“The politics of austerity have been shown to be a huge failure” - Pablo Iglesias interviewed by the Financial Times

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Iglesias is running late, which does not come as a surprise. The leader of Spain’s Podemos party is in the middle of a frantic political campaign — the most important yet for the anti-austerity movement he helped found only two years ago. On December 20, Spanish voters will elect a new prime minister, and Iglesias hopes they will pick him, a 37-year-old, pony-tailed political scientist with no experience of public office, to lead one of Europe’s largest economies.
I start by asking him about the convulsions gripping European politics, particularly on the left. Does the sudden emergence of parties such as Podemos in Spain and Syriza in Greece — not to mention Jeremy Corbyn’s surprise triumph in Britain’s Labour party — herald the end of Europe’s traditional centre-left parties?
Iglesias thinks it does — and that the shift is already “unstoppable”.
Read the interview in full on the Financial Times.
Pablo Iglesias' new book Politics in a Time of Crisis: Podemos and the Future of Democracy in Europe is 50% off when you buy from our site (with free shipping and bundled ebook) until the end of December.
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