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Albert Rivera has started the electoral campaign in Cádiz appealing and chanting the "Yes you can", the motto that made Podemos popular in 2015 and 2016. The president of Ciudadanos intends to breathe encouragement to his people and convince them that the party can trace the surveys, as it did in Andalusia last year.

That is why he has opened the campaign in Cádiz, cradle of Spanish liberalism and one of the Spanish provinces where Citizens obtain better results. There he has appealed to his people to make "a comeback campaign, an epic campaign of effort".

Citizens begin seven days to life or death in which the orange formation wants to mobilize most of the more than three million voters who chose their ballot just six months ago. To encourage his militants, Rivera has transferred that Citizens "was born against the polls in Catalonia"; and that is still the case "because not one said that change was possible in Andalusia, and it was".

Rivera has celebrated his campaign start at El Pelícano, a concert bar in Cádiz, surrounded by more than 150 supporters. There, together with the Vice President of the Junta de Andalucía, he explained that there are "three fundamental reasons to vote for citizens." The first is its commitment to "unblock Spain", either from the Government or from the opposition.

The second, his commitment to undertake "the great reforms that this country needs and have been in the drawer for 40 years." The third and last, to "defend the unity of Spain without complexes" and deal with the independence.

Rivera has appealed against the useful vote and in favor of the "vote to what each one likes best". "Do not vote with the calculator, vote with your heart," he harangued before a public delivered.

In this campaign, Rivera intends to return to the founding principles of Citizens, to their essences: to the fight against corruption, to the defense of the great pacts of State and to the fight without quarter against nationalism, now embodied in Catalan independence and in Quim Torra. For this reason, he intends to demand the Government in functions every day to dismiss him by applying 155 immediately.

Rivera has appealed to "the moderates, to those of us at the center, to those of us who want to join the Spaniards" so that "we become strong and believe it". Because "the stronger Citizens are, there will be less sausages," "the stronger Citizens are, the easier it will be to unlock this country."

The liberal leader will be the absolute protagonist in a campaign in which the initials or symbols of Citizens will give way to minimalist scenarios where only the candidate and his supporters are. The orange formation thus tries to recover from the founding principles of the party, when it was born as a civic and citizen movement, not as a classic party.

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