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By Elisabeth O'Leary MADRID (Reuters) - Most Spaniards want their new king, Felipe, to play a greater role in politics and build bridges between the country's divided parties and regions, a poll showed on Sunday. Spain's monarchy has tried stay out of the intricacies of factional rivalries in recent years - though Felipe's father, King Juan Carlos, is widely credited with helping smooth the country's transition to democracy in the 1970s after the Francisco Franco dictatorship. The poll in newspaper El Pais suggested three quarters of Spaniards thought Felipe, sworn in on Thursday after the abdication of his father, should personally push parties to reach agreements on Spain's problems if politicians failed to do so. Spanish politics is heavily partisan and regional, and growing separatist sentiment in Catalonia has seen the biggest political parties hemorrhaging votes in the wealthy territory and beyond.
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