The former Vice President of the Government and former Secretary General of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, has recognized that he left politics totally exhausted after running in the 2021 Madrid regional elections, despite considering that at certain moments he played a historical role: "I no longer scored as many three-pointers as before and I had to think about retiring and doing other kinds of things."
In an interview published this Sunday in 'El Periódico de Catalunya' and collected by Europa Press, Iglesias has explained that abandoning institutional politics was "like getting out of jail" and has pointed out that the main reason for his departure was the enormous violence that, he maintains, he received.
"It's something people don't believe. I didn't like it humanly. I didn't like being general secretary of Podemos. I didn't like being vice president of the Government. I did it as best as possible, I learned a lot, but for me it was a vital situation in which I was not happy," he stated.
When addressing her relationship with the second vice-president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, she has assured that "it is obvious" that she was wrong, since she considers that Díaz understood that her own project involved ending Podemos and, in her opinion, Sumar "was already born dead".
Iglesias, who in 2022 launched the media outlet 'Canal Red', has argued that journalism has become the main political space today and has established a critical parallel between both fields: "There is a lot of corruption in politics, but even more so in journalism", he stressed.