Unidos Podemos
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Unidos Podemos
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| Leader | Pablo Iglesias |
| Founded | 9 May 2016 |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| Slogan |
La sonrisa de un país (The smile of a country) |
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| Congress of Deputies |
71 / 350
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| Senate |
23 / 266
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| lasonrisadeunpais |
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Unidos Podemos (Spanish: [uˈniðos poˈðemos], translated to United We Can), formerly known simply as Podemos–IU, is a left-wing electoral alliance formed by Podemos, United Left, Equo and allied left-wing parties in May 2016 to contest the 2016 Spanish general election. The alliance's official pre-agreement was announced on 9 May 2016 after weeks of negotiations.
While campaigning for the 2015 general election, United Left (IU) promoted the creation of, and later joined, the Now in Common (Ahora en Común, AeC) platform, seeking a wide alliance with other left-wing parties. After Podemos rejected invitations to join to what some members of this party called an "acronym soup", heightened after the failure of Catalunya Sí que es Pot in the 2015 Catalan election, the AeC platform gradually lost momentum: its founding members left the project and the brand name was lost. Eventually, the platform turned into the Popular Unity (IU-UPeC) electoral coalition without having fulfilled its initial aspirations.
From 20 April 2016, Podemos and Popular Unity were reported to be in negotiations to form a joint electoral list for upcoming general election aimed at relegating the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) into third place. Leaders from both parties denied that any agreement had been reached, and stated that they "would not do anything until it [the new election] was sure", but confirmed that unofficial talks had begun. More than one hundred intellectuals and artists, including El Gran Wyoming, Antonia San Juan, Carlos Bardem, Fernando Tejero or Luis Tosar, signed a manifesto calling for Podemos, IU and their regional alliances to "join forces" for the coming election. On the other hands, some member parties of IU such as Open Left, led by former IU leader, Gaspar Llamazares, were opposed to the alliance from the beginning.
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