The list of participants in the investigative commission on Pegasus espionage – in charge of studying espionage on journalists, politicians and pro-independence activists – constituted in Congress continues to show great differences between the investiture partners as was revealed this Tuesday With the decision of PSOE and Sumar to leave aside the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, whose appearance had been requested by the ERC parliamentary group.
The socialist denial, advanced by Ferraz sources, has been supported by Sumar’s spokesperson, Íñigo Errejón, who in his argument has limited himself to alleging that the plurinational group “is part of the Government.”
Along with that of Pegasus, the PSOE also agreed to create two other commissions for the 2017 attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils, and for the so-called Catalunya operation, in exchange for ERC and Junts supporting Francina Armengol as president of Congress and guaranteeing a progressive majority on the institution’s Board. Although the third of them, the one that investigates the alleged parapolice plot launched during the PP governments to attack the Catalan independence movement even with the fabrication of false incriminating evidence, is progressing late due to the lack of agreement between the convening parties.
The PSOE and its allies disagree about the convenience of collecting testimony from judges like Manuel García Castellón. ERC, and also Sumar, are inclined to summon the magistrates, although the PSOE alleges the commitment signed with the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe not to summon them to exempt them from reporting on the merits of their cases to anyone “outside the Judiciary.” “.
At a press conference, the socialist spokesperson, Patxi López, downplayed the delay and indicated that the presidency of the Commission – in the hands of Sumar Txema Guijarro’s deputy – has decided to postpone it because some proposals had arrived later than expected and An agreement was still being worked on.
In any case, the PSOE hopes that the electoral call in Catalonia does not alter the planned plans and the investigation commissions can begin to function in Congress in the coming weeks.
Differences also exist in the approach to the work of the commission of the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks. While ERC and Junts have already made it clear in their work proposals that they want to focus the investigations on the role that the National Intelligence Center (CNI) would have played and its relationship with the imam of Ripoll, mastermind of the attacks, the PSOE and Sumar have registered a roadmap in which they limit themselves to proposing the method that the commission must follow, but without going into details.