"Oh, you Brifín": social media is buzzing with Feijóo's latest blunder

BarcelonaThis isn't the first time an Alberto Núñez Feijóo speech has gone viral on social media due to a slip of the tongue. The pattern is long. Legal concepts, proper names, and historical facts are frequently mixed up in a cocktail of gaffes that delight social media users.

This week, during his tour of Aragon in the final stretch of the Aragonese elections, Feijóo added two new chapters to his anthology of gaffes. The first was last Sunday, during a rally in Calatayud (Zaragoza), where instead of championing the strength of "solid democracy," the Popular Party leader He ended up describing Spain as a "solid dictatorship".And although he quickly tried to backtrack, the phrase had already spread, reinforcing the image of a candidate who gets lost in his own speeches.

But the real explosion occurred this Wednesday in Binéfar (Huesca) during a visit to the company Fibrin, which Feijóo renamed no fewer than eight times as Brifín, rendering the company's name meaningless, since the "bin" in Fibrin refers to Binéfar, a town in the La Litera region of Huesca. The blunder, made even more glaring by the large sign behind the politician displaying the company's correct name, has flooded social media with memes and puns. These range from "Ai guan tu Bifrín," featuring Feijóo in a wig vacuuming, to "Melanie Brifin," superimposing the politician's face onto that of the iconic actress, and even "Peter Brifin," a reference to the famous American TV series.

These two gaffes in recent days add to a series of blunders by the conservative leader. Just a couple of months ago, during a speech in Congress, Feijóo stumbled when trying to compare the situation of Spanish President Pedro Sánchez with the series Anatomy of a Moment"Anatop," he declared. Since entering state politics, Feijóo has also dubbed Bruce Springsteen "Bruce Sprinter" and referred to judges as "fascists in robes." Nor has he forgotten his infamous mix-up with the title of George Orwell's novel. 1984 with the year he wrote it, or his geographical escapades across the Peninsula. Episodes reminiscent of the popular style of his predecessor, former Spanish president and former PP leader Mariano Rajoy.