The networks laugh at Gabriel Rufián's Catalan: "He needs a translator"

• The PP refuses to use the earpiece and Vox floods Sánchez's seat with 'helmets'
• The Government prioritizes Catalan and parks Basque in the EU in the face of resistance from European partners

This Tuesday, Congress launched the earpiece system to translate the co-official languages in the Lower House in a harsh plenary session, with a stampede from the Vox deputies, and amid protests from the PP, who have refused to put on the headset.. From today, deputies can speak in Basque, Galician or Catalan. The regulations of the Chamber will be reformed for this purpose. Gabriel Rufián (Esquerra Republicana) or Borja Sémper (PP) are some of the deputies who have launched the measure, in Catalan and Basque – the latter to protest -. Curiously, for neither of them it is their mother tongue..

PP deputy Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo has been the first to question the Esquerra deputy's command of Catalan: “Unforeseen technical problem: Rufián must be translated into Catalan”. And a flood of mockery and criticism has followed on the social network X, formerly Twitter.

They question Rufián's level of Catalan

Rufián has used Catalan in his turn to speak to defend the approval of the use of co-official languages in Congress. He has done so after the ERC executive has decided that its deputies always speak in Catalan, in all debates, without exchanging Spanish.. A measure that has been criticized by ex-deputy Joan Tardà in an interview with RTVE this Tuesday.

The former spokesperson for the Republican parliamentary group, which defends the use of Catalan as the first option within Congress, has indicated that they should not completely abandon the use of Spanish, since this “is also the mother tongue of many Catalans” and because they must continue defending the independence movement also in Spanish.

Unforeseen technical problem: Rufián must be translated into Catalan.

— Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo (@cayetanaAT) September 19, 2023

Joking aside, I think I speak better Catalan than Rufián. pic.twitter.com/twJVPnfZCk

— Wall Street Wolverine (@wallstwolverine) September 19, 2023

Why does Rufián look like Dani Rovira speaking Catalan? #Congress pic.twitter.com/jZK4supHxw

— Miguel Cisneros (@mcisneros00) September 19, 2023

Does it seem to me or does Rufián speak regular Catalan?

— Miss Gutiérrez (@Hijadeguti) September 19, 2023

Can you speak worse than Rufian in Catalan? https://t.co/zvIONRWwwJ

— ' (@Maaarcc_FCB) September 19, 2023

As a Catalan, I ask the Government to have a translator take care of making Rufián's interventions intelligible, not digestible.

So much patriotic love, imposition and various flourishes, and he is still unable to pronounce properly. He can; Now, as you come from Andalusia…. https://t.co/pzqCXj6BOE

— Marc Luque (@MarcLuqueSAB) September 19, 2023

The networks that have laughed at Rufián's Catalan have also participated in this plenary session.. Many have been struck by the “little ability” to speak the language and have said that “it needs a translator.”. “Does it seem to me or does Rufián speak regular Catalan?” expressed a user on Twitter..

An intervention that has been the target of laughter on Twitter. “Why does Rufián look like Dani Rovira speaking Catalan?” or “can you speak worse than Rufián in Catalan?” These are some comments that can be read..