The Government travels to BCN to try to unravel the conflict over Pegasus

The Government takes a first public step to try to reduce the tension due to ‘Catalangate’, due to the case of the alleged mass espionage leaders and pro-independence leaders, whose authorship is currently unknown. The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, absolute right-hand man of President Pedro Sánchez, travels to Barcelona this Sunday to meet at 10 a.m. at the Palau de la Generalitat with the ‘consellera’ of the Presidency, the Republican Laura Vilagrà, a trusted woman in turn for Pere Aragonès. The two governments released their respective communiqué announcing the call, without specifying the content of the interview, although it logically responds to the outrage of the Government with the central Executive for the infiltration of the cell phones of more than 60 pro-independence leaders of the Pegasus and Candiru spy programs. both Israeli-made. After the appointment, Bolaños will appear before the media, first, and Vilagrà later.

The call comes after five days in which separatism has increased its demands on the Government. With a trip to Madrid de Aragonès included to coordinate a joint response from the affected parties from there. “It makes no sense that the Prime Minister, to this day, still have not given any explanation“, the ‘president’ Sánchez reproached him this Saturday before Bolaños’ trip was made official. From ERC they had already alerted the Executive that his policy of alliances in Congress was left up in the air after the massive espionage was revealed, but no those responsible or implicated. ERC is the bipartite’s main investiture partner.

The head of the Presidency, in charge of relations with the Generalitat, had significantly emptied its public agenda in recent days, precisely to try to rebuild the bridges with the Government. Thus, the Sunday meeting is the first concrete fruit of these “contacts“Prior and discreet, as reported by the Executive.

For the Government, Moncloa sources indicated, “it is very important to continue maintaining the same desire for dialogue that has been practicing so far” with the Generalitat since Sánchez came to power, in June 2018.

The Executive insists that it is betting “and will continue betting on the dialogue and agreement“, and they emphasize that it is key to be aware of what the previous situation was, in the fall of the ‘procés’ of 2017 and after the Supreme Court’s condemnation of the pro-independence leaders, to realize that “this is the path to follow, the institutional cooperation and dialogue“, because the Catalans and the rest of Spaniards “will appreciate it”.