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Albert Rivera, the young leader of the centrist party Ciudadanos, yesterday resigned after the disastrous result Sunday, November 10 in the Spanish legislative elections.
With our correspondent in Madrid, Diane Cambon
The Spanish legislative elections made their first political victim. Albert Rivera, who had headed Ciudadanos for 13 years, threw in the towel by giving up his position as MP, but also the presidency of the party. The ballot cost the centrist party dearly: some 2.5 million fewer votes than in previous elections and 47 seats lost.
Ciudadanos, who wanted to break the hegemony of the Conservatives of the People's Party, has almost disappeared from the political spectrum. The formation went downhill in hell. Third political force of the country last April, it is now in sixth position. It could however have rubbed shoulders with the power by allying with socialists of the PSOE, but the resolution of the Catalan conflict prevented any alliance with the left. Albert Rivera rejects any kind of dialogue with the separatists.
Calculation error, political strategy, Albert Rivera and his training pays the price of having changed too often political speech. Tired, many of his constituents turned to the traditional People's Party, others - and there would be many according to the polls - preferred the authoritarian and sharp discourse of the young far-right party Vox who became the third political force of the country.