Now, Pedro Sanchez' new best friends are the once-radical movement, born out of anti-austerity "indignados" protests, who have enabled him to retain the premiership and joined him since January in Spain's first coalition government in decades.
Once avowedly anti-establishment Podemos leaders stood in the front row to applaud the King of Spain in parliament this month and sit down weekly with members of Sanchez' Socialist Party at meetings nicknamed "matins" for morning prayers.
