The independence movement questions the espionage of Sánchez and Robles


  • Junqueras speaks of a “smokescreen” and continues to demand that the Government assume responsibilities

  • Junts and the CUP accuse the members of the Government of wanting to “go from executioners to victims”

Esquerra, Junts and the CUP are trying to refocus espionage on the independence movement, after the government announced that the president Pedro Sanchez and the Defense Minister, Margaret Oakswere also victims in 2021 of Pegasus, the Israeli program that allows mobile phone hacking. CKD, together Y cup they have questioned whether the Executive has been subject to surveillance -they interpret the announcement as a smokescreen- and have once again pressed for an investigation commission in the Congress of Deputies. Also the Government, through the mouth of its spokesperson, Patrícia Plaja, has insisted that, in any case, the main person responsible for the case is the Government.

The president of the ERC, Oriol Junqueras, has said that the questions that have been put to the Government since the case came to light are still valid. “It is evident that it could be a smokescreen to try to dilute its responsibilities in espionage against the independence movement,” he said. “We do not know exactly how much credibility we should give it. We do not know to what extent the Government is a victim of the espionage that it has allowed independence,” he added.

“Why should we give more credibility to a government minister when he gives us information about his intelligence services than when Citizen Lab denounces it? [el laboratorio de la Universidad de Toronto que desveló el escándalo]? The government deserves very little trustwe deserve more media of the prestige of ‘The New Yorker'”, he has riveted.

At all times, Junqueras has assumed that it has been the State that “has ordered, has allowed or has not prevented” espionage. And he has affirmed that, whether Moncloa was aware of it or not -if it were, for example, a unilateral initiative from the sewers of the State-, it must assume responsibilities “the sooner the better”. Last week, the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, already requested the resignation of Margarita Robles.

“Europe’s Biggest Scandal”

“The questions that we have asked in the last two weeks remain unanswered. Who ordered the independentistas to spy? From when, until when, what guarantees are there that we are not still victims of massive espionage? How can we know that what what the Government explains today is true? What credibility can we give it?”, insisted Junqueras.

They are questions similar to those that the Government spokeswoman has asked herself. Plaja, in addition, has complained about the “double standard” -when those affected are members of the Government, the legal springs are activated, and when they are independentists, they are not, he has said- and has assured that the case is “the most important political espionage scandal in Europe”.

The spokesman for together, Joseph Rius, has insisted on putting sovereignty at the center and has disgraced the government that has gone “from denying espionage to the independence movement to presenting itself as its victim”. “They try to go from executioners to victims […] The fact that Sánchez is a victim does not exempt him from giving explanations or assuming responsibilities: either there is incompetence or there is complicity,” he stressed.

The couperos have delved into the same message: “Don’t pass off executioners as victims. Stop smoke screens. We are exactly at the same point as last week, that a State publicly justifies that anything goes against the independence movement and that he has been spied on”, defended the deputy Xavier Pellicer from the Parliament, asking that the CNI, the Police and the courts be held accountable and that this “stratagem” by the central Executive not be taken into account.

The future of dialogue

The president of the ERC has not wanted to clearly answer the question of whether the Republicans are not going to support the Government again until it assumes responsibilities for espionage. He did say that among “basic rights and freedoms” is “being able to live with the certainty that they are not spying on you, and that” the Government must give guarantees in this regard “.

For Junts, there is no other option than to “open the sewers of the State and disinfect them”, for which it demands that relations remain on ‘stand by’: “Until responsibilities are clarified, no type of dialogue can be maintained with the Government” , Rius has asserted.

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As for the dialogue table between the Government and the Generalitat, which the ‘president’ Pere Aragones already considered “frozen” when the espionage case became known, Junqueras has said that “ERC is convinced that negotiation is a tool to resolve political conflicts.” “Who has put it in danger is the State: when one of the parties at a negotiation table spies on the other, making the conditions of that table very difficult“, he assured.

The ‘commons’ have considered that “the deep state has emancipated itself from the law and is in a dirty war against democracy” because this is an “extremely serious” matter as there is “a conspiracy against democracy”, while the PSC has called for justice to be carried to the end: “The new information reinforces that there have been democratic governments that have been systematically spied on, in more than 20 countries. What we do not do is underestimate in no way the information from weeks ago. The same measures of the Government have to be applied, which are rigorous and necessary”, has cleared Lluisa Moret.


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