Before any other, the resignation of Albert Rivera - who leaves the seat, party leadership and active politics - deserves ethical consideration. For the anomalous thing that results in this country to assume political responsibilities before an electoral failure. But also for what he says about the integrity of a leader who did not reach politics to stay in it, parasitizing the institutions like so many, but guided by the civic responsibility of contributing to the good management of public affairs, trying to overcome the flawed bipartisanship that has fed the dissolving nationalisms of the nation for 40 years . Rivera does not leave because he believes that it is not necessary - and urgent - to address the main evils that afflict our democracy. He abandons, and that ennobles him, because he understands that the electorate - who widely supported his project in April - has now turned his back on him, understanding that his more than useful permanence was already damaging to overcome the blockade.

It is clear that Rivera, as head of the party - but supported at all times by his Executive - has made tactical errors that have squandered the baggage of an organization forged in the courageous confrontation with nationalism in Catalonia. We must not forget that Citizens -surprised from the impulse of a group of intellectuals and civil society professionals- was at first almost the only voice that politically rose against the legacy of abuse, embezzlement and corruption of the Pujol clan - and their successor Artur Mas- que, wrapped in the flag, turned Catalonia into his private farmhouse. Also against the tripartites of Maragall and Montilla, determined to approve a manifestly unconstitutional Statute . And with a speech defending the Constitution and national unity, he achieved an overwhelming victory in the Catalan regionals of December 2017, with Inés Arrimadas leading . Finally, he managed to lead the center party that has reaped the most representation in the recent history of Spain, fostering understandings - on both sides of the ideological spectrum - with the constitutionalists and supporting regional stability governments with both the PP and the PSOE. If something has revealed the trajectory of Citizens - as the CDS of Adolfo Suárez or the UPyD of Rosa Díez had tried before - it has been to demonstrate the usefulness of a reformist and liberal center party, concerned with carrying out structural reforms in Spain and regenerate the political life of the country.

We must regret, however, that when the blockade arrived , Rivera's personalism preceded the ideology he had maintained until then. His final decisions led him to a dislocation that has passed him a surely excessive bill. But at the time of goodbye, executed with unusual greatness, it is important to highlight the example that in others is so scarce.

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