Rufián, to Junts: "As long as I remain in politics I will strive so that you end up in the greatest ostracism"

BarcelonaGabriel Rufián has gone up to the Congress rostrum with a stack of papers, some keys, and a 50-euro bill in his pocket. The stack of papers was to show the hundreds of messages he claims to have received from people asking for ERC to vote in favor of the two housing decrees. The keys, he said, were to his home, which is not his own, he added. And the 50-euro bill was to send a message to Junts: "This is their estelada." While it is already common for the republican spokesperson to repeatedly send darts at Junts in his speeches in Congress, this Friday he dedicated his entire intervention to attacking heavily against the no from Junts to the two housing decrees that are to be validated in Congress this morning. And he made a promise: "For as long as I remain in politics, I will strive to ensure you end up in the greatest ostracism".

Rufián began by accusing Junts of having "real estate interests" and putting them first when it came to defending the right to housing. "They are not here to choose an ideological path, they are here paying a debt. The question is: in exchange for what?", stated Rufián. "It is deplorable and censurable that their private interests screw over thousands of people", he retorted, and later added: "They are not calibrating. This is a historic, legendary overstep". One of the arguments that Junts has used to defend its vote against the anti-eviction decree is that it does not sufficiently protect small property owners. An argument that Rufián has censured because he asserts that it is a "lie".

He compares Nogueras to Ayuso

In fact, Rufián has gone even a step further and compared the leader of Junts in Madrid, Miriam Nogueras, with the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. "Stop imitating her," said the republican deputy, who also accused her of making decisions to compete with the leader of Aliança, Sílvia Orriols. The criticisms of Nogueras did not end there, but he described her as a "bad politician" and of "destroying" a party that he believes is "necessary" for Catalonia. "I ask you to return to Pujolism, right-wing and conservative, but one with which it was possible to dialogue," he added.

The republican spokesperson ended by asking Junts to become a "decent" right-wing party and, besides promising to send them to "political ostracism," he expressed his hope that, in the meantime, ERC "does not return to pact" with Junts "for anything." He finished his intervention by reproaching Nogueras for not ending her speech this Friday with her usual "Long live free Catalonia." "Long live Catalonia free from you," concluded Rufián.

Squabble with Turull

Rufián has continued to attack Junts from X, when he branded the Junts secretary general, Jordi Turull, a "shitty classist" after he criticized the spokesperson for the Tenants' Union, Carme Arcarazo: "We expected more substantial arguments, Carme Arcarazo. Too easy even for you." Turull replied to Rufián by accusing him of being "an invention of the State's sewers infiltrated into Súmate and later into ERC": "Your insults don't even tickle us."