Rufián attacks Junts for "bringing 'friends' into Spanish companies"

MadridIt's unusual for a spokesperson to address another group in a control session, especially with the limited time to scrutinize the Spanish president's government actions. But for days, Gabriel Rufián (ERC) has been bothered by the fact that Junts MP Isidre Gavín blamed ERC for the incidents on the Cercanías (local trains) last week. The Republican spokesperson called him "miserable" and accused him of never having taken public transport. This Wednesday, when Rufián was the one who criticized Pedro Sánchez for the problems on the Cercanías (local trains), the Republican spokesperson emphasized that Junts "takes advantage" of the delays. "Imagine the media and digital impunity these people have to rip us off for the transfer of Cercanías while they bring in their own people." little friends to the board of directors of Renfe," he criticized.

Junts' shift to Madrid is not just that it went from no to everything of the previous legislature to negotiate with the Spanish government to make its seven deputies useful, but has also started trying to influence Spanish companies through their boards of directors. Miquel Calçada's entry into RTVE—ERC also placed Sergi Sol, Oriol Junqueras's former chief of staff— It was the first step, and now others have followed: the latest, that of economist Eduard Gràcia at Renfe, following the appointments of former MEP Ramon Tremosa at Aena, businesswoman Elena Massot at Enagás, and former director of the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan Police), Pere Soler, to the National Market Commission. "Press conferences with the Spanish flag, no, but getting friends into Spanish companies is fine, right?" Rufián asked.

The dig at the Spanish flag refers to the anecdote that occurred this Tuesday in Congress, when Junts spokesperson Míriam Nogueras avoided making statements to the media in a room set aside for press conferences because a Spanish flag appeared behind her. It was raining in the courtyard of the lower house, where Nogueras usually meets with the media. In the end, it was raining in the corridor. Rufián believes that he "fell short" in his attacks on Junts the day after the controversy escalated over the approval of the bill by the junts by favor express evictions In the case of jobs, the Republican spokesperson tweeted the news along with a mouse emoji.

"Who can trust Junqueras's words if the leader of his group in Madrid behaves like the global far right? The insult is typical of fascists!" retorted Agustí Colomines, Junts MP in the Parliament. "Rats, lice, beetles, vultures... the kind of animals the Nazis used to dehumanize Jews," added Francesc de Dalmases, also a member of the Parliament. Carles Puigdemont's chief of staff, historian Josep Lluís Alay, retrieved a tweet from PP MP Carlos García Adanero from Tuesday, criticizing the flag incident in Nogueras, and joked: "What a great speaker the ERC spokesperson in Congress is." Tensions between the two pro-independence parties in Madrid are always latent, due to the ongoing battle they maintain when it comes to maintaining that they don't support the PSOE for nothing. And now the Republicans see that Junts is trying to seize on the delays in Cercanías to discredit the Republicans' pact for the transfer of the railway service to the Generalitat, that is progressing with difficulty.

Feijóo attacks Sánchez for Prisa

The political control of public or private companies has also been the subject of criticism by the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who has criticized Sánchez for his attempts to dominate the Prisa group – which, among others, is the owner of Cadena Ser and The Country. "Three days ago the president ofThe Country He had to be reminded that he cannot behave like a dictator," Feijóo stressed, referring to Josep Oughourlian's article In which he considered it "unacceptable that, when we are commemorating the 50th anniversary of Franco's death, someone would fall into the temptation of trying to take over an independent media outlet from a position of power, either directly or using a state-owned company as an instrument." The company in question is Telefónica, in which the state became a shareholder through Criteria (La Caixa), and which Feijóo claims Sánchez uses to pressure the media.