Pablo Iglesias loses his job at the university

Pablo Iglesias, former leader of Podemos and former vice president of the Spanish government, will no longer teach Political Science at the Complutense University of Madrid. Iglesias had been teaching there for three years, but now he's out of work: he failed to secure any of the associate professor positions that had been put out for bid.

It has been the same co-founder of Podemos who broke the news through X, where he explained that two months ago the positions for associate professor were put out to tender and that he applied for three of them, but the court considered that there were "several candidates with better professional experience outside of teaching to teach these subjects."

Although Iglesias acknowledges that he has not yet completed the process, he has indicated that the winners of the positions have already been defined by the scores given by the court. The former secretary general of Podemos won an associate position in 2022, and assures that he has "enormously" enjoyed teaching, that it has been an experience with which he has continued to train and has met "exceptional students": "Being a professor of politics is my main vocation and I will try, as always, to convert frustration." He also took a dig at the court and accused it of valuing his professional experience and his CV with a much lower score compared to three years ago.

"I would have loved to continue teaching at a faculty that is very special to me, but that's the way it is," said Iglesias, who will continue to lead the Higher Diploma in Media Education and Political Communication at the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and will prepare a virtual course on political and strategic analysis aimed at Spain. Since leaving politics in 2021, Iglesias has tried other projects in addition to teaching: for example, with the creation of the Red Channel, the opening of the Garibaldi Tavern or the publication of the book Intimate enemies.