Rivera, visibly moved, said he took responsibility for the party’s “poor result” in hopes that the party would return to its roots as a centrist and liberal political project, in televised remarks after meeting with his party’s executive committee.
Ciudadanos won 10 seats in Sunday’s election, less than a fifth of 57 seats won in the previous April election.
Various potential solutions to unblock the stalemate, however, involve Ciudadanos, alongside regionalist parties.
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