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...Mariano Rivera, the former New York Yankees pitcher, joined him in the White House press room....
...“Fortunately, Franco’s dictatorship ended 44 years ago,” tweeted Albert Rivera, Ciudadanos leader....
...However Mr Rivera changed his stance when Mr Sánchez used votes from Catalan separatist parties to become prime minister last year, ousting Mariano Rajoy in a parliamentary censure motion....
...The Socialists have presided over a minority government since ousting Mariano Rajoy’s People’s party in a confidence vote last year but called snap elections in February after failing to pass a budget....
...Mr Rivera went into the election having vetoed any coalition with PSOE....
...Catalan separatists parties supported Mr Sánchez in a no-confidence vote that ousted former PP prime minister Mariano Rajoy in June, and his dialogue with them has drawn harsh criticism from parties on the...
...The debate was punctuated with theatrical moments from Albert Rivera of the economically liberal Ciudadanos party, which has faded in recent polls....
...Then last year he seized the opportunity to eject the PP government of Mariano Rajoy in a parliamentary censure motion over a corruption scandal....
...This has a good deal to do with the decision by the socialists to stay in power without calling an election after PP prime minister Mariano Rajoy was ousted in June 2018 after his defeat on a confidence...
...He took power in June last year after ousting centre-right premier Mariano Rajoy in a confidence vote....
...Albert Rivera, leader of the ostensibly liberal centre-right Ciudadanos (Citizens) party, lurched recklessly right in a bid — which looks to have failed — to supplant the PP and become prime minister....
...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....
...The Catalan parties had helped bring Mr Sánchez to power last June, when he ousted former PP prime minister Mariano Rajoy in a no-confidence vote....
...In Mr Casado’s first national election as party leader on April 28, nine months after succeeding former prime minister Mariano Rajoy, the PP is virtually guaranteed to post its worst electoral performance...
...Mr Sánchez formed a minority government last June when Mariano Rajoy of the Popular party lost a confidence vote following a corruption scandal....
...Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy will face a vote of confidence in his leadership on Friday, a showdown that threatens to end six years of centre-right government in Madrid and intensifies the political...
...Albert Rivera of the liberal Ciudadanos, an anti-nationalist party launched in Catalonia, slammed the talks as “the image of a humiliation”....
...snap general election on April 28 was precipitated by the fall of the minority Socialist (PSOE) government of Pedro Sanchez, which lasted barely nine months after toppling the centre-right government of Mariano...
...Albert Rivera, leader of Ciudadanos, this week charged that the Sánchez government looked more like an “electoral committee”....
...Spain’s parliament starts a formal debate on Thursday over a vote of no-confidence against prime minister Mariano Rajoy....
...In a blow to Mariano Rajoy, Spanish prime minister, the court also fined the PP €245,000 because it benefited from the illegal scheme, with the court ruling calling it a “profit-seeking participant”....
...Mr Sanchez took power in June following a vote of no-confidence against the centre-right Mariano Rajoy, then prime minister....
...Albert Rivera, the leader of the liberal Ciudadanos party, on Thursday labelled this a “Frankenstein government” because of its lack of unifying views....
...Mariano Rajoy, prime minister, this month attacked Ciudadanos as a party of opportunists with no “clear ideas” about any issue who are “constantly revising their principles”....
...Under the PP’s former prime minister Mariano Rajoy, who led Spain for seven years until June, the party tended to downplay the immigration issue....
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