After leaving politics, she decided to ditch her ponytail as well. Pablo Iglesias, the former leader of Unidas Podemos, has cut his “legendary” pigtail. The former Spanish vice president has decided to say goodbye to his look that since his descent into politics and the creation of the party, in 2014, had earned him some criticism and even a nickname (El coletas) from his opponents.
The news was given by the newspaper The vanguard, who published the photos of Iglesias with short hair, sitting at a table with a book in his hand: an unpublished image since the professor of Political Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid decided to make the leap into public life seven years does.
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“When one is no longer useful, he must know how to withdraw”, were his words last week in which he announced the abandonment of “institutional politics” after losing his latest bet: to relaunch a team for the regional elections in Madrid. waning phase.
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The result, he acknowledged, had been “insufficient” (only 1.6% of the votes more than 5.6% two years ago), while the winner of the elections was the popular candidate Isabel Díaz Ayuso. To focus on the race in Madrid – and give back a jolt to the left that had not governed the capital for thirty years – in mid-March, Iglesias surprisingly left the government of Pedro Sanchez, of which he was vice president.
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