” accompanying himself on guitar.
Exposing corruption of the big parties
by creating Podemos with a handful of academics in January 2014, Pablo Iglesias has captured much of the voice of the movement of “Indignados”, born in 2011 in Madrid to denounce the austerity policies and rampant corruption of the great gone. Five months later, he was elected MEP as four other candidates Podemos.
The policy has always adhered to the skin of the Spaniard in the light brown and piercing. Child of a lawyer specializing in labor law and a labor inspector jailed under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975) for belonging to an armed group (he was already a member of the Young Communists to 14).
Then he loaded with diplomas (doctorate in political science, law degree, master communication and human resources) before teaching five years at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Marx Fan and American series
Close to the anti-globalization movement and inspired by the founder of the Italian Communist Party, Antonio Gramsci, it also cites Marx willingly, like the American television series which he is a fan. To his former professor Ramon Cotarelo, he was a student, “preventing” and a student “bright”, dreaming of “influencing public life dramatically.” A “false image” protests a former colleague at the university, Antonio Elorza, who he “forbade any just cause, history not to lose an ounce of power.”
He obsesses at all if the executives of the Socialist Party who, privately, ensure that this “populist Leninist” wants to “eliminate” their centenary training. They even called a traitor when he abruptly severed talks to form a government in April.
Close to the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, he had pasted on his cell phone the slogan ” Syriza, Podemos, we will win. ” But right especially like the attack to its links with the deceased Hugo Chávez regime in Venezuela, where he visited three times. It’s “opportunism incarnate”, asserts Antonio Elorza. Ramon Cotarelo judge him for Iglesias, “the important thing is to win and to come to power to be at the service of its ideals.”
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