This Tuesday, Pedro Sánchez himself raised the new journalistic revelations to the debate within the Council of Ministers, the result of the joint investigation being carried out by La Vanguardia and Eldiario.es, on the use of the resources of the State during the mandates. of Mariano Rajoy to persecute the Catalan independence movement. For the President of the Government, this is “a very serious event” to which he wants to give maximum political relevance. And sources from the Executive have indicated that there was “a lot of interest” among the members of the Council of Ministers to analyze an issue that, in the opinion of the spokesperson minister, Pilar Alegría, is “enormously serious.”
The Government has thus opened the door today for former President Rajoy to appear in the commission of inquiry into the Catalunya operation opened in Congress. And he has raised the bar of political responsibility against the current leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, whom he has reproached for “a clamorous silence” in the face of these new journalistic revelations.
At Moncloa they have thus woven together Rajoy's behavior as head of the Executive with Feijóo's attitude, now, as leader of the opposition. “The serious thing here is the way the Popular Party acts. When they are in government, they clearly use all the levers of the rule of law to spy on and persecute their political opponents. And when they are in the opposition, they propose outlawing all those political parties that do not think like them. This is what is especially serious,” Pilar Alegría highlighted. “These are embarrassing and shameful behaviors,” she stressed.
The minister spokesperson has clearly opened the door for Rajoy to appear in the commission of inquiry into the Catalunya operation opened in Congress in this legislature, in line with the demands of Junts and Esquerra. “It is essential that everything is known and clarified. Therefore, we must not rule out the appearance of any member of the previous PP administration,” Alegría assured.
“The facts that we are learning about are extremely serious, and we are going to reach the ultimate consequences, analyzing even the smallest detail of all the documentation,” assured the Government spokesperson, in line with the statements that the Government himself made the day before. Sanchez. At Moncloa they limit this action, at least for now, to the investigation of the parliamentary commission and highlight that the new journalistic revelations "demonstrate the opportunity" to establish it in this legislature.
In addition to targeting Rajoy, the Government also focuses on Feijóo. “Faced with the knowledge of the seriousness of these events, the absolute silence of Feijóo and the PP is all too evident. A clamorous silence,” Pilar Alegría stressed. “We hope and hope that the PP, and especially Feijóo, will give explanations,” she warned.
