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- Anti-austerity group wins 69 seats to disrupt Spanish elite
- Iglesias led turnaround with performance in TV debates
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Pablo Iglesias, a 37-year-old political scientist from Madrid, spent Saturday watching the new Star Wars movie.
Unlike millions of others around the world who did the same thing last weekend, Iglesias is the leader of his own band of rebels, the anti-austerity party Podemos, and on Sunday he took a big step toward vanquishing his enemy.