Overview
- Provisional results give Pisarello 68.6% (1,046 votes) to Bob Pop’s 27% (412), with 4.4% blank ballots, and formal proclamation is scheduled for Monday.
- He will head a man–woman tandem with councilor Carolina Recio under the party’s new format, in a vote that drew 1,525 participants from a roll of up to 9,000.
- Under party rules, the winning duo will designate places 3 to 5 on the list, while positions 6 to 15 will be chosen in open primaries.
- Pisarello intends to keep his seat in Spain’s Congress during the campaign; if he later vacates it, María Pozuelo would take the seat, potentially giving Podem five deputies and its own parliamentary group.
- The result sets up efforts to build a broad left alliance in Barcelona, with calls to engage ERC and the CUP as Podem Catalunya signals a separate run in the 2027 municipal race.