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.
In the run up to the 2015 Spanish general election,various organisations carried out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in Spain during the term of the 10th Cortes Generales. Results of such polls are displayed in this article. The date range for these opinion polls is from the previous general election,held on 20 November 2011,to the day the next election was held,on 20 December 2015.
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 a 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.
The 2019 Valencian regional election was held on Sunday,28 April 2019,to elect the 10th Corts of the Valencian Community. All 99 seats in the Corts were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with the April 2019 Spanish general election. This was the first early regional election ever held in the Valencian Community,as well as the first Valencian election to not be held concurrently with other regional elections.
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.
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 forced 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.
The 39th Federal Congress of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party was held in Madrid between 16 and 18 June 2017,to elect a new party leadership in the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and set out the party's main lines of action and strategy,after the sacking of Pedro Sánchez as party leader in October 2016 had resulted in a caretaker leadership being appointed. The primary election was held on 21 May 2017,after being confirmed in a federal committee on 1 April.
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.
Irene María Montero Gil is a Spanish politician and psychologist,member of the Podemos party. She most recently served as the Minister of Equality of Spain from 13 January 2020 to 20 November 2023. She is the partner of Pablo Iglesias,one of the founders and former leader of her party.
Más Madrid is a progressive regional political party in Spain. Its primary strength is located in the city of Madrid. It advocates for participatory democracy and promotes green politics,having cooperated with like-minded parties such as the Greens Equo and European Green Party members. Sitting on the left wing of the political spectrum,it is the farthest left party represented alongside Unidas Podemos.
Isabel Serra Sánchez is a Spanish activist and politician. She was member of the Podemos Parliamentary Group in the Assembly of Madrid from 2015 to 2021.
In the run up to the November 2019 Spanish general election,various organisations carried out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in Spain during the term of the 13th Cortes Generales. Results of such polls are displayed in this article. The date range for these opinion polls is from the previous general election,held on 28 April 2019,to the day the next election was held,on 10 November 2019.
Rafael "Rafa" Mayoral Perales is a Spanish politician,lawyer and activist. A member of Podemos,he has served as MP in the 11th,12th and 13th terms of the Congress of Deputies representing Madrid.
Más País,or More Country,is a political party in Spain. It was an electoral platform formed by Íñigo Errejón around Más Madrid in order to contest the November 2019 general election.
Ione Belarra Urteaga is a Spanish politician and psychologist from Podemos who served as minister of Social Rights and 2030 Agenda from 2021 to 2023. She has been her party's leader since June 2021.
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.
Alba González Sanz is a Spanish writer and politician of the party Podemos Asturias.
