This legislature has not lacked surreal moments in Congress, but few like the one experienced this Tuesday, moments before the union of the right fell. The ERC spokesperson, Gabriel Rufián, after a brutal intervention against Junts, approached the seats of his former partners to hand them a paper with comments against their position on housing policies. She stood next to her Junts counterpart, Miriam Nogueras, who did not lift her head from the document she was reading. The rest rejected it too. Then a shout rang out in the chamber—“theater!”—followed by protests and angry gestures. These displays of solidarity with those of Carles Puigdemont came from the most unexpected place: from the seats of Vox – the party that – and the PP.
