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...To April 23, whitney.org...
...In the 2004 and 2008 elections, their combined share of the vote was above 80 per cent, but by the time of the April and November 2019 elections it had fallen to below 50 per cent....
...She bought a flat off-plan in Brentford, west London, two years ago with a 20 per cent deposit and must pay the balance of the £1.1mn purchase price when it is completed in April....
...After Diego Rivera, the Mexican artist, decided he couldn’t afford it, it was bought in the same year by Salomón Hale, a Polish collector living in Mexico....
...SCP is returning to Milan after an absence of five years, with owner Sheridan Coakley presenting a number of designs that include a reworking of the classic Windsor chair by Grant Wilkinson and Teresa Rivera...
...Lime and chilli are Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, the “turbulent twosome” of Mexican cooking. Black pudding and egg are Terence Stamp and Julie Christie....
...Mariano Rivera, the former New York Yankees pitcher, joined him in the White House press room....
...US sales leapt 60 per cent in the four weeks to April 25 versus the same period last year, beating all other spirits, even though their sales also jumped, according to market research company Nielsen....
...Meanwhile, the traditionally conservative People’s party, which Ciudadanos came close to overtaking in the previous, April 2019 election, has mounted a mild recovery....
...Mr Rivera instead saw his chance to overtake the PP and become the standard-bearer of the right. He came close in April but Ciudadanos was almost obliterated on Sunday, reduced from 57 to 10 seats....
...Carlos Abrams-Rivera, who runs the company’s US business, cautioned that growth was unlikely to be so strong in the second half of the year....
...Spain could have had a reforming, social democratic coalition government had Mr Sánchez and Mr Rivera joined forces following April’s vote. It will go down as a historic missed opportunity....
...The people in the middle get urinated on,” says Mr Rivera, the state senator....
...The biggest failure is Mr Rivera’s. He steered his supposedly centrist party to the right, ruling out a coalition with Mr Sánchez after April’s election. It was a huge mistake....
...“The Spanish people spoke very clearly in April, but [the other main parties] did not take it into account,” Mr Sánchez said after the King’s decision was made public....
...In April’s election Albert Rivera, Ciudadanos’ leader, came within 220,000 votes — less than a percentage point — of unseating the PP as the country’s second biggest party....
...Instead, Mr Rivera tacked to the right, hoping to become the main alternative to Mr Sánchez. On Monday, he resigned....
...In April’s election the socialists won 123 seats in parliament, while Ciudadanos won 57 — which combined would be enough for a majority in the 350-seat chamber....
...“Fortunately, Franco’s dictatorship ended 44 years ago,” tweeted Albert Rivera, Ciudadanos leader....
...Albert Rivera, Ciudadanos’ leader, resigned on Monday. The poll was triggered by the failure of Pedro Sánchez, caretaker prime minister, to win parliament’s backing to form a government....
...“On April 28, we choose what Spain we want: the unwavering Spain of constitutional principles that no one will ever destroy,” Mr Rivera said in Majadahonda, a wealthy commuter town near Madrid....
...The Valley of the Fallen is officially a memorial to the war dead on both sides and contains the remains of 33,000 people — but the only marked graves are those of Franco and José Antonio Primo de Rivera...
...In the first parliamentary questions since the April 28 poll was announced last week, Mr Sánchez attacked Albert Rivera, leader of the liberal Ciudadanos and former ally, accusing him of moving his party...
...Mr Rivera went into the election having vetoed any coalition with PSOE....
...The socialist party of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez emerged as overall winner, but with three fewer seats than in the last vote in April....
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