Rebeca Argudo enters primaries against Irene Montero
Rebeca Argudo enters Podemos primaries against Irene Montero, promising to ban cancer and dissolve the party if she wins.
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Argudo enters the Podemos primaries and promises to dissolve it
A cat hugging a cucumber was the trigger. Journalist Rebeca Argudo put the condition in writing on a tweet: if that image outperformed the party's official publication in 'likes,' she would run in its primaries. And on September 15, 2026, she announced her candidacy for the Unidas Podemos primaries against Irene Montero, with an impossible program: banning cancer, making happiness mandatory, and starting the weekend on Thursday. And a final promise: if she wins, she dissolves Podemos.
This is not a typical campaign. It is the literal reading of the open primaries that Montero, Member of the European Parliament and candidate for the upcoming general elections, placed on the table, according to the thread's account: anyone can run and anyone can vote.
The candidate's program
Everything fits into one formula: 'for good and against bad.' From this come proposals such as banning cancer by decree, making happiness mandatory, or closing the week on Thursday. It is the old tradition of taking participation promises literally and returning them in a mirror.
And it has resonance. Some argue that a handful of pranksters willing to laugh could sway the outcome of primaries without membership filters. Opposing this is another argument: the problem is not the joke, but the design of a process sold as open and then filled with loopholes.
How voting works in the Podemos primaries
According to the procedure detailed by one participant in the thread, the rules are not those of a free poll. The voter must register in the party census providing their DNI or NIE, address, email, mobile phone, and territorial scope. Afterwards, they must verify their identity with a document. Deadlines are tight: registration at least 10 days before voting begins and verification no later than 5 days before. The vote is electronic, through the Participa portal.
Open, yes. With loopholes.
The detail that is jarring is the clock. The news of the candidacy was published at 05:25 in the morning, and by 12:04 it was already updated with 19 comments accumulated in the original piece. How much joke a regulation can withstand is, at this hour, an unanswered question.
A cat hugging a cucumber was the trigger. Journalist Rebeca Argudo put the condition in writing on a tweet: if that image outperformed the party's official publication in 'likes,' she would run in its primaries. And on September 15, 2026, she announced her candidacy for the Unidas Podemos primaries against Irene Montero, with an impossible program: banning cancer, making happiness mandatory, and starting the weekend on Thursday. And a final promise: if she wins, she dissolves Podemos.
This is not a typical campaign. It is the literal reading of the open primaries that Montero, Member of the European Parliament and candidate for the upcoming general elections, placed on the table, according to the thread's account: anyone can run and anyone can vote.
The candidate's program
Everything fits into one formula: 'for good and against bad.' From this come proposals such as banning cancer by decree, making happiness mandatory, or closing the week on Thursday. It is the old tradition of taking participation promises literally and returning them in a mirror.
And it has resonance. Some argue that a handful of pranksters willing to laugh could sway the outcome of primaries without membership filters. Opposing this is another argument: the problem is not the joke, but the design of a process sold as open and then filled with loopholes.
How voting works in the Podemos primaries
According to the procedure detailed by one participant in the thread, the rules are not those of a free poll. The voter must register in the party census providing their DNI or NIE, address, email, mobile phone, and territorial scope. Afterwards, they must verify their identity with a document. Deadlines are tight: registration at least 10 days before voting begins and verification no later than 5 days before. The vote is electronic, through the Participa portal.
Open, yes. With loopholes.
The detail that is jarring is the clock. The news of the candidacy was published at 05:25 in the morning, and by 12:04 it was already updated with 19 comments accumulated in the original piece. How much joke a regulation can withstand is, at this hour, an unanswered question.
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