Albert Rivera Díaz is a Spanish

Spanish people

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 lawyer

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 and politician

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 of Catalan

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 and Andalusia

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n ancestry. He is currently the leader of the Citizens' Party., after having been a member of the conservative People's Party

People's Party (Spain)

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 (PP) from 2002 to 2006. Albert Rivera quit PP just three months before running for elections with Citizen's Party

He studied at the ESADE

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 law school. At the 2006 Catalan Parliament election

Catalan Parliament election, 2006

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 (the first campaign they participated in after its recent creation in July 2006), his party scored 3.04% of the votes and won 3 seats in the Parliament of Catalonia

Parliament of Catalonia

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