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...Co-founder Pablo Iglesias was its first deputy prime minister and anointed Díaz, a close friend, to replace him when he quit in 2021. To some in Podemos, Díaz is now the enemy....
...The Socialists will try to use the spectre of Vox in coalition with the PP at national level to peel centrist voters away from the PP “and to pull people out of abstaining”, said Pablo Simón, a professor...
...José Pablo Ferrándiz, a director at pollster Ipsos, said the elections had been an “unmitigated defeat” for the Socialists. “It cannot be hidden or underestimated....
...Pablo Casado, national head of the People’s party (PP), has been urged to call an extraordinary party congress as he seeks to placate regional leaders and grassroots supporters infuriated by his handling...
...Special thanks to Laura Clarke, Alastair Mackie, Breen Turner, Arlie Adlington and Pablo Diaz Almovera....
...“No economic question is more important in Spain than unemployment,” said Pablo Simón, a professor of politics at Madrid’s Carlos III University....
...The split between Díaz Ayuso and Pablo Casado, the PP’s national leader, involves allegations of bribes for public contracts and could determine the future direction of the centre right party....
...Yolanda Díaz, one of Spain’s deputy prime ministers, said last month that what the banks were offering was “not enough”....
...“We are beginning a dialogue with all the parties,” said Pablo Montesinos, a leading PP official. “The objective is an [exclusively] PP government.”...
...Days of recriminations involving accusations of corruption and espionage culminated on Thursday with the party engineering the exit of Pablo Casado, its national leader....
...That’s not necessarily good news for party leader Pablo Casado, who has spent much of the last few months squabbling with Díaz Ayuso over control of the PP’s Madrid machinery, and who has slid down the polls...
...“This is the most important structural reform of this parliament,” said Pablo Simón, professor of politics at Madrid’s Carlos III University....
...The socialists are tied to a badly wounded radical left, whose leader, Pablo Iglesias, quit as deputy premier to run against Díaz Ayuso, only to lose spectacularly....
...Díaz Ayuso was chosen by Pablo Casado, her party’s leader and an old friend from its youth wing, as Madrid candidate two years ago....
...But the PP remains dependent on Vox, which immediately pledged its support for Díaz Ayuso....
...“Spain owes me one,” retorted Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the head of Madrid’s regional administration. “We’ve got Pablo Iglesias out of the government.”...
...Pablo Casado, whose People’s party (PP) is riding high in opinion polls, told the Financial Times that if he won elections due by the end of 2023, he would enlist outside figures to push through the fiscal...
...The 42-year-old is a phenomenon, eclipsing the national leader of her conservative People’s party, Pablo Casado, whose series of attempts to reposition himself contrasts with Díaz Ayuso’s clear ideological...
...“Podemos was built around the figure of Pablo Iglesias and this change of leadership clearly comes at a very difficult time for them.”...
...In the other is Pablo Iglesias, the leader of the far left Podemos party and a man as reviled by the right as Díaz Ayuso is by the left and who this week resigned as deputy prime minister to face off against...
...Things were looking up for Pablo Casado, the party’s 40-year-old leader....
...Iglesias had previously been replaced as a deputy prime minister by Yolanda Díaz, Spain’s communist minister of labour. Podemos’s five ministers were not part of Saturday’s reshuffle....
...In an ugly campaign that has featured death threats against politicians, Diaz Ayuso’s most high profile opponent is Pablo Iglesias, the leader of the radical-left Podemos grouping....
...Díaz Ayuso will go head to head against Pablo Iglesias, the leader of the far left Podemos party and a man as reviled by the right as Díaz Ayuso is by the left and who this week resigned as deputy prime...
...Letters containing anonymous death threats — and bullets — have been sent to Pablo Iglesias, Díaz Ayuso’s radical-left counter-candidate and Spain’s former deputy prime minister, as well as to the country...
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