But most importantly, Podemos uses a decision-making model - TopicsExpress

But most importantly, Podemos uses a decision-making model strikingly different from the two mainstream parties. They call it the “constituent process.” A number of local “circles” peppered across Spain shape the overall party structure. Made up of anyone who wants to participate, these circles introduce and debate proposals for the party to take up. Each circle has an organizational leadership that works by compulsory rotation. And each avoids a subordinate relationship to the circles in Madrid, where the party was founded and where Iglesias and other key organizers participate. Voting and circulating proposals online makes this kind of politics possible. Everyone’s on equal footing, and everyone has a chance to lead the party. Podemos took many by surprise this past May when nearly 1.25 million Spaniards voted for them in the European Parliament elections. This nearly 8 percent vote share earned Podemos five seats, which, in addition to Iglesias, are occupied by green activist Teresa Rodríguez, unemployed server Lola Sánchez, physical chemist Pablo Echenique, and teacher Tania González. While heavy on academics, the candidates on the Podemos ticket represented more of a cross-section of the Spanish citizenry than any other party in the country. Their ages ranged from eighteen to seventy-eight, and their vocations from firefighter to librarian, but most importantly they included unemployed workers of all shades. Spain’s mainstream media didn’t expect anything from any of the minority parties, let alone one that had been founded only months before the election. The success of Podemos has forced many from the center-left Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party) and the right-wing Partido Popular (Popular Party) to attempt to explain away the phenomenon. Pedro Arriola, an influential sociologist and principal advisor to President Mariano Rajoy, lamented soon after the elections that: “All the freaks in the world ended up conspiring in Madrid.”

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