Podemos Euskadi reports attacks on two party offices in the Spanish Basque Country. According to the regional branch, an office in San Sebastián was pelted with eggs. In Errenteria the party discovered graffiti at its premises on the morning of 14 November. The face of its lead candidate Irene Montero had also been crossed out in a picture there, the Europa Press news agency reported, citing Podemos.
The party said the egg-throwing incident in San Sebastián had taken place a few days earlier. A word in Basque had also been written on the office in Errenteria. The regional branch gave no details of possible perpetrators in the agency report. It is not known whether the incidents are connected.
Podemos Euskadi also reported damage to election posters since the start of the campaign. Some had been torn down, while others had been ripped up. In Errenteria, the party said, Montero’s face had also been crossed out on an election poster and defaced with the word “Nazi”. The branch described the incidents as attacks and said it would not be silenced by them.
The accounts come from the party. The agency report provides no independent confirmation of the individual acts of damage or who was responsible for them. The regional branch’s political assessment should therefore be distinguished from the reported incidents.
The report comes during the campaign for Spain’s Parliamentary election on 29 November 2026. Both chambers, the Congress of Deputies and the Senate, will be newly elected on that day. The date was set in early October when both chambers were dissolved.
Montero is standing for Podemos as a candidate for the office of president of the government. The party and the left-wing alliance Frente Amplio launched their election campaigns separately in Madrid on 12 November. For Gipuzkoa, the province in which both San Sebastián and Errenteria are located, Maite Gartzia heads the Podemos list for the Congress of Deputies. She is also a member of Errenteria’s municipal government.
Podemos Euskadi said it had also been subjected to persistent attacks on social media since the parliamentary election was called. The agency report gave no further details about these allegations.
Editor: Mira Cadena (Article created with AI assistance).