Aragonès urges to meet with Sánchez, who reiterates his willingness

Eleven days after greeting each other in Barcelona and calling for a meeting to discuss the espionage scandal with Pegasus known as Catalangate, the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, and the president of the central government, Pedro Sánchez, do not have a date for this meeting.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
18 May 2022 Wednesday 05:31
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Aragonès urges to meet with Sánchez, who reiterates his willingness

Eleven days after greeting each other in Barcelona and calling for a meeting to discuss the espionage scandal with Pegasus known as Catalangate, the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, and the president of the central government, Pedro Sánchez, do not have a date for this meeting. For this reason, the Catalan, one of those spied on by the National Intelligence Center with Israeli spyware, has urged this Wednesday to find the moment to meet while the Chief Executive limits himself to maintaining his disposition.

"It is extremely urgent that I meet with Pedro Sánchez, but it does not depend on me and it is not about taking a picture between two presidents," said the president on the program "Aquí Cuní" of Ser Catalunya, to insist on the need to declassify documents and knowing "who gave the order and who had knowledge".

For Aragonès, who has explained that since they saw each other on May 6 at the delivery of an award to the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, he has only spoken with Sánchez by phone this Monday due to the railway accident in Sant Boi, the Government "is not acting clearly" to regain confidence with the Government. "They are treating the institutions of Catalonia like the institutions of a subjugated country, second-class," denounced the head of the Catalan Executive. "They consider that we are not State institutions, worthy of being defended," he added.

The president of the Generalitat has elaborated that the Government "is not making progress" and has lamented that the Sánchez Executive "started from a very wrong calculation of the scope" of the espionage scandal. In his opinion, he "is not making the right decisions." "We are witnessing a smoke screen so that responsibilities are not assumed. The one who must rectify is Pedro Sánchez", concluded Aragonès.

“The confidence that the Government of Spain has in re-establishing dialogue with the Catalan institutions as soon as possible is total, absolute and resounding. Of course, the Government is willing to meet, in my case with the president of the Generalitat de Catalunya or the dialogue table, when it also considers the Catalan side", Sánchez assured in Congress when asked by the spokesperson for EH Bildu, Mertxe Aizpurua , for his actions to recompose the majority of the investiture.


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