An unexpected assistant made himself heard this Wednesday in the hemicycle of the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, just the day in which the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, intervened to take stock of the Spanish semester of presidency of the Council of the European Union. In between thorny issues such as the amnesty law or the use of co-official languages ​​in community institutions, and taking into account Carles Puigdemont present in the chamber, the MEPs have been surprised by dog ​​barking.

The scene, which you can see in the video at the top of these lines, took place just after the intervention of the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. At the end, the applause of the MEPs provoked the barking of the dog, surprising the attendees and causing murmuring and laughter in the chamber.

The faces of the MEPs say it all. Has been Roberta Metsolapresident of the European Parliament, who clarified – while containing laughter – the reason for the barking: “Colleagues, we must have a therapy support animal in the chamber.”, he explained, while the dog continued barking. He then gave way to the president of the European People’s Party (EPP), Manfred Weber, who also joked about the matter before greeting the president of the Spanish Government – and engaging with him in an arduous political debate. Sánchez, who has been accompanied by his Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, has joined the laughter of the MEPs.

LaSexta has been able to confirm that among those attending the chamber there was a person with vision problems, so the origin of the barking could, indeed, be a dog attending. for visually impaired people. An anecdote that could have been unremarkable if it were not for the presence in the chamber of Pedro Sánchez, about whom the popular pun with his name, ‘Perro Sanxe’which was born as a criticism but that the PSOE itself adopted in the electoral campaign with the intention of removing the negative aspect of the nickname.