Podemos and Ciudadanos Parties are set to upend conventional order in latest Spanish elections

In a recent interview with the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, Spain’s interior minister and candidate for Congress Jorge Fernandez Diaz revealed that he possesses his very own guardian angel named Marcelo, who helps him with tasks such as parking the car. Coming from a man who awards national policing medals to statues of the Virgin Mary,…

Pablo Iglesias, joker with the king, serious with Spanish Podemos voters

Pablo Iglesias grew in stature as he campaigned. After a slump in voter opinion, his star rose steadily. With his pony tail and beard and supermarket clothes, he excels at lambasting his adversaries, as elitists, members of a caste or ‘lords of the past’. He was an unknown until the Podemos party he leads won five…