Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias in Madrid. Demotix/Jose_Hinojosa. All rights reserved.The contours of Podemos today – a political party that has the ambition to win the general elections in Spain and that already governs in municipalities such as Madrid or Barcelona – are the result of an exciting and complex journey. It was exciting because we were aware of having started to move along entirely new paths, which came nonetheless with having to reinvent ourselves with every step of the way.
Specific to the Mareas was their decentralized and leaderless nature, structured around local and regional assemblies which mobilized activists with no personal stakes in the conflict.
The journey was equally complex as we set out to open new spaces for political participation within institutions that have for too long turned their back on the real demands of the people.
