Outrage at the new revelations and requests to go all the way to find out the truth. It is the reaction of the majority of Catalan parties after the interview with the ex-commissioner Jose Manuel Villarejo published by EL PERIÓDICO in which he points to the former president of the Government Mariano Rajoy as ultimately responsible for the Operation Catalonia and in which he recognizes how he maneuvered against Xavier Trias in the case of the fake account in Switzerland.
“It is intolerable that State resources could have been used for dark operations for the benefit of a party, in this case, the PP, from which we are still waiting for an explanation,” said the spokesperson for the PSC in Parliament, Alícia Romero. The PSOE has agreed to the creation of a commission of inquiry in Congress on the actions of the so-called ‘patriotic police’ against the independence movement, although circumscribing it to the mandate of the PP and saving Rajoy from appearing. “We express our absolute revulsion and demand that this matter be brought to an end,” concludes the socialist leader.
Together’s spokesman, Joseph Riushas asked the Socialists to vote in favor of Rajoy’s appearance: “We want to know if Rajoy is the X who is hiding behind the dirty war against Catalonia. When the PSOE vetoes the appearance, it makes us suspect complicity in this dirty war What do you want to hide?” he asked at a press conference.
Regarding Villarejo’s statements about the invention of an account in Switzerland of his party’s mayor, Rius has described the ex-commissioner’s words as very serious: “In any country there would be heads rolling and responsibilities that would have had to be assumedIn the dirty war against the independence movement, anything goes. And we have yet to hear that he [Villarejo] I would have done better in what was an invention, a lie to harm a person, a political project, and to affect the outcome of an election,” he added.
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For his part, the spokesman for the Republicans in Congress, Gabriel Ruffianhas maintained that he has attended up to three investigative commissions in which he has had before “people who have held enormous positions of responsibility” and who has answered “that They were willing to do whatever it took for the country.“. “Police, officials of the Ministry of the Interior, lawyers, etc. In many interrogations they have given us answers that would have chilled the blood of every democrat”, he added, asking get “to the bottom of the matter” As for Villarejo and his revelations. “It is impossible to imagine that the entire group of the so-called ‘patriotic police’ acted without following the orders of a political hierarchy. This is a country where it seems that each era has a “Mr. X” of something,” he concluded.
For the leader of the United We Can group in Congress, Jaume Asens, every time it is “more justified” that Rajoy appears in the commission of the Congress. “These are not merely police sewers, but directed from the Ministry of the Interior and, it seems, with the approval of Rajoy. It is a parapolitical operation and not just parapolice,” he assured. Asens has also regretted that Villarejo “endorses the false construction of evidence” against leaders such as Trias with a vote to alter electoral results. “He is very cynical and shows that progress must be made in the investigations both in court and in Congress,” he concluded.