Spain's far-Left Podemos leader wins confidence vote over luxury home
28 May 2018 5:19 PM GMT
Madrid: Spain's far-left party Podemos has said its leader has won a confidence vote called after an outcry over his purchase of a luxury home. Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias along with his partner who is Podemos parliamentary spokeswoman Irene Montero, won 68.4 per cent of the nearly 190,000 votes cast.
Nearly a third, 31.6 per cent, voted against the couple remaining in their roles, Pablo Echenique, the party's secretary of organisation, said in a Facebook post on Sunday.
The party's nearly 500,000 members were eligible to vote online from Tuesday until on Sunday as to whether the couple should stay on in their roles.
The couple, who are expecting twins, called the vote earlier this month after they were accused of hypocrisy for buying a house for over 600,000 euros (USD 700,000) with a swimming pool and guest house.
The purchase caused unease among the rank and file of Podemos, which was formed in 2014 to represent "the people" against "the caste" -- as it called the country's political and business elites. In the past Iglesias had made much of the fact that he lived in a modest apartment in Vallecas, a working class Madrid neighbourhood, that belonged to his great-aunt and bought his clothes in supermarkets. Agencies
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