The spokesman for ERC in the Congress of Deputies, Gabriel Rufián, is again at the center of a very lively controversy on Twitter about the interview / talk he has made to Xabier Garcia Albiol, former mayor of the PP of Badalona, in his interview channel on YouTube The Factory . The difference, compared to previous dusts, is that in this case, critics fall from their own ranks . Moreover, there is talk of "a conflict" to be resolved within the party.

The debate has become so bitter that ERC leader Oriol Junqueras, sentenced by the Supreme Court to 13 years in prison (where he is) for sedition with embezzlement by the procès, has come to congratulate Gabriel Rufián for his work in 'La Fábrica' . "Two people talking, without prior censorship, without a marked script, just that," he wrote.

A direct message to Rubén Wagensberg , a Republican deputy in the Parliament, who, by the way, one of the independentistas who declared in the Supreme Court in the trial to the procés, who had reproached Rufián that this interview with Albiol only responded to his particular interests and that he did a lot of damage to his ranks.

"It is not about phobias. It is about whitening a speech and some very hard, ultra and racist policies against which many people in the streets and from the entities every day leave their skin. And yes, of interests: yours," he writes Wagensberg

Another independentista like the photojournalist of the newspaper El Món Jordi Borràs has been very critical of the ERC deputy and in a thread on Twitter he has said that "You cannot go anti-fascist and banalize the extreme right and the ultra-company in this way. It is a insult and recklessness that we will pay dearly. "

From the left and the independence movement, Xabier Albiol, now distanced from the acronym of the PP, has been credited with having reached the mayor's office in Badalona and the leadership a few years ago in the PP in Catalonia for his xenophobic messages and against illegal immigration.

Some have seen the talk as a whitening of the interviewee who they call a fascist and others see freedom of expression or plurality. The ERC spokesman in the Congress of Deputies tried to placate the spirits explaining that Albiol is one of the 22 interviews , made since the launch of La Fábrica before summer, "22 people with 22 professions and 22 ideologies "

Rufián has run into criticism in his own ranks. In addition to Rubén Wagensberg, the ERC youth and have expressed their disagreement with comments on Twitter.

"@gabrielrufian sits in @LaFabricaRufian a political rival with whom he does not share anything except that he is also a parakeet, " The Factory warmed the next broadcast of the talk "with a neighbor of Badolona", with a very friendly tone to which he Other interviews have preceded the journalist and columnist of EL MUNDO, Arcadi Espada, for which he also received many criticisms.

Seven months ago Rufián presented his YouTube channel, from Cornellá, and promised that it would be a set in which there would only be two people talking, no noise, and that there would be no censorship. With the noise he was wrong.

Jon Iñarritu, Santi Millán, Risto Mejide, Jordi Wild, Facu Díaz, Tomás Guasch are among their other interviewees at La Fábrica.

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