The four parliamentary groups intend to investigate in which State commanders they made the decision to spy and their motivation
After the investigation commission about espionage pegasus has been shipwrecked in the Congress of Deputies, independentistas and ‘comuns’ have agreed to undertake the same path but from the Parlament. Esquerra, Junts, CUP and En Comú Podem have registered the petition to investigate from the Catalan Chamber the telephone surveillance of “political representatives and members of Catalan civil society by the State”.
In a statement, the four parties stress that, after PSOE, PP, Cs and Vox have vetoed the commission in the Lower House, the Parliament “cannot remain impassive in the face of the seriousness of the facts, which directly threaten fundamental rights”. In this direction, they assure that their obligation is protect political leaders and citizens those they represent in case of possible violations of the right to privacy and secrecy of communications.
The objective of the commission – which will last for a year – will be to find out the details of the telephone intrusions that a Citizen Lab report revealed “by the State through the CNI or other public bodies”, in order to clarify the structures organic and technical bodies attached to the Ministries of Defense, Interior, Foreign Affairs, Presidency, Economic Vice Presidency and Justice of the Government that have participated, “directly or indirectly”, in the monitoring and control of those affected. Basically, the aim is to determine the commanders who made the decision to spy and their motivation.
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This body will be made up of two members of each parliamentary group and it is anticipated that they will attend technicians, political leaders, public officials and other positions of the State administration.
After the Government announced that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, have been victims of espionage, the independence movement suspects that it may be a “smoke screen” to remove the focus from sovereignty and of state structures. Be that as it may, the commission will succeed by having 82 deputies.