Aragonès meets this Thursday in Congress with the parties spied on by ‘Catalangate’

This Thursday’s summit will be the first episode of pressure that will not cease. . Already the mere presence, without other decorations, of a ‘president’ in the seat of Spanish sovereignty is striking. And it will force, yes or yes, the attention of some state coverage media that seem “more entertained in Piqué’s business than in the espionage of citizens by the State,” a source from the Palau de la Generalitat sarcastically points out.

The Government, and particularly Aragonès, considers that, if the pressure is maintained, Pedro Sanchez It is going to be a difficult task, especially now that information is already appearing that indicates that it was the CNI that bought the Pegasus spy program.

According to this government source, “they [por el entorno socialista del Gobierno] They believed that the echo of the scandal would be diluted in just 24 hours and the noise would be confined to those closest to Carles Puigdemont“, Explains a source from the Palau de la Generalitat who emphasizes that the “profile of Aragonès, nothing hyperventilated” does not help the easy exit “through the cat flap” of the Government.

In addition, he continues: “We have not gesticulated like others who ask for the resignation of to the ‘sursum corda’ at the first change. Step by step and without advancing screens. First we demand explanations. And we’ll see.”

Republicans continue betting on the international sounding board. “We have received more requests from international media interviews on a day that in the year that Aragonès has almost been as ‘president'”, relates the voice and adds that four were held on Wednesday and four more are scheduled for this Thursday.

In an interview with RAC1, Aragonès considered that there is “clear evidence” that the National Intelligence Center (CNI) is responsible for espionage on some sixty pro-independence leaders, and has once again called on the government for “transparency and assumption of responsibilities.” The Catalan president has taken aim directly at Spanish intelligence by suggesting that “you don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to look at the CNI”. “It is obvious evidence – he added -. If the CNI has bought the software, if it can only be sold to states… what other intelligence service would want to allocate millions of euros to spy on us?”

Beyond this Thursday’s meeting, but if he hopes to be able to speak “face to face” with someone at some point, it is with the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, with whom he has already maintained contact via phone messages, in which Aragonès sent him his discomfort and Sánchez, according to the ‘president’, conveyed the “willingness to redirect the situation”. “But that must be translated into facts”, Aragonès pointed out in this regard.

In fact, Aragonès explained, both were due to coincide this Wednesday at an opening ceremony for the Catalan company Wallbox, before which the Catalan president reminded him that “it would not make sense that with everything that was happening, we went to the act as if nothing had happened, so it was essential that we meet to discuss that issue”; something that finally has not happened because Sánchez has not traveled to Barcelona.

The head of the Catalan Executive has admitted that trust between the two governments is “very damaged”, so “it will be very difficult to continue trusting a government that does not show signs of trust” if it does not promote an independent internal investigation and assume the responsibilities that are necessary.