The Minister of the Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena, immersed in a series of controversies that affect the body of the Mossos d'Esquadra and of which the PSC has made a flag to charge against the Government of Pere Aragonès, has insinuated that the Socialists are making pay for the fact of having left the party eight years ago.
"They warned me that being a former socialist militant there is a certain tendency to think that you have to pay for it," assured the minister when asked in an interview in La 2 about the opposition made by the socialist group in Parliament that has called "overreacted".
The minister, who left the socialist militancy in 2014 in disagreement with the party when he understood that he deviated from the "right to decide" that he defended, has pointed to the first secretary of the PSC, Salvador Illa, whom he has accused of maintaining a " very bitter hardness" towards his person and "somewhat false, which means false".
Just yesterday, the socialist group in the Catalan Chamber accused the minister of "disloyalty", "neglect" and "obstruction" and Elena reproached them for turning the security department of the Barcelona City Council into "an electoral agency of Mr Collboni" to go “against the Government and against its partners”. The PSC questioned the Government about the management of the Department after spending weeks demanding that the president of the Generalitat dismiss Elena for her management in the latest crisis that has affected the Mossos, the relief for the fifth time in four years of the police leadership after the dismissal of chief commissioner Josep Maria Estela.
Regarding the controversies that affect the Catalan police, Elena has wanted to avoid them and has maintained her well-known positions while guaranteeing the stability of the body. Specifically, regarding the words of Major Josep Lluís Trapero, who last week warned in Parliament about the political interests that prevent the Mossos from being a democratically advanced police force, Elena has refused to argue with a commander of the body, understanding that it would be entering a unacceptable dynamic on his part and limited his statements to personal opinions. "He has every right to be hurt, angry or upset, like any citizen."
In any case, the head of the Interior has reiterated his rejection of the political interference in the operation or in judicial investigations denounced by various groups and insinuated by Trapero himself and has summoned those who say so to take him to the Prosecutor's Office because "it is a crime ". "While I have been there, they have not been produced and I am not aware of them before", Elena pointed out to make it clear that if it is shown that there have been, the person who has done them "will come out in a balloon". She has also repeated, as on previous occasions, that she will not accept police interference in what corresponds to the political sphere.
In this sense, the minister has defended his decision to opt for a choral dome of the body, heavily criticized by Trapero last week, as a political decision that he is responsible for making. "It could be a success or a mistake but in any case it is a political decision, it seems to me that it is the best and that must be repeated", warned Elena, who has insisted that "it can be shared or not but it is the responsibility of the minister ".
