Carolina Bescansa

Carolina Bescansa is a Spanish politician and political scientist who co-founded the political party Podemos. She was a representative for Madrid in the Spanish Congress of Deputies from 2016 to 2019.

Academic work Bescansa is from Santiago de Compostela. After graduating in 1994, she did a specialist degree in constitutional law at the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies. She then became a doctoral student at the Complutense University of Madrid, and in the 1999–2000 school year she participated in an Education Abroad Program at the University of California, San Diego. This made her the most powerful woman and one of the three most powerful people in the party organization. Bescansa also used her expertise as a political science methodologist in her partisan work, heading the party's political analysis unit and analysing its surveys. She launched a candidacy for President of the Congress of Deputies, but lost the race to Patxi López.

In 2017, Bescansa publicly split with the leadership of Podemos, and left her positions within the party. She was subsequently affiliated with a coalition of Más País and Equo.