Podemos
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52/60 · 87%
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Documented proposals
Seasonal rentals
Belarra identifies seasonal rentals as a loophole for avoiding residential limits and welcomes closing it. This is a national leader’s Congress speech, distinct from the territorial Murcia release.
Source and assessmentWorking week
Santana supports the 37.5-hour bill without a pay cut while proposing a 30-hour week. This is support as a first step, not a 29N manifesto.
Source and assessmentPensions
Podemos supports CPI uprating to protect purchasing power and seeks minimum pensions at the minimum wage. Coding uses its defence of the indexation rule, not just its vote on the 2026 increase.
Source and assessmentMass legalisation of migrants
Belarra supports the extraordinary agreement and its eligibility requirements in a Hora 25 interview. National leadership position.
Source and assessmentPublic healthcare
Podemos’s proposal supports direct public management and reversing privatisation, starting with inspection of contracted and concession services. Published in 2025; neither a 29N manifesto nor a claim that reversal has been enacted.
Source and assessmentLow-emission zones
2023 joint Murcia manifesto: implementation of the national law (historical reference). The joint Podemos, IU and Alianza Verde Murcia manifesto explicitly supports implementing the national low-emission-zone law and improving public transport to make it work. This cites endorsement of the national requirement without extrapolating its local tram plans across Spain.
Source and assessmentRent prices
Sánchez Serna proposes statutory rent limits, public housing and restrictions on speculative funds.
Source and assessmentSuspending evictions
Belarra supports eviction protection for families without other housing.
Source and assessmentEviction for unpaid rent
Sánchez Serna opposes accelerating civil evictions in PP’s housing proposal, highlighting low-income households. His substantive criticism explicitly addresses faster proceedings and reduced protection, rather than relying on a package vote.
Source and assessmentIllegal squatting
Belarra Urteaga, Ione votes against separately voted amendment 539, adding unlawful entry into a home and usurpation to fast criminal proceedings. This concerns the specific criminal route, not unpaid rent or every civil recovery procedure.
Source and assessmentAutomatic lease renewal
Supports stable renewal while rent is paid, with landlord exceptions under decree 27/2026. The decree was repealed on 2 October.
Source and assessmentHousing purchases by investment funds
Proposes broader restrictions on funds and recovery of empty homes; this does not establish support for every later decree provision.
Source and assessmentBorder controls
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Proposes replacing Frontex with a search-and-rescue agency and safe legal routes, opposing expansion of the border-control model.
Source and assessmentSeeking asylum at the border
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Rejects collective returns, violations of non-refoulement and returns without individual vulnerability assessment.
Source and assessmentSharing responsibility for migrant children
Belarra and the other three Podemos MPs vote to retain the specific decree requiring reception of migrant children during an extraordinary migratory contingency.
Source and assessmentRepeated petty theft
Rejects higher penalties for petty theft and calls for other responses to crime.
Source and assessmentWho chooses the judges on the judicial council
Santana opposes judicial self-selection of the council, announces opposition and defends democratic justice.
Source and assessmentSpecial courts for politicians
Echenique supports removing special political jurisdiction and criticises privileges that bypass ordinary courts, also calling for an end to revolving doors.
Source and assessmentLobbyists: who influences government
2019 government agreement, section 2.11.4 (historical reference). The PSOE–Unidas Podemos government agreement includes a mandatory public register of lobby meetings and agendas. This is a historical commitment from the 2019 agreement, rather than a new 2026 election proposal.
Source and assessmentProtecting people who report corruption
Supports the whistleblower-protection bill establishing an independent national authority (Law 2/2023, article 42). Evidence of the substantive legislative vote; abstentions are not assigned a stance.
Source and assessmentAmnesty for the Catalan independence process
Supports adopting the 2024 amnesty to address the Catalan political conflict.
Source and assessmentIndependence referendums
Article by Podemos’s discourse coordinator (2015; historical reference). Podemos discourse coordinator Moruno supports a referendum with yes and no options while advocating remaining in a plurinational Spain. He rejects replacing a public vote with a unilateral declaration.
Source and assessmentBasque self-government
Podemos Euskadi calls for completing all Gernika transfers as soon as possible. Vaquero presents them as tools for social rights and public services, with democratic oversight of how the powers are used.
Source and assessmentCatalan and other languages in school
Iglesias’s intervention in the national investiture debate (2016). Iglesias defends the democratically adopted Catalan immersion model and opposes imposed national changes. His 2016 national parliamentary intervention is a historical reference concerning who should decide language policy.
Source and assessmentTaxes on large fortunes
Proposes increasing wealth taxation with state coordination to fund services.
Source and assessmentPublic or subsidised private schools
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Proposes public schools covering 90% of demand within a decade and countering segregation in systems with extensive private-school subsidies.
Source and assessmentAbortion access
Irene Montero advocates public healthcare provision and restoring autonomous decisions for women aged 16 and 17.
Source and assessmentTrans law: changing legal sex
Irene Montero supports self-determination without treating trans identity as an illness. This is her identified ministerial speech, not attribution to an entire coalition.
Source and assessmentEuthanasia
Supports lawful assistance in dying with medical safeguards and personal choice, seeking to avoid unnecessary court delays.
Source and assessmentExtending nuclear plant lifetimes
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Proposes a roadmap to end nuclear fission power across the EU and manage its waste publicly.
Source and assessmentDefence: 2% of GDP
Belarra opposes raising military spending to meet the 2% requirement and prioritises public services; the speech’s economic estimates are the party’s claims.
Source and assessmentArms embargo on Israel
Belarra calls for a real embargo, cancellation of contracts and removal of the cabinet exception. Criticism of the decree is not opposition to an embargo.
Source and assessmentMinimum wage
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Proposes raising the minimum wage to improve the incomes of lower-paid workers.
Source and assessmentMinimum income
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Supports a minimum-income benefit and better access for low-income households.
Source and assessmentFree nursery places
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Proposes free early-childhood education places up to age three.
Source and assessmentSupport for people needing daily care
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Supports public help for people who need daily care and their families.
Source and assessmentMental health
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Proposes stronger mental-health support through public services.
Source and assessmentStudent grants
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Supports grants and financial help so that low income does not prevent further study.
Source and assessmentScience and research
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Supports public funding for science and research.
Source and assessmentViolence against women
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Supports specific measures and protection against gender-based violence towards women.
Source and assessmentOnline privacy
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Proposes stronger data protection and individual rights in digital environments.
Source and assessmentEnergy and global warming
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Supports reducing emissions and moving towards clean energy to address climate change.
Source and assessmentFood and farming
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Supports public aid and funding to sustain local agricultural production.
Source and assessmentPublic transport fares
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Proposes public funding to reduce the cost of public transport.
Source and assessmentEuropean Union decisions
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Proposes a common European fiscal policy and stronger social and feminist foundations for European integration.
Source and assessmentAid to other countries
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Supports public funding for development cooperation to fight poverty and inequality.
Source and assessmentLife in small towns and villages
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Supports services and infrastructure giving small communities and rural areas access to basic services.
Source and assessmentCulture and heritage
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Supports public backing for culture and preserving and sharing heritage.
Source and assessmentWater and drought
Podemos’s own 2024 European manifesto; policy for the EU and its member states. Proposes investment and water-saving, efficiency or reuse measures to address scarcity and drought.
Source and assessmentIncome tax: low and middle incomes
Podemos’s own April 2019 manifesto (historical reference). Proposed an 18% rate for the first taxable bracket and higher rates above €100,000. This is a 2019 proposal.
Source and assessmentIncome tax and inflation
Separate vote on income-tax point 1. Nonbinding motion; it does not change the law. Voted against general income-tax adjustment. This vote does not establish a position on every targeted cut for lower incomes.
Source and assessmentBurqa and niqab in public spaces
Congress speech, 14 April 2026. Opposes the state dictating how women dress and warns that a ban would isolate them.
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