Following the collapse of Ciudadanos, its founder, Albert Rivera, has made several moves in the private sector. His latest is at Empresas Mágicas de España, a new venture where he will serve as an advisor. Meanwhile, businessman Vicenç Pedret, linked to Oriol Junqueras, will be nominated as a board member of Enagás, and ACAVe will have a new board after elections that gave the victory to the most radical candidate, ousting the status quo. These are the week's most notable appointments.

It has become commonplace to see the Spanish government lose votes or need to reach agreements with multiple political parties. But it was ten years ago that the PP and the PSOE began to face this dilemma. The elections of December 20, 2015, led to unprecedented fragmentation in the Congress of Deputies and ended the historic two-party system: the PP lost 83 seats, while Podemos and Ciudadanos—from Catalonia—entered the lower house with 69 and 40 deputies, respectively. Despite their obvious political differences, on election night both parties offered the same diagnosis: Pablo Iglesias, the leader of Podemos, proclaimed that a "new Spain" had been "born," and Albert Rivera, the most visible figure of Ciudadanos, celebrated the beginning of a "new political era of hope and optimism." Neither project has that strength today—Ciudadanos has even disappeared—but the two-party system has not been restored. Now Vox and Sumar have taken up the mantle to consolidate a system with four national parties coexisting with the string of regional parties that are also key to governance.

In 2017, Ciutadans rubbed the sky in Catalonia: with 36 deputies, it became the first force in the Parliament and was gaining momentum for the definitive assault on Congress in the 2019 elections. It would be the blow to the repeat election seven months later: the formation went from 57 seats to 10. The party would then fall into a spiral of internal fights and a loss of leadership (with a hostile takeover bid by the PP (including) that have led to the practical disappearance of the institutions. But what has become of the former glories of the orange party?

From the start, it is clear that the right is not united to defeat Pedro Sánchez. At the talk called by the International Foundation for Freedom, chaired by Mario Vargas Llosa, the former leader of Cs Albert Rivera arrives late. Afterwards, he will have the detail of staying to chat and take photos with the young people who have come to listen to him, together with the former president of the Community of Madrid Esperanza Aguirre (PP) and the former spokesperson for Vox in Congress Iván Espinosa de los Monteros. The moderator of the event, a young admirer of Javier Milei born in Rosario who praises his fellow citizen Leo Messi and describes Che Guevara as a "murderer", warns that the event will last an hour because Real Madrid is playing afterwards. Seeing how, fleetingly, Espinosa de los Monteros leaves the space as soon as the talk ends, it is clear who has set these conditions.