Opinion
Vanishing act
Mark Nayler
There was no clear winner in last Sunday's Catalan election, but there was a notable loser - centrist Ciudadanos. Formerly a dynamic alternative to right-of-centre voters done with a broken, unrepentant Popular Party, Ciudadanos has been slowly but ... surely disappearing over the last few years, and last weekend seemed to be its final vanishing act: it took seventh place, securing just six seats in Catalonia's 135-seat parliament. In the region's last election in 2017, the anti-independence party came ... Rivera's sudden departure was prompted by the party's disastrous performance in that month's general election, which saw it lose 2.5 million votes and 47 of its 57 seats in national congress. He did, at least, own the defeat, saying that "bad results belong