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Pablo Iglesias

Spanish politician and co-founder of Podemos

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A political scientist and TV pundit who co-founded Podemos in 2014 out of the 15-M protest movement and served as a deputy prime minister before leaving politics in 2021.

Pablo Iglesias sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and leaning libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly state-led on economy, strongly progressive on culture and strongly anti-establishment on institutions.

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Where Pablo Iglesias sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationSlightly globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologySlightly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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Political views closest to Pablo Iglesias

Critical theoryExamines how power, class, race and gender shape institutions and ideas, and aims to…99%Democratic socialismSeeks democratic control of key industries, broad public ownership and universal services.98%Eco-socialismArgues that capitalism drives ecological crisis and calls for public, democratic control…98%Social ecologyTies the ecological crisis to social hierarchy and proposes directly democratic,…98%

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