Podemos reached government only after losing two million voters and its deputy leader

Evidence

His political triumph came at high cost: on its way to executive power, Podemos lost 2 million voters, experienced harsh internal tensions leading to the departure of its second-in-command, and gave up on many of its initial aspirations. … With the ebb of his populist tide, Iglesias found himself as the last man standing, the lucky survivor of a shipwreck, too isolated and exhausted to conquer the new land whose shores he had miraculously reached. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 160

Categorization

• XREF: Concretely instantiates the Pasokification and populist-downscaling pattern the reader has tracked across Syriza and other cases.