https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed So long, ponytail. First he left the government, then he left politics. And now Spain's Pablo Iglesias has taken change one step further by lopping off his trademark long locks. https://www.thelocal.es/20210513/out-of-politics-pony-tailed-podemos-founder-cuts-hair Thu, 13 May 2021 11:23:19 +0200 out-of-politics-pony-tailed-podemos-founder-cuts-hair Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias said Tuesday he was resigning from politics after a dire showing by his hard-left party in Madrid’s regional election which was resoundingly won by the right. https://www.thelocal.es/20210505/podemos-pablo-iglesias-quits-politics-after-madrid-regional-elections-drubbing Wed, 05 May 2021 10:57:51 +0200 podemos-pablo-iglesias-quits-politics-after-madrid-regional-elections-drubbing Pablo Iglesias, leader of the hard-left party Podemos and a deputy prime minister in Spain's ruling coalition, said Monday he was stepping down from the government to run as head of the Madrid region. https://www.thelocal.es/20210315/spains-hard-left-deputy-pm-to-step-down-to-run-as-madrid-leader Mon, 15 Mar 2021 14:09:28 +0100 spains-hard-left-deputy-pm-to-step-down-to-run-as-madrid-leader Spain’s deputy prime minister Pablo Iglesias, leader of the Podemos party, announced on Monday that a new child protection law planned for Spain would be named after musician and campaigner James Rhodes. https://www.thelocal.es/20200211/spain-introduces-new-child-protection-law-named-after-british-pianist-james-rhodes Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:28:58 +0100 spain-introduces-new-child-protection-law-named-after-british-pianist-james-rhodes Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Thursday that he would not accept far-left Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias being part of his government. https://www.thelocal.es/20190718/spains-pedro-sanchez-rejects-including-podemos-in-government Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:59:27 +0200 spains-pedro-sanchez-rejects-including-podemos-in-government The leader of Spain's far-left party Podemos, who has praised the achievements of Venezuela's leftist government in the past, on Thursday changed course, saying the situation in the Latin American country was "disastrous". https://www.thelocal.es/20181214/podemos-admits-it-was-wrong-to-praise-venezuela Fri, 14 Dec 2018 11:49:41 +0100 podemos-admits-it-was-wrong-to-praise-venezuela Spain's far-left party Podemos, which helped the Socialists oust the conservatives and take power, accused new Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of being "arrogant" for thinking "he could govern alone." https://www.thelocal.es/20180609/far-left-podemos-accuses-spains-new-pm-of-arrogance Sat, 09 Jun 2018 12:36:07 +0200 far-left-podemos-accuses-spains-new-pm-of-arrogance Spain's far-left party Podemos said Sunday its leader has won a confidence vote called after an outcry over his purchase of a luxury home. https://www.thelocal.es/20180528/podemos-leader-wins-confidence-vote-over-luxury-home Mon, 28 May 2018 11:58:24 +0200 podemos-leader-wins-confidence-vote-over-luxury-home A Spanish court on Wednesday sentenced a young woman to jail for posting jokes on Twitter about the 1973 assassination of a senior figure in the Franco dictatorship. https://www.thelocal.es/20170329/woman-sentenced-to-jail-for-twitter-jokes-as-critic Thu, 30 Mar 2017 00:03:55 +0200 woman-sentenced-to-jail-for-twitter-jokes-as-critic Spain's Socialists and new far-left party Podemos said on Wednesday they had restarted talks to form a government and break a three-month political deadlock following an inconclusive December 20th election. https://www.thelocal.es/20160330/podemos-psoe-pablo-igesias-pedro-sanchez-socialists Wed, 30 Mar 2016 17:43:38 +0200 podemos-psoe-pablo-igesias-pedro-sanchez-socialists Podemos has risen at meteoric speed to become Spain's third political force in just two years, but rifts and tensions are starting to bruise the far-left party's image of watertight unity. https://www.thelocal.es/20160316/growing-pains-for-spains-podemos-as-rifts-emerge Wed, 16 Mar 2016 10:13:41 +0100 growing-pains-for-spains-podemos-as-rifts-emerge Spain's far-left Podemos party said it would again vote against a bid by Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez on Friday to form a new government with centrist allies, following inconclusive elections last December. https://www.thelocal.es/20160304/podemos-set-to-block-socialist-bid-to-form-spanish-govt Fri, 04 Mar 2016 13:24:00 +0100 podemos-set-to-block-socialist-bid-to-form-spanish-govt The famously casually-dressed leader of Podemos was almost unrecognizable at the Goya awards on Saturday night. https://www.thelocal.es/20160208/he-scrubs-up-well-pablo-iglesias-gets-suited-and-booted-for-film-awards Mon, 08 Feb 2016 12:36:16 +0100 he-scrubs-up-well-pablo-iglesias-gets-suited-and-booted-for-film-awards Police are investigating allegations that the radical left party which became the third political force after a general election last month has been illegally financed with money from the Iranian regime. https://www.thelocal.es/20160113/is-spains-radical-leftist-podemos-party-secretly-funded-by-iran Wed, 13 Jan 2016 12:59:32 +0100 is-spains-radical-leftist-podemos-party-secretly-funded-by-iran The head of far-left party Podemos, which came third in a general election, said Monday his priority is to defend Spain's sovereignty, saying the country will never again be subordinate to Germany. https://www.thelocal.es/20151221/spain-will-not-be-subordinate-to-germany Mon, 21 Dec 2015 18:51:02 +0100 spain-will-not-be-subordinate-to-germany Spain's conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will on Friday hold talks for the first time with the leader of new far-left party Podemos in a bid to craft a unified response to a Catalan separatist drive, his office said. https://www.thelocal.es/20151029/spain-pm-to-meet-podemos-leader-over-catalonia-secession-drive Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:28:09 +0100 spain-pm-to-meet-podemos-leader-over-catalonia-secession-drive They both share the surname Iglesias and one elderly Spanish man found it all too much this week when he confused Podemos leader Pablo for legendary crooner Julio. https://www.thelocal.es/20151019/spot-the-difference Mon, 19 Oct 2015 18:02:57 +0200 spot-the-difference Best-selling French economist Thomas Piketty has become an official advisor to Spain's Podemos, the far-left anti-austerity party announced on Monday as its leader visited Paris. https://www.thelocal.es/20150908/star-economist-piketty-to-advise-spain-anti-austerity-party Tue, 08 Sep 2015 10:35:14 +0200 star-economist-piketty-to-advise-spain-anti-austerity-party A regional deputy of Spanish anti-austerity party Podemos on Monday branded Greece's deal with eurozone creditors a "financial coup d'Etat" against Athens and the governing Syriza party, allies of Podemos. https://www.thelocal.es/20150713/podemos-slams-greek-deal-as-financial-coup Mon, 13 Jul 2015 16:31:03 +0200 podemos-slams-greek-deal-as-financial-coup A video of left-wing Greek leader Alexis Tsipras snubbing his Spanish left-wing counterpart Pablo Iglesias has gone viral on social media. https://www.thelocal.es/20150709/video-tsipras-dissing-podemos-leader-goes-viral Thu, 09 Jul 2015 14:24:55 +0200 video-tsipras-dissing-podemos-leader-goes-viral