Just 18 months ago, Albert Rivera was being compared to France's Emmanuel Macron and Canada's Justin Trudeau, was feted as kingmaker in parliament and tipped to be a future prime minister.
Spain's Popular Party (PP) will decide next Wednesday whether it accepts conditions set by centrist upstart grouping Ciudadanos in exchange for helping it form a minority government, acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said.
Albert Rivera, the leader of Ciudadanos has ensured Spanish football fans can watch their team play tonight, even though public screening of the match has been banned in the Catalan capital.
The policies of Spain's conservative government and the proposals of anti-austerity party Podemos dominated an unprecedented four-way debate on Monday, just days before the second elections in six months.
As a deadline to form a government approaches dangerously close, Spain's Socialists, far-left party Podemos and centrist upstart Ciudadanos will try to put aside their differences Thursday in their first three-way coalition talks.
After a brief glimmer of hope, Spain's Socialists look set to fail in their bid to form a government next week, plunging the country into more political uncertainty.
Spain's Socialist party announced on Wednesday that the centrist Ciudadanos party would back their candidate for prime minister, ending weeks of political deadlock since inconclusive elections
The leader of new Spanish centre-right party Ciudadanos, Albert Rivera, on Wednesday called for talks to form a pact with the conservative Popular Party and the Socialists to enable a stable government following inconclusive elections.
Ciudadanos is using an army of cyberactivists to spread its anti-corruption message via social media expanding its support base from young, educated, city dwelling voters to the middle-class.
Aragon is to Spain like Ohio is to the United States: for more than 30 years this northeastern region has always voted for the winner of general elections, and this year should prove no exception.
Spain's prime minister spurned the country's first pre-election debate of its kind Monday, an empty lectern on stage marking his no-show as other candidates made repeated digs he was unable to defend.
The councillor who was expelled from the Ciudadanos party for claming expenses for the commute to attend council meetings from Chicago has stripped off for the cover of a glossy magazine.
Ciudadanos has proposed that Spain adopt a Swedish-style paternity leave policy that would allow give fathers to equally share time off with mothers after a new born baby.
Political upstarts Ciudadanos would overtake Spain’s socialist party to become a close second to the ruling Popular Party (PP) if the general election was held today, according to the latest opinion poll.
Spain must overhaul its labour market and education system and fight cronyism to seal its recovery, said an economic expert recruited by a key party in December's general election.
Spain was on Monday reprimanded by The European Commission which ordered the country to submit a new draft budget with lower deficit estimates to avoid violating the bloc's tough spending rules, a blow for the government ahead of Spanish elections.
Spanish party Ciudadanos has no seats in the national parliament, but that could change dramatically in December's general election as recent polls indicate an upswing in support.
A Spanish celebrity magazine has released a run-down of the country's best looking politicians, but failed to include one party leader, who took to Twitter to complain.
Esperanza Aguirre, the PP candidate who failed to win a majority in Madrid, is desperately courting the socialist opposition to form a pact against the anti-austerity candidate.
