INTRODUCTION
“In a normal democracy, should the head of state be elected based on his blood, or on the votes?” questioned populist leader Pablo Iglesias (Iglesias, as cited in “Pablo Iglesias of PODEMOS”). On June 2nd 2014, Juan Carlos, the King of Spain, publically announced that he was abdicating the Spanish, and his intention for Felipe, his son, after thirty nine years since the demise of Franco in 1975, made Spaniards quite happy. That same night in Puerta del Sol, various grassroots movements sprung up in Spain’s capital, a time referred to as the “spring of the Indignants and Continue reading...