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Thursday, February 03, 2022 at 07:15

Congress of Deputies, available to students

On January 25, 20 URJC students participated in the V Edition of SICODI. As part of the event, they had the opportunity to interview several members of the Congress of Deputies.

Dária Efimova/Editor

As in previous years, 2022 kicks off with one of the most important initiatives on the university circuit: the fifth edition of the Congress of Deputies Simulation, or SICODI. Created by the Association for the Simulation of the Congress of Deputies (ASICODI) in order to bring students closer to the functioning of public institutions, it brings together hundreds of young people from different provinces and educational centers. 

The event was held between January 25 and 28, and was inaugurated in the Congress of Deputies by the First Vice President of the Chamber, Rodríguez Gómez de Celis. During the week, the participants have assumed the role of a deputy, each from a different political party, to debate and approve laws relevant to the most recent news. This edition had 200 participants, 20 of them from the Rey Juan Carlos University, who have attended both in the role of deputy and in the written and television press of SICODI.

However, this year the students of Journalism and Audiovisual Communication degrees have had special prominence. They have not only played the role of press in the simulation itself, but also have spoken with several deputies during the inauguration. Some of the congressmen interviewed were Uxía Tizón, Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez and Marta Rosique. On the other hand, the Journalism students of the University also spoke with the journalist Pilar Cernuda, who put her work to work and stressed the importance of her work, as well as the need to train, to achieve a consolidated democracy.

Conducting this type of interview not only enriches and adds realism to the simulation. It also becomes an opportunity for students of Journalism, Audiovisual Communication, Political Science and International Relations to put into practice the knowledge they have acquired during their studies. According to Leyre Puyuelo Vidal, a double degree student in Journalism and International Relations at the URJC: "This is how you learn the most important thing about exercising the profession, which is working at the foot of the canyon, and this simulation has been quite a opportunity to experience it.”