Resurrection week for separatists and separators. The revelations of the Citizen Lab about the use of the Pegasus wiretapping program on the telephones of the senior staff of the Catalan independence parties has given wings to those of “the worse the better & rdquor; and has generated an unpublished photograph in recent months of Carles Puigdemont and Oriol Junqueras. The unilateralists already smell a new “momentum”: an international campaign against an anti-democratic Spain, Esquerra gets up from the dialogue table, the Sánchez government lives badly without support even the municipal ones, the PP wins comfortably with Vox and another tangana is organized. As they say now, they already “visualize & rdquor; this new wet dream. On the side of the separators, the perspectives are not very different: the Government cannot open up the bowels of the State to give explanations to its partners, the chimera that something can be done with the independentistas is abandoned that is not to beat them by land , sea and air, the nonsense and “constitutionalism” are over. is imposed without moving token. Pegasus as a new mortar for the blocks to the detriment of politics. The shortcuts on both sides are back.
A more serious matter than it seems
Indeed, it is naive to think that a democratic state is not going to use espionage to identify maneuvers by those who publicly propose to dismantle it. This is known even by independentists who, if they really are, aspire to have their own secret services. Another thing is that there are many kinds of spies. Those who know how to use the mechanisms that democracies put at their disposal to work, those that include the protection of the fundamental rights of the citizens who pay them and those that leave no trace of what they do. Then there is the Pepe Gotera and Otilio version. Everything indicates that we are closer to the second scenario than the first. And at this point, in the list of hackers with Pegasus there are three typologies that make the matter very, very ugly and more serious than it seems. First, the four presidents of the Generalitat who have allegedly been listened to indiscriminately and illegally. The four were at that time representatives of the State in Catalonia. The last time the State wiretapped a State authority, a Vice President of the Government resigned. Secondly, the deputies and MEPs who, in the eyes of Europe, are presumed victims of a case of political control of popular sovereignty just when European justice must rule on the immunity of some of those involved. And finally it’s the case of the wiretapping of the lawyers of those prosecuted for 1-O. The last time a judge in Spain allowed a lawyer-client conversation to be recorded, he had to abandon his judicial career. So Pedro Sánchez has three open fronts that are as or more important than the anger of some parliamentary partners who can leave him in the lurch.
A unit more apparent than real
No matter how many photos and proclamations are made, the monkey dresses in silk. Puigdemont and Junqueras only agreed on the time and day of meeting. They still don’t think the same and didn’t even try to say the same thing. Puigdemont believes that Pegasus gives him fuel for another unilateral sprint and Junqueras believes that it provides him with carbohydrates to burn sugar in the marathon of expanding the pro-independence base. The same anger, the same lawsuits, but with different tactical options. And shared final objective, that no one be deceived. If Sánchez is forced for reasons of state to remain silent in a secret commission as Feijóo proposes, the Puigdemont tactic will be reinforced and in a few weeks the slow deconstruction of the blocs in Catalan politics runs the risk of going backwards. And the passing of the days does nothing but complicate the maneuver. If at the beginning of the week, it might have seemed that a quick convening of the dialogue table with some victory for Aragonès served to suffocate the crisis, today it is abundantly clear that what Pegasus has united is not separated by a mere dose of dialogue but rather needs specific treatment. It is also true that, in the independence movement, the great principles weigh the same or more than the things of eating, and a part of Junts have less desire to break with socialism a year after the municipal elections with the electoral manna of the Diputación than Rufián despite his broadsides. As the classic said, everything is likely to get worse.