Sparrowhawk and dove. On the one hand, the most progressive government in history, champion of all citizen rights that have been and will be. On the other, the executive who jumps with heeled boots on the most basic human rights. The two things at the same time are impossible to handle. Meat or fish. Right-handed and left-handed at the same time it will be no. That is why Pedro Sánchez has a problem. Or two, to be more accurate: the Melilla tragedy and political espionage with the Pegasus program. Fernando Grande-Marlaska and Margarita Robles. The first more serious than the second. And both resurrected thanks to the work carried out beyond the Spanish borders.
The British BBC has given air to the Melilla tragedy and the European Parliament, to espionage with Israeli software, of which we now know at least the price: six million tocateja.
Everything indicates that Grande-Marlaska has lied about the border catastrophe. The entire Congress, with the exception of the PSOE, is looking for the tickles. There were dead and wounded migrants on Spanish soil who did not receive medical attention and who were dragged back to Moroccan soil. The minister continues clinging to the initial version of him that denies the facts. Spain was just watching and it was all up to the Alawites, who ended up congratulated by Pedro Sánchez for a performance that resulted in 23 official deaths but to which must be added, according to the latest journalistic revelations, 77 disappeared. The oldest of the place will remember the most famous epitaph of the long-awaited Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba on the eve of the 2004 general elections, after the Islamist attacks of 11-M in Madrid: “The Spanish deserve a government that does not lie to them”. So it was and so it is. We deserve a Minister of the Interior who does not deceive us. It's not just the BBC anymore. Also the images revealed by El País and La Ser. Gente, the latter, which does not wish the Government of Pedro Sánchez ill. The truth breaks through and leaves Grande-Marlaska naked. And it is the same as the lie is premeditated or induced by his subordinates. In politics, the minister's chair has the ergonomics of a fuse when the trap is discovered, regardless of who set it off. And the trap has been exposed. Of course, being the African corpses, there is always the possibility that we all end up looking the other way. After all, the dead, like the living, are not all the same. It will depend fundamentally on the parliamentary partners of the PSOE and on how big a toad they are willing to swallow.
The other front is the Ministry of Defense and its head, Margarita Robles. The European Parliament's report on political espionage – a draft pending amendments and voting – makes it clear that Spain practiced political espionage, given that there is no way to prove why the independentistas who suffered it – even those that the CNI has acknowledged having carried out with a court order, such as the one suffered by the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès– were in 2019 a threat to national security. The episode ended with the shameful dismissal of the director of the CNI, Paz Esteban, who alone paid the bill for an episode of espionage that is unimaginable without the express knowledge of the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, and also the Prime Minister. Pedro Sánchez, who is ultimately the one who receives the executive notes from the CNI. ERC should explain, being one of the most affected parties in the case, its lukewarmness on the matter. The reasons that have led her to accept as sufficient the head of an intelligence professional who did not act behind the back of her government but with her full consent. As in this matter the peace between socialists and republicans is signed, changes in the script are not to be expected imminently. Grande-Marlaska has it much worse. And the most progressive government in history is almost nuanced. Just add "sometimes" to the end of the slogan. Or what is the same, only when appropriate.
