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...This option, which has already been tried once, in 2016, is the least likely, due to the animosity between Mr Sánchez and Albert Rivera, the leader of Ciudadanos....
...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....
...“We’re not taking advantage of this period of expansion,” said José Ignacio Conde Ruiz, a professor of economics at Madrid’s Complutense University....
...Albert Rivera, leader of Ciudadanos, this week charged that the Sánchez government looked more like an “electoral committee”....
...“The government is clearly weak, but it has been making mistakes as well,” says Ignacio Jurado, analyst and partner at Quantio, a political consultancy....
...Albert Rivera, leader of the liberal Ciudadanos party, this week said: “I am asking the suicidal driver to stop the car, put on the brakes and get out because Catalonia does not deserve confrontations.”...
...Recent polls show Mr Rivera is now Spain’s highest rated national political leader....
...“Mr Macri’s strategy is not risk-free,” warns Ignacio Labaqui of Medley Global Advisors, a risk consultancy....
...To complicate matters further, Albert Rivera, the Ciudadanos leader, has said he will not back Mr Rajoy as prime minister but would rather abstain....
...‘Exploring Utopia’ (2015) by John Fernandes and Andrew Graham-Yooll is published by Aurelia Rivera Libros...
...The other is Ciudadanos, a centrist party headed by Albert Rivera, a youthful Catalan lawyer....
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