Pablo Iglesias’ Tweeting Style: Unsuccessfully Aspiring to Renew Spanish Political Discourse

The left-wing reformist partyPodemoserupted on the Spanish political scene in January 2014 with a promise of renewal. The economic crisis and the strong laws passed by the government to tackle it, subsequent unemployment and the numerous corruption scandals affecting Spanish political parties have served these last few years as precursors for the birth of numerous social movements and political parties demanding deep change in the way politics is understood. The answers Podemos gave to these requests, based on a constitutional reform that suited the vast majority of them, linked the party with the new social and political spirit.