Back in 2015, when Podemos was Podemos, Pablo Iglesias was Pablo Iglesias and the party's address was a pineapple of friends, young and agressive about to touch the sky with their fingers, a veteran member of the Citizen Council made the following reflection. "My wife says that as long as you don't have family and children, people will see you a bit like teenagers without responsibilities and will not vote for you to govern." At that time, Carolina Bescansa's baby - almost five years old - was the only child of Podemos. Four years after that wise suggestion, We could put in a nursery. Pablo Iglesias and Irene Montero have three children. Alberto Garzón and Ramón Espinar, one each. Tania Sánchez has just given birth to her first child who has brought a match under her arm: Errejón's game.

In these rugged four years, the leaders of Podemos have gone from being children to being parents. And that is the most transcendent vital transformation that human beings experience. The reflection of that father of the Citizen Council made a lot of sense. Children are firmly tied to the earth and reality. They make us mature people permanently. Something quite necessary for anyone, much more if you aspire to lead a political party or a country. And the gang of Podemos - in its successful political beginnings - was made up of young professors who gave themselves an air to Peter Pan. Already well in their thirties, they were reluctant to grow, they seemed to devote their time to playing the revolution on the Play or with your students in the classroom.

This happy journey from children to parents has coincided with the fading of a party that aspired to the greatest and dangerously approaches the chassis, divided into smaller and smaller pieces.

Pablo Iglesias, to whom the ghosts of his recent past are appearing all at once, has participated in two public events this week. In one - the presentation of the novel Cal viva by Daniel Serrano - he did it as the rebel son who sat in front of Father Juan Luis Cebrián to sing his forty.

Only that Pablo Iglesias is no longer the rebel son nor has he achieved his goal of ending the PSOE, symbolically the father of the Podemos generation. Pablo Iglesias is now a father who goes with his daughter to the demonstration against climate change. And there is nothing more to compare his face in the two photos of the week to realize that Pablo Iglesias is much happier as a biological father than as a political son.

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