Podemos Asturias () is the regional branch of Podemos in Asturias, Spain. History Beginning and first elections The Podemos movement was officially launched on 16 January 2014 in the Teatro del Barrio in the Lavapiés neighbourhood of Madrid, with a press conference attended by hundreds of people. One of the organisers was Asturian economist Segundo González, who will later became member of the Congress of Deputies. As a result, in Asturias the formation of one of the 'circles' in which the party is organised at a territorial level began to take shape. The first steps of Podemos in the region were taken from the social centre 'La Madreña', in Oviedo. One of the key figures in this centre was the future candidate for regional President Emilio León. The future regional deputy, Daniel Ripa, also participated in the organisation. After the official launch, the focus shifted to the organisation of the political campaign for the 2014 European elections. In Podemos' list for the election there were two important Asturias' personalities, Tania González (number six) and above-mentioned Daniel Ripa (number eleven). After the spectacular results of the formation in the European elections, winning five seats, and in which in the case of Asturias, it managed to be the 3rd most voted party, ahead of United Left. Avilesian Tania González was elected as MEP after the resignation of one of the candidates ahead of her on the list. After the election González claimed that "this is just the beginning" and about the result in Asturias, in an interview in La Nueva España, she claimed that in the region "citizens are especially dissatisfied with the corruption scandals and the way of doing politics of the traditional parties [PP and PSOE].". After the good results in the European elections, the number of militants increased considerably, reaching more than 4,000 supporters in Asturias in August 2014, which would be 8,000 in mid-November, making Asturias the region with the most members per capita. 2015 regional elections The next elections in Asturias would be the local and regional elections of 2015, for which the party was beginning to prepare. In the local elections, the party renounced to present itself and opted for the 'circles' of each municipality, thirty as of August 2014, to form their own candidacies, which in the Asturian case would bear the name of Somos ('We are') + 'name of the municipality'. At the regional