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Absolute evil is coming, warns Spain's Rufián about Vox
Rufián says what is coming is not healthy political alternation but absolute evil, citing the case of an evicted woman who has died. Here is what lies behind it.
Rufián argues that what is coming is not the usual healthy alternation of power, but absolute evil, citing as an example the case of an evicted woman who has died and whom, he says, the right went so far as to call an actress. It is a political warning, not an electoral statistic.
## What Rufián said and why it matters
Esquerra Republicana MP **Gabriel Rufián** warned that what is coming is "not the political alternation, even a healthy one" of the past, but "absolute evil." He made the remark in an intervention picked up by **Europa Press**. The phrase is not an electoral forecast: it is a warning about the tone of the next political phase.
Rufián added a concrete example to back up his thesis. He said that "a woman who has died was evicted" and that "the right went so far as to say she was an actress." And he rounded off: "that evil gets voted for." In other words, he argues that political attacks are no longer aimed only at an opponent's ideas, but at the person.
## The case he cites: an eviction with a tragic ending
The MP is referring to an eviction in which a woman lost her life. According to his account, the right questioned the identity of the deceased, going as far as calling her an actress. If confirmed, that detail would turn a housing tragedy into an episode of denying other people's suffering.
Rufián does not give the deceased's name or the exact date of the eviction in this message. What he does assert is that the death is real and so is the mockery. The combination of the two is what he calls evil.
## Why he is saying it now
The remarks come at a moment of political tension in Spain. Rufián, ERC's spokesperson in Congress, has been one of the MPs most critical of the right and the far right. His warning is not an isolated one: it forms part of a message he has been repeating for some time.
The warning has a clear audience: his own electorate and the left in general. He tells them they are not facing a rival that merely wants to govern, but something different. Whether he is right or not is another matter. But the frame he sets out — politics as evil, not as governance — is the one that will shape the debate in the months ahead.
## What the message does not say
Rufián does not specify which party or parties embody that evil. Nor does he give eviction figures or official data on the case. His claim is political, not statistical. Anyone reading it should know it is an attributed opinion, not a proven fact.
Summary of a discussion on Burbuja.info - Foro de economía, actualidad y política., translated from Spanish and reviewed before publication.
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