11 Nov, 2019 @ 13:35
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Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera resigns after shocking performance in Spain’s general election

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CIUDADANOS leader Albert Rivera has resigned today after his centre-right party was almost wiped off the map in yesterday’s general election.

The C’s, as its known, only managed to pick up 10 seats, suffering at the hands of a resurgent Partido Popular and the arrival of far right Vox.

It was a staggering loss of 47 seats from the April 28 elections held earlier this year.

The party is reportedly meeting today on Calle Alcala in Madrid to analyse what went wrong.

Rivera called a meeting as soon as the results were known last night to decide the ‘future of the party’.

The PSOE won last night’s election with 120 seats, but it has a long and difficult road to forming a government.

It will need to collect 56 seats by joining forces with several other parties, or form a minority government and hope its right-wing rival Partido Popular will abstain in a confidence vote.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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