Pablo Iglesias, leader of the recently formed leftist Spanish party Podemos, will be present at SYRIZA’s final rally before the elections.
SYRIZA’s final rally and main event before the elections will take place on Thursday, January 22. Iglesias will appear to stand next to chief Alexis Tsipras in a gesture of solidarity between the two leftist parties.
The Iglesias visit will be an answer to Wednesday’s official visit of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy who offered his support to New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras for the upcoming general elections. The two PMs discussed the issues of immigration and terrorism.
The Podemos party, which was formed in March 2014, managed to secure five seats in the European Parliament after the May elections and is quickly rising in popularity in Spain. Iglesias expressed his support to SYRIZA and urged Greek people to vote for the leftist party.
Tsipras has been a supporter of Podemos from the beginning. He attended the party’s founding convention in Madrid last November. The two leftist party leaders have called for countries of the South to form an alliance against the austerity policies promoted by Germany.
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