Gabriel Rufián likes to provoke with his statements and he certainly succeeds because when he speaks in Congress he always attracts the attention of the members, who stop looking at their mobile phones to listen to him. His preferences for TikToks over libraries on the eve of the Sant Jordi day is one of his latest strokes of genius. Surely he increased his number of followers and views of his videos. Last Sunday he was interviewed in our newspaper and defended that the left had to bet on digital power and be present on social networks to face the right-wing wave. As an argument for this, he said that “today no one knows who the director of La Vanguardia is, but everyone knows who Vito Quiles is.”
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Just in case this is not so, it is worth saying that Vito Quiles is a troublemaker who goes armed with a microphone and assaults politicians, mainly aligned with the left, with his questions, and gets controversial videos that have a large audience on social networks. His success has even led him to call events in university centers trying to copy the late Charlie Kirk, and he has caused more than one public order incident for lacking permits to do so. His ideology is far-right, although that does not prevent him from having a close relationship with the republican Rufián. Both were recently awarded as “Couple of the Year 2026” in humorous awards organized by content creator Ceciarmy. Sometimes, in his campaign against the far right, Rufián ends up whitewashing it, but that is another matter.
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Because of the way he approaches all his victims in the street, Quiles has been the subject of various investigations and complaints. In the coming days he will have another one from the lawyers of Begoña Gómez, the wife of Pedro Sánchez, whom he assaulted yesterday inside a café. These kinds of actions have little to do with journalism, although agitators try to appear as if they belong to the profession. Surely they will have more success on social networks than traditional journalists, like the one who signs this article, but what matters is to practice this profession with dignity and professionalism.
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