Rufián's controversial confession about the independence movement: "Purity cards were handed out and I'm ashamed"

BarcelonaGabriel Rufián has once again generated controversy. This time, for an interview that Jordi Évole did with him on the La Sexta programme The thing about Évole, which will be broadcast on Sunday. The ERC deputy has attacked the independence movement, stating that during the years of the Process "purity cards were handed out", something in which he says he participated and which, now, he is ashamed of, he says. After the La Sexta journalist asked him about the mistakes that the independence movement has made in the last decade, the Republican deputy responded: "Handing out purity cards. I have participated. I am ashamed of myself."

"It confirms the prejudices of the metropolis"

That Rufián agrees to make controversial statements is no surprise, but they have been particularly poorly received by some sectors of the independence movement, at a time of reflection on the political future of Catalonia.

"What a humiliating response. The feeling that they are exhibiting an unarmed barbarian in the Roman circus and making him say what confirms the prejudices of the metropolis," reacted the former CUP deputy Albert Botran, who, like Rufián, was a deputy in Congress. For his part, Jordi Graupera, from Al mismo tiempo, has denied the Republican's statement: "What Rufián says to Évole is not believed by him, nor by Évole, nor by anyone else. It is designed so that we all go out to shout and we end up believing that we are finished in the future." K_SLT_LNA~ At some other point in the interview, Évole confesses to the former councillor of Santa Coloma de Gramanet that he used to dislike him a lot. "I dislike you even more," responds Rufián, who adds: "I have spoken badly of you a lot." In addition, Ruffian He recounts how the citizens of Santa Coloma he met on the street believed he was running for election for the PSOE.