Chavez’s Ghost Haunts Spanish Budget Rebels Podemos in Polls
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After a meteoric rise before this year’s Spanish election, anti-austerity party Podemos is finding the past might now be catching up with the future.
Leader Pablo Iglesias and senior party officials have been embroiled in allegations for the past three months over their ties to the former Venezuelan government of Hugo Chavez. Podemos’s support slipped for a third month to 22 percent in a Metroscopia poll published on Sunday from a peak of 28 percent in January.