The 2016 Spanish general election was held on Sunday,26 June 2016,to elect the 12th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election,as well as 208 of 266 seats in the Senate.
Podemos is a left-wing populist political party in Spain. Part of the anti-austerity movement in Spain,it was founded in January 2014 by political scientist Pablo Iglesias Turrión and other academics in the aftermath of the 15-M Movement protests against inequality and corruption. It is on the left wing of the political spectrum.
Pablo Iglesias Turrión is a Spanish political scientist and former politician. During his political career,he served as Second Deputy Prime Minister and as Minister of Social Rights and 2030 Agenda of the Government of Spain from 2020 to 2021. He also served as Member of the Congress of Deputies from 2016 to 2021,representing Madrid. Iglesias is co-founder of Podemos,a left-wing political party that he led from 2014 until his resignation in 2021.
Miguel Urbán Crespo is a Spanish activist and politician. A longstanding figure of the Trotskyist Izquierda Anticapitalista platform and co-founder of Podemos,he serves as Member of the European Parliament since 2015,integrated within the European United Left–Nordic Green Left political group.
En ComúPodem is an electoral coalition in Catalonia,originally formed in October 2015 by Unidas Podemos,Barcelona en Comú,Initiative for Catalonia Greens,United and Alternative Left,and Equo,and led by the Mayor of Barcelona,Ada Colau,to contest the 2015 Spanish general election.
Íñigo Errejón Galván is a Spanish political scientist and politician,serving as member of the 14th Congress of Deputies.
Rita Gertrudis Bosaho Gori is an Equatorial Guinean-Spanish politician and activist member of Podemos,serving as Director-General for Equality of Treatment and Ethnic-racial Diversity in the Spanish Ministry of Equality since 2020. She was a member of the 11th and 12th terms of the Congress of Deputies.
Attempts to form a government in Spain followed the inconclusive Spanish general election of 20 December 2015,which failed to deliver an overall majority for any political party. As a result,the previous People's Party (PP) cabinet headed by Mariano Rajoy was formed to remain in a caretaker capacity until the election of a new government.
The April 2019 Spanish general election was held on Sunday,28 April 2019,to elect the 13th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election,as well as 208 of 266 seats in the Senate.
A motion of no confidence in the Spanish government of Mariano Rajoy was debated and voted in the Congress of Deputies between 13 and 14 June 2017. It was brought by Unidos Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias as a result of a corruption case involving high-ranking People's Party (PP) officials,amid accusations of maneuvers from the Rajoy government to influence the judicial system in order to cover-up the scandal. This was the third vote of no confidence held in Spain since the country's transition to democracy—after the unsuccessful 1980 and 1987 ones—as well as the first not to be registered by the main opposition party at the time. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE),Citizens (Cs) and the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) announced their rejection to any candidate proposed by Podemos,meaning that the motion was unlikely to succeed.
Pablo Fernández Santos is a Spanish politician,procurator in the Cortes of Castile and León and member of Podemos.
Irene María Montero Gil,MP is a Spanish politician and psychologist,member of the Podemos party. She currently serves as the Minister of Equality of Spain since 13 January 2020. She is the partner of Pablo Iglesias,the founder and former leader of her party.
Sofía Fernández Castañón is a Spanish poet,writer,audiovisual producer,and politician. She has worked in print,television,and radio,and received several poetry prizes. Since January 2016 she has been a member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies for Podemos,representing Asturias,and since 2020 she has served as deputy spokesperson for the Unidas Podemos Confederal Parliamentary Group. In December 2021 she was elected leader of the regional branch of the party,Podemos Asturies. Furthermore,since 2017 she has been a member of the party's national board,where she has served first as Secretary of Intersectional Feminisms and LGTBI and currently as Secretary of Cultures.
Pablo Bustinduy Amador is a Spanish politician,member of Podemos. He has been member of the 11th and 12th Congress of Deputies,representing Madrid.
The next Spanish general election will be held no later than Sunday,10 December 2023,to elect the 15th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies will be up for election,as well as 208 of 265 seats in the Senate.
Yolanda Díaz Pérez is a Spanish politician and lawyer specialised in labour law,serving as Second Deputy Prime Minister since 2021 and Minister of Labour and Social Economy of the Government of Spain since 2020. A member of the Congress of Deputies since 2016,she has previously been a former Ferrol municipal councillor (2003–2012) and member of the Parliament of Galicia (2012–2016). She was the National Coordinator of Esquerda Unida (EU) from 2005 to 2017.
Ione Belarra Urteaga is a Spanish politician and psychologist from Podemos who currently serves as Minister of Social Rights and 2030 Agenda. She has been her party's leader since June 2021.
María Gloria Elizo Serrano is a Spanish lawyer,politician of Podemos and the third vice president of the Congress of Deputies. Since February 18,2017,she has been part of the national executive of We Can in different responsibilities and since June 8,2019 as Secretary of Democratic Regeneration and Policies against Corruption.
Attempts to form a government in Spain followed the Spanish general election of 28 April 2019,which failed to deliver an overall majority for any political party. As a result,the previous cabinet headed by Pedro Sánchez was formed to remain in a caretaker capacity until the election of a new government.
Noelia Vera Ruiz-Herrera is a Spanish journalist and former politician of the Podemos party. She was a member of the Congress of Deputies from 2015 to her resignation in 2021,and was the Secretary of State for Equality from 2020 to 2021.
