The Parliament approves denouncing the alleged espionage of independence leaders with Pegasus


The plenary session of the Catalan Parliament has approved this Wednesday to present a complaint for the alleged espionage more than 60 people linked to independence through the Pegasus program, with the votes in favor ofand CKDJunts, PSC, comuns and CUP, and against Vox, Cs and PP.

The Table approved this Tuesday to submit to the plenary session a proposal to file a complaint “on behalf of Parliament” before the judicial authorities to investigate the alleged monitoring, uncovered by the research center The Citizen Lab and ‘The New Yorker’.

The plenary session began with the reading of the statement by the Board of Spokespersons, which condemns alleged “political espionage” and demands that the State take measures to eradicate it, and that the President of the Parliament, Laura Borràs, has read.

The PSC deputy and first secretary of the Parliamentary Board, Ferran Pedret, has stated that the socialists are “absolutely in favor of clarifying the facts” –as they were in 2018 and 2020 with other cases of alleged espionage, he has said– and that they are against any intervention in communications that does not have legal protection.

On behalf of the ERC, Jordi Orobitg has criticized that the minister Margaret Oaks I said I didn’t know ‘The New Yorker’and has maintained that the deputies of the Catalan Chamber who do not rule in favor of presenting a complaint “are part of the problem and not the solution”.

The deputy of Junts Mònica Sales has called it a scandal that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has not given explanations about the case and believes that it is his last opportunity to demonstrate that his Government preserves human rights: “Either commission, or complicity” .

The third secretary of the Board, Carlos Rivera (CUP), has demanded responsibility, veracity and transparency, and has warned that “there are no reasons to participate in the stability of this political institutional and legal framework” or to maintain political relations with the Government with common projects such as the Olympic Games .

The leader of the comuns in Parliament, Jéssica Albiach, has maintained that this is “a conflict between democrats and conspirators, between the rule of law and the deep state”, and that as part of the coalition Executive they are the first interested in knowing the truth, that responsibilities are purged and that resignations occur, he assured.

Cs, PP and Vox, against

From Vox, Joan Garriga has said that his group is against the alleged espionage to which he assures that Catalan children are subjected in the classrooms, and has added: “Gentlemen of the PSC, separatism is not fought by spying. It is being fought by separating it from the institutions and the influence of the Government of Spain and making it illegal.”

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On the C’s side, Carlos Carrizosa has reproached Borràs for having expelled the deputy Matías Alonso after protesting the reading of the statement by the Board of Spokespersons, and regarding the alleged espionage, he said: “If in their ranks they have several of their leaders convicted of sedition and embezzlement, if they have broken the institutional consensus and have tried to overwhelm more than half of the Catalans, what less than that the intelligence services of the State take action in the matter and under the law control specific people”.

The president of the Catalan PP, Alejandro Fernández, has recalled that the Parliament did not file a complaint in an alleged case of espionage by the Mossos against constitutionalist politicians in 2018, and has defended that, as then, the Chamber should remain “outside” as an institution that represents everyone.


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