The European Parliament has prioritized studying the situation in Israel, Poland, Hungary and the United States, but does not rule out expanding the territories in the future
The European Parliament rules out for the moment sending a mission to Spain to investigate cases of espionage with the system Pegasus, various sources confirmed to EFE.
The special investigation commission on the Pegasus case created by the European Parliament has prioritized sending missions to Israel, Poland, Hungary and the United States and, at the moment, there is no room in the calendar to send more delegations to other countries.
Until now, the possibility of sending a mission to Spain has been on the table, although has not been a top priority of European popular and social democrats and now it can only be carried out if the mandate of the special investigation commission is extended beyond the month of April 2023. The Vedes and the European Left, on the other hand, have proposed sending a delegation to Spain , a proposal that according to some sources also opposed the extreme right.
The European Parliament, however, will send parliamentary missions to Israel – the country from which the NSO company, owner of Pegasus, comes from – and to Hungary and Poland, whose governments have admitted the purchase of the espionage program, and to the United States, headquarters of the main technology companies.
The Pegasus case has generatedor controversy in Spain since the Canadian institute Citizens Lab published that 63 pro-independence politicians and people around them were spied on. Subsequently, the former director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI), Paz Esteban, acknowledged that among the pro-independence leaders spied on is the current president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonés, when he was vice president.
The Spanish government also acknowledged that the phones of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, and the Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, were also spied on. A case in which the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños will have to testify as a witness before the judge of the Spanish National High Court, José Luis Calama, who is investigating the case.