ABSTRACT
This chapter concentrates on the discourse of Podemos in Spain and the interplay between populism and Euroscepticism therein. The discourse analysis explores primarily two dimensions. First, the articulation of a populist discourse, attending to its main elements: the specific representations of a popular identity (the people) mobilized by Podemos and its antagonistic articulation against the elites. Second, the representations, argumentation schemes, and problematizations of Europe and the European Union (EU); and finally, the interplay between these two dimensions. The findings show that the power through discourse of Podemos is activated during the early times of the party advancing novel representations and problematizations of the EU. However, the party turned to the classic representation of Europe and the EU in its subsequent stages and its populist discourse declined.
