What is known so far about the official secrets bill that the Government will approve today to start a long process does not seem to convince almost anyone.
To start with its main promoter, the PNV, which has been asking for a review of the current regulations dating from 1968, in the midst of Franco's regime, for six years.
The PNV spokesman in Congress, Aitor Esteban, believes the preliminary draft is "disappointing" and estimates that the declassification deadlines are "exaggeratedly long." In a message on his social networks, however, he maintains that "It is good news, but it is late, very late."
The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, has asked Pedro Sánchez for an agreement on the new official secrets law. In her opinion, State policies must "agree with the Popular Party" but the Prime Minister has "broken" that tradition and only seeks to "please" parties like ERC to continue in La Moncloa.
Along the same lines, the PP Deputy Secretary of Economy, Juan Bravo, lamented this Monday that the Government prefers to inform Bildu before the Popular Party about the future law, a rule that, he recalled, is "very sensitive" because it affects national security.
The popular leader defends that in a norm as important as this, the two big parties should try to reach an agreement so that it lasts over time and does not respond to political demands to maintain one government or another.
Bravo has affirmed that the Government has not maintained contact with the PP before drawing up this draft, despite the fact that this political group "has extended its hand" and has "shown the will" to reach agreements.
For his part, the president of the United We Can parliamentary group, Jaume Asens, commented on his social networks that "hiding secrets from citizens for 50 years or more is treating them as minors. It is not characteristic of mature democracies to be afraid to know" .
Before Asens, the spokesman for Más País in the Congress of Deputies, Íñigo Errejón, has spoken out, who has assured on his networks: "A democracy is all the stronger the more transparency it can assume. The Government's official secrets law proposal is disappointing and continues to treat Spaniards as minors".
For her part, the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, described the new law on Monday as "absolutely essential" and added that "in the parliamentary process there may be improvements."
Robles has agreed that it be the Department of the Presidency, chaired by Minister Félix Bolaños, who assumes control of the classified documentation instead of the Department of Defense, which until now was the competent ministry in this matter.
