Spanish municipalism with Vicente Rubio-Pueyo

Episode 40: The Future of Unidas Podemos – The Sobremesa Podcast

Sorry this episode is a bit late but I have covid!Recorded two weeks ago, Nerea Fernández Cordero, Co-coordinadora at IU Exterior (Izquierda Unida), and political journalist  Eoghan Gilmartin join me to discuss the coalition party called Unidas Podemos. We talk about how it came to be and where it goes from here that their founding leader has left politics, and now that they are part of the first left wing coalition since the second republic. 

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Vicente Rubio-Pueyo is a Spanish academic based in New York and member of Minim, a municipalism observatory. https://minim-municipalism.org/

He sat down with me to discuss modern day Spanish municipalism and the effect it has had on politics and the cities it governed.

For further details on how the municipalism started in Spain, listen to my interview on 15M

The second part of my interview, about the rise of Vox and nationalism, with Vincente will be out later this week.

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