Espionage with the Pegasus program Pere Aragones on the part of the CNI tightens the rope with the Government of Pedro Sánchez, although without the negotiation bridges between both executives being at risk for now at the doors of the approval of the amnesty law. After it has emerged that the reason for tapping the president’s phone is the suspicion that he was in control of the CDR actionsthe head of the Generalitat has demanded that the Moncloa “make it clear”that says “all the truth” and show your willingness to “reach the end” Of the investigation. “Is serious if Pedro Sánchez was unaware of itand worse if I knew about it“, he blurted out. This Friday, the former director of the CNI declared before the judge Paz Esteban in a climate of tension between the parties in dispute.
In the last hours, the question hovers over whether the Government was he aware or not of listening to Aragonès at different times between July 2018 and January 2020 and whether or not there has been a political intentionality behind or one unilateral action of the intelligence services service. The Minister of Justice, Felix Bolaños, the mayor has denied, in addition to underlining that the current government has not authorized the wiretapping of Aragonès. However, distrust on the part of the Republicans, who are an indispensable part of supporting the majority of Sánchez’s legislature, persists.
The president has insisted on the “gravity” that they did not know that he was being spied on because the Government “You must be informed of what your secret services are doing”. But he has even made one more guess: “If they knew, they would be endorsing espionage on people for defending his political ideas.” Some of the dates on which his phone was tapped coincide with episodes of negotiation between ERC and the PSOE for the investiture of Sánchez and the preparation of the dialogue table. That is why, after having labeled “typical of Mortadelo and Filemón” the reasons given for spying on him, Aragonès raises his tone to ask the Moncloa for explanations and demands “collaboration” with justice with the declassification of all documents.
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However, the Government is walking on eggshells and has no intention of turning a corner in its commitment to negotiations with the PSOE to move towards amnesty and achieving a referendum. For now, for example, asking for the resignation of the Minister of Defense has been avoided, Margaret Roblesas it did in the spring of 2022, when the case broke out and They temporarily dynamited the bridges of dialogue between both governments. The relationship was rekindled with the only dismissal of Esteban, while Robles, to whom the intelligence services depend, has repeated his position in this term.
And this time the controversy is revived in the midst of the negotiation of the amnesty lawwhich Congress will foreseeably approve next Tuesday in the midst of controversy over the actions of Judge García Castellón that may leave the Tsunami Democràtic case, and, therefore, Carles Puigdemont and Marta Rovira, outside the amnesty. However, Aragonès has defended that the agreed law is “robust enough” to escape its “biased” clutches.