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Spanish media are revisiting the 2013 sale of thousands of public housing units in Madrid to vulture funds. elDiario.es reports that 1,860 public homes were sold off under then-mayor Ana Botella, while El HuffPost says 4,795 flats went to funds linked to Goldman Sachs and Blackstone, with tenants still living in them. Critics argue the deal deprived Madrid of social housing that is now sorely needed.
- 2Gabriel Rufián says Spain's trend is not fascism but 'hijoputismo'●🔥 ■ Rufián habla claro sobre si está de moda el fascismo en España: "Está de moda el hijoputismo" ■ El político catalán
Catalan politician Gabriel Rufián, asked in an interview on the television programme 'Salvados' whether fascism is on the rise in Spain, answered bluntly that what is fashionable is 'hijoputismo' — a coarse Spanish term roughly meaning behaving like a bastard. The remark, reported by HuffPost Spain, is circulating widely as a characteristically provocative take on the country's political climate and the rhetoric of its right wing.