Check the absolutely gorgeous photo by Santi Cogolludo of Albert Rivera in La Paloma, The Dove, on today’s El Mundo front page. The hall opened in the 1890s as a vice den called The White Camellia but changed its name and image in 1903, taking its interior design from Paris and its new name from the guard dog. Everyone is fairly confident that the new, non-nationalist, liberal-progressive alternative, Ciutadans, will make it into the regional parliament, but more deputies means more hassle for the establishment, so folks will be evangelising up to the wire.
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