Two deputies from Unidos Podemos fall asleep during Rufián’s intervention in Congress

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  • The deputies of En Comú Podem Raimundo Viejo and Mar García Puig
  • Rufián was asking a question about Defense to Cospedal
The two United deputies We can sleep in your seat. Image: Twitter

Gabriel Rufián, ERC deputy and spokesman for the formation in Congress, does not usually go unnoticed in his speeches and interventions from the lower house gallery. If some of their words often cause irritation, others, and not just members of their party, usually exalt them.

In this last group, the bench of Unidos Podemos, whose lordships usually have gestures of sympathy and affection towards Rufián when he heads or returns from the gallery. In fact, they are usually the leaders of the formation, Pablo Iglesias, Íñigo Errejón or Irene Montero, who star in these winks.

However, not all the deputies of the confluence seem to be dazzled in the same way with the rhetoric of the Catalan independence deputy. Yesterday, in a session of control to the Government in which the news was the death of Rita Barberá and the decision of Unidos We can be absent in the minute of silence that the House celebrated in its memory, two deputies of Unidos Podemos fell asleep in his seat while Rufián spoke.

The ERC spokesman called on Defense Minister Dolores de Cospedal to ask citizens without resources “to eat bullets and sleep in tanks” by asking the following question: “Do you think, in a State with 750,000 families without income? , 800,000 people without health care, 32% of child poverty, 500.00 evictions in the last six years, 13 million poor, reduce military spending that between actual and camouflaged figures reaches 17,465 million euros? “.

Cospedal gave him an equally “short and simple: no” answer. Rufián told him then: “Now go out and tell the people to eat bullets and sleep in tanks.” “I understand that in this area, as in many others, demagogy is a very comfortable resource,” said Cospedal, and also “that there are times when the situation forces us to reaffirm the obvious.”

It was at the end of one of those two exchanges of words of Rufián with Cospedal when one of the cameras that retransmitted the session captured the deputies of En Comú Podem, the Catalan electoral alliance within Unidos Podemos, Rayford Viejo and Mar García Puig thrown towards back in his seat with his eyes closed in a clear attitude of repose. It is unknown if Rufián's speech was really soporific or if it was some sort of agreed response.