Gabriel Rufián

Gabriel Rufián Romero (born 8 February 1982 in Santa Coloma de Gramanet) is a Spanish politician. In the Spanish general election of 2015 he led the Republican Left of Catalonia, a pro-independence electoral party.[1] He is also a member of the secretariat of the Assemblea Nacional Catalana and a member of Súmate, two other pro-independence groups.[2]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rufián and the second or maternal family name is Romero.
Gabriel Rufián Romero

MP
Gabriel Rufián in 2019
Member of the Congress of Deputies
Assumed office
13 January 2016
ConstituencyBarcelona
Personal details
Born (1982-02-08) 8 February 1982
Santa Coloma de Gramanet, Spain
Political partyRepublican Left of Catalonia
ResidenceSabadell, Spain
EducationLabour relations
Alma materPompeu Fabra University

In the 2016 general election, he was elected to the Spanish Cortes Generales for the constituency of Barcelona. On 20 September 2017, in support of the Catalan referendum on independence on 1 October, he told Mariano Rajoy to "take his dirty hands off Catalan institutions", after the Judiciary of Spain arrested several Catalan politicians as part of Operation Anubis. Later he and several other Catalan politicians walked out of the parliament in protest.[3][4]

In September 2018, Rufián was part of a one-hour question time directed towards the premier José María Aznar.[5]

References
  1. ACN (7 November 2015). "Gabriel Rufián encapçalarà la llista d'ERC al congrés en rebre el suport de l'àmplia majoria del consell nacional". VilaWeb. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  2. Xuriach, Roger (8 August 2015). "Rufián: "El independentismo ha superado el antiespañolismo"". Público (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  3. "Catalonia referendum: Spain steps up raids to halt vote". BBC News. BBC. 20 September 2017. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  4. Marsden, Sam (20 September 2017). "Catalonia: Thousands take to streets of Barcelona to protest crackdown on separatists". The Independent. Barcelona. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  5. Duro interrogatorio de Rufián a Aznar. Youtube (in Spanish). La Vanguardia. 18 September 2018. Archived from the original on 15 May 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2019.


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