The political and institutional representation crisis that Podemos is going through has serious economic consequences for the party, which has become accustomed to living in precariousness and lack of resources. The purple formation has chained four consecutive years in the red and has accumulated more than 7.8 million euros in losses during this period. All this is having obvious effects on the sustainability of the organization, the main one being that it has seen half of its assets vanish compared to what it declared in 2021 and what it claims to have in 2025.
All these data appear published in the income statements on Podemos’ transparency portal and have been sent and audited by the Court of Auditors without any reservations. That is, these are the official numbers of the purples and have been accepted as valid.
Diving into them, and beyond the specific data for 2025 – the last year for which there is complete information – the relevant thing is to broaden the view on these accounts and see the trend in which the party has been since its political crisis worsened and, consequently, its continued loss of institutional representation. Today the organization led by Ione Belarra is at its lowest since its expansion across Spain in 2015. It has four deputies in Congress, two MEPs, and only six regional deputies – three in Extremadura, two in the Region of Murcia, and one in the Balearic Islands. Only in this first electoral cycle from late 2025 to early 2026 has it lost three deputies in Andalusia, one in Aragon, and one in Castile and León; in addition to the departure of Podemos’ only representative within a regional government, the third vice president of Navarra, Begoña Alfaro. Conclusion: it only has seats in Congress, Europe, and three communities.
Podemos is in a vicious circle. Fewer votes mean fewer seats and, therefore, fewer subsidies and income to operate. Which means having less staff, fewer resources to do politics, and living stressed to pay the bills.
Podemos managed up to 11.1 million in public money in 2021 – not including what it received through private channels. Today the exact amount it receives is 2,599,325 euros. This allowed it to spend 12.5 million in 2021 and today barely exceeds 4.1 million. It is a drastic reduction in every sense and sums up its situation.
But in a party, as in a company or a family economy, it is about balancing the accounts at the end of the month or year. That what is spent is not more than what is earned, because otherwise financial problems and debts begin. And that adjustment is what Podemos has not been able to make. 2021 was its last positive year (438,448 euros). From then on, it has chained four years of red numbers. They were 388,735 euros in 2022, 4,687,599 in 2023, 2,146,791 in 2024, and 634,453 in 2025. The sum amounts to a staggering 7,857,579 euros in losses. An immense hole in just four years.
The consequences are obvious. Just as would happen in any family’s economy. When the salary is not enough to pay expenses, one is forced to dip into savings, even if it hurts, or to take out loans or sell assets if necessary. Podemos has drawn on its net assets to face this crisis and has taken money from the “surpluses” of “previous years,” as stated in the balance sheets.
This has precipitated that Podemos’ “net assets” have practically halved in just five years. Where there were 20.2 million euros in 2021, there are now 10.7 million. The party is burning through what it had accumulated to sustain its internal machinery.
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It is a reduction in net assets that has been quantified in this way in the official balance sheets of the purple formation: 20.2 million in 2021, 18.4 million in 2022, 13.7 million in 2023, 11.5 million in 2024, and 10.7 million in 2025.
In this journey through the precariousness that Podemos faces, there is one figure that speaks very well of the party and two other figures that, on the contrary, perfectly explain the very delicate political situation in which the organization finds itself.
Starting with the positive, Podemos is a party that maintains a very solid and committed network of members. It has lost money, votes, or deputies, but the militants remain steadfast and committed, contributing what they can. This is the case with the fees they pay. Due to the collapse in income, it is increasingly important every year because it maintains a stability that is very positive. In 2021, Podemos earned 1.3 million from its members and now, four years later, the figure exceeds one million. It is a very small drop compared to the fact that income has collapsed by 10 million during this time.
As for the other two negative data points, Podemos received 1.8 million from its public officials in 2021. Today, due to its meager institutional representation, the purples barely collect 474,000 euros. The collapse began in 2023, when it went from 1.6 million to less than one.
With money problems and forced to make adjustments, Podemos, which was forced to carry out a workforce reduction in 2023 to survive, dedicated 7.8 million euros to spending on technical and political staff. However, the lean times have led the organization to drastically reduce its payroll and now it only invests 2.2 million in workers.
The whole situation in general, logically, means that the party juggles day by day to do politics and now measures in detail where it puts the money, because it is tight.
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