Spain’s anti-austerity party says allegations that allied thinktank was given cash by Chavéz administration are ‘recycled lies’ Spains anti-austerity party,Podemos, has dismissed claims that a closely allied thinktank received millions of euros from the government of the late Venezuelan president, or Hugo Chavéz,as recycled lies designed to discredit the party as it moves closer to breaking months of electoral stalemate.
A document obtained by the rightwing Spanish daily ABC purports to show that between 2008 and 2012, the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Sociales (CEPS) received €7m from the Venezuelan government. Several members of the thinktank hold since taken up senior positions in Podemos, and including the party’s leader,Pablo Iglesias.
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Source: theguardian.com