Hemeroteca.Albert Rivera resigns as leader of Ciudadanos and announces that he is leaving politics after the debacle in the elections
Budgets. Citizens urge Sánchez to choose: accounts "conditioned by those who want to break Spain" or "for all Spaniards"
After almost a year of silence, Albert Rivera makes self-criticism and speaks openly about his political career.
From its beginnings, from its zenith, which touched in April 2019, and from its "political death", when in November of last year its party sank from the 57 seats it won in the spring general elections to 10 a those who fell in the November 10 elections.
Rivera reflects on the reasons for the collapse of his party, what he calls his "political death" in the book
A free citizen
, published by the
Espasa
publishing house
and goes on sale today.
The liberal leader concludes that it was precisely his offer of a pact to the PSOE to avoid the second elections, carried out in the middle of the electoral pre-campaign, which made him lose 47 deputies.
"Most of our voters in April supported us to win Sánchez, not to make him president," he says in his book, which is presented this Tuesday at the
Casa de América
in
Madrid
.
In his opinion, "it is evident that raising the white flag of the pact with PSOE and PP in an entrenched country cost me political death."
This was his main error, he reflects, the one that led him to the electoral collapse: "Publicly open one's hand to negotiate state reforms" with the PSOE in exchange for unblocking the situation after 10-N.
Albert Rivera reaffirms himself in this way in his 'no is no' to Pedro Sánchez, who he held since February 2019 and practically until the call for repeated elections on November 10.
This veto to negotiate with the PSOE was the one that led to a second election, although Rivera assures that Sánchez's plan was to go to those elections from the beginning, with the intention of improving results.
The main beneficiaries of the electoral fall of Cs on 10N were the PP and Vox, although their rise was insufficient to close the way to a coalition government of the PSOE and United We Can.
According to the analysis he makes in his book, "in a context of increasing polarization and sectarianism and with Vox's populism growing to the right," talking about a possible agreement with Pedro Sánchez "generated many doubts and suspicions in a large part of the electorate. "who had chosen the 'orange' ballot in April.
In the book, the former Cs leader also points out another "glaring" mistake.
And it is not having realized at the time that "Sánchez and his environment had drawn up a strategy since the beginning of the summer to go to second elections."
Given this situation, reflects the now practicing lawyer, Citizens should have "made it clear" that the leader of the PSOE did not want any agreement with Cs.
In the book, Rivera recounts that he had been contemplating the option of resigning for several months, as he did on November 11, 2019 after summoning an extraordinary Executive of Cs.
In that conclave held behind closed doors, Rivera burst into tears at the beginning of his speech and confessed that he couldn't take it anymore.
And that he was leaving.
The entire Executive broke into applause after the announcement of her resignation advanced by EL MUNDO.
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