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...Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado has led multiple Wagners at El Real; the cast includes Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley and South Korean bass Jongmin Park....
...She lived there full-time with her husband, Thomas Pablo Croquet (aka Thomas Mars), lead singer of the indie pop band Phoenix, and their two daughters, Romy and Cosima, until they moved back to New York...
...Lorenzo Bernaldo de Quirós, president of Freemarket, a Madrid-based consultancy, forecast the government would go ahead with the tax even if the ECB criticised it. “They don’t care....
...Soon afterwards, Pablo Casado, the PP’s 41-year-old then leader, was pushed out following months of a debilitating internal party feud....
...“It isn’t really a case of Marta taking over from Pablo,” adds Critchlow. “Marta’s role is not executive, while Pablo was executive chair.”...
...But Tuesday’s announcement took markets by surprise, although the group said it marked the completion of a “generational handover process” that began in 2011, when Pablo Isla, the outgoing executive chair...
...In a recent FT interview, Pablo Casado, leader of the centre-right opposition People’s party, depicted the government’s preoccupations as out-of-sync with contemporary concerns....
...“We feel defenceless,” said Mr Rivera....
...The couple had two sons, Daniel and Pablo, and lived among a milieu of Latin intellectuals in Santo Domingo and Washington DC....
...“This crisis came to a country that was already deeply polarised and it has deepened the divisions between left and right,” said Lorenzo Bernaldo de Quirós, president of Freemarket, a Madrid-based consultancy...
...“There is a lot of last-minute manoeuvring because everyone wants to show they have done what they can to avoid new elections,” said Pablo Simon, professor of politics at Madrid’s Carlos III university....
...A major reason for Vox’s rise, aside from Catalan nationalism fuelling Spanish nationalism, is the way Mr Rivera and his callow PP rival, Pablo Casado, have preferred to play sorcerer’s apprentice rather...
...Pablo Hernández de Cos, governor of Spain’s central bank, has been warning about the risks of simply extending more loans to get through the crisis, which could render companies insolvent....
...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...
...He has learnt his tricks and his patter from Eric, who before the war performed on stage as “Lorenzo”. Ronnie stands next to a card table....
...The current shock may be “symmetric,” said Lorenzo Codogno of LC Macro Advisors, “but the policy response might be asymmetric because of the different fiscal space in different countries.”...
...Before the result was announced Mr Sánchez accused Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias of prioritising his personal ambitions over policies, saying “99.9 per cent” of their conversations had focused on government...
...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...
...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....
...“Without a government, they can’t pass some of their plans, like raising taxes or reversing labour reform,” said Lorenzo Bernaldo de Quirós, chairman of Freemarket, a Madrid economic consultancy....
...Instead, Mr Rivera tacked to the right, hoping to become the main alternative to Mr Sánchez. On Monday, he resigned....
...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....
...But Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera has ruled it out categorically and there seems to be too much bad blood between him and Mr Sánchez. In any case, Mr Rivera is too hardline on the Catalan issue....
...On Sunday Pablo Iglesias, leader of Podemos, reiterated his desire to form part of a Socialist-led government....
...Pablo Simón, professor of politics at Madrid’s Carlos III university, said a veto against Mr Sánchez was “risky but rational” because Ciudadanos was losing many more voters to the right than to the left....
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