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...On Sunday night, almost all of the prime minister’s opponents, led by Pablo Casado, the PP leader, criticised Mr Sánchez for triggering the elections. “Spain has had a bad result,” Mr Casado said....
...Pablo Casado, the centre-right Popular party leader, and Albert Rivera, who on Monday resigned as head of the fiercely anti-Catalan nationalist Ciudadanos party, are also to blame for the far-right’s surge...
...In the previous parliament Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera could have formed a coalition with the Socialists, giving them a majority; in 2016 they had agreed a joint programme of government....
...Mr Casado has moderated his shrill tone since leading the PP to its worst defeat in April....
...Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera, who supported a 2016 premiership bid by Mr Sánchez, has vetoed such a coalition because of the Socialist leader’s alleged willingness to accommodate separatist demands....
...Critics, especially PP leader Pablo Casado, have nonetheless labelled him a compulsive liar, a criminal and a friend to terrorists....
...Albert Rivera, leader of the pro-market Ciudadanos party, which fiercely opposes Catalan independence, said Mr Sánchez had to “finish with Torra” and apply article 155 of the Spanish constitution — which...
...warned that Ciudadanos, the economically liberal party that is the closest to the centre of the trio of parties on the right, could cut a deal to govern with the socialists, even though Ciudadanos leader Albert...
...The debate was punctuated with theatrical moments from Albert Rivera of the economically liberal Ciudadanos party, which has faded in recent polls....
...As Albert Rivera whipped up supporters at a rally ahead of Spain’s election next month, he told them that the Ciudadanos party he leads was part of a fight for the integrity of the nation....
...Mr Casado, Mr Rivera and Mr Abascal have all called for the suspension of regional autonomy in Catalonia....
...Mr Casado appeared as shallow and shrill in a campaign that has brought the PP to its knees, losing half its seats....
...To staunch the losses, the Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera ruled out a coalition with Mr Sánchez and aligned it with the two other parties to his right....
...Mr Casado provocatively calls it a new Popular Front, the 1936-39 Republican government against which Franco launched his crusade....
...Albert Rivera, Ciudadanos leader, said it was a “good day” and warned against offering Mr Sánchez a chance to return to the Moncloa after a “failed legislature.”...
...But the Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera repeatedly ruled out a tie-up with the Socialists during the campaign and his relationship with Mr Sánchez is strained....
...Albert Rivera, the Ciudadanos leader, rules out any alliance with Socialists....
...Albert Rivera’s snub seemed to confirm his ambitions: to lead the opposition and eventually displace Mr Sánchez as prime minister....
...Albert Rivera, leader of Spain’s liberal Ciudadanos party, called it “an intolerable offence to the Spanish people”....
...Pablo Casado, the new young leader of the PP, has raised hackles by calling for a rightist front to defeat the “Popular Front” — a reference to the republican government that preceded the civil war....
...Albert Rivera of the liberal Ciudadanos, an anti-nationalist party launched in Catalonia, slammed the talks as “the image of a humiliation”....
...Pablo Casado, leader of the centre-right opposition People’s party (PP) labelled him a “traitor” and a “felon”....
...However, Albert Rivera, head of the liberal Ciudadanos party who visited Ceuta on Monday, said the government’s more lenient policies had attracted immigrants, and called for the government to add more border...
...“There are reasonable doubts about your doctoral thesis,” said Albert Rivera, leader of the liberal Ciudadanos party, in parliament on Wednesday. “Why are you hiding it?”...
...Albert Rivera, leader of Ciudadanos, this week charged that the Sánchez government looked more like an “electoral committee”....
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