No minister of the Spanish Government will meet with the members of the delegation of the European Parliament who will travel to Madrid on Monday and Tuesday to investigate espionage with the program Pegasus, according to the latest version of the mission agenda. The only representative of the Government that the European mission will see is the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Pascual Navarrowhich will do so next Monday afternoon.
The program, however, is still a draft, so it could still undergo more changes. The visit has encountered several obstacles on the agenda, because Monday is a holiday in the Spanish capital and Tuesday will coincide with the motion of censure that VOX has promoted against the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchez.
Also on Monday they will meet with Virginia Álvarez, head of Amnesty International’s human rights department, and with Patricia Goicoechea García, director of Rights International in Spain, as well as various deputies of Parliament, specifically with Óscar Aparicio Pedrosa (PSC), Marta Vilalta and Josep Maria Jové (ERC), Albert Batet and Josep Rius (JxCAT), Montserrat Vinyets Pagès and Xavier Pellicer (CUP), Lucas Ferro Solé (Podem) and Alberto Tarradas ( VOX). The first day will conclude with a meeting with journalists from El País Miguel González, Juanma Lamet from El Mundo and Javier Chicote from ABC.
On Tuesday, the MEPs will meet on Tuesday with the ‘president’ Pere Aragonesin a meeting that will also be attended by the ‘Councillor’ for Foreign Affairs of the Generalitat, Meritxell Serret and the councilor in the Barcelona City Council Ernest Maragall, all of them spied on. There will also be a meeting with Andrés Jiménez Rodríguez, director of the Security and Justice area of the Office of the Ombudsman, as well as a meeting with representatives of the Defense Commission of the Congress of Deputies.
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The parliamentary mission will be made up of nine MEPs, including four Spaniards, former Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido (PP), Ibán García del Blanco (PSOE), Jorge Buxadé as a representative of Vox and, on behalf of ERC, Diana Ribawhose phone was spied on according to the Canadian laboratory CitizenLab.
The president of the European Parliament commission investigating the case with Pegasus, the popular Jeroen Lenaers, and the liberal Sophie In ‘t Veld, responsible for writing the draft report with the conclusions of the investigation commission, will also attend. A document that questions the espionage of representatives of the Catalan independence movement based on the need to guarantee the national security of the State, which the parliamentary commission will vote on on April 26 and to which 1,281 amendments have been presented so far, which began to be discussed last week the Eurochamber.