New controversy between the Government and the PP on behalf of Catalonia. If on Thursday the Government pointed to the Executive of the PP chaired by Mariano Rajoy as the author of the decision that allowed, with prior judicial authorization, to spy on the phone of the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, this Friday the PP responds that he ordered to investigate ERC and its president, by approving the CNI directive that led to the request to intervene in the president's cell phone.
Yesterday the Government sent three orders to the Barcelona judge that the CNI attributed to the president of the Generalitat the direction and coordination of the CDR protests. “Aragonès has directed the actions of the CDR,” says an excerpt. In another, he highlights that “Aragonès, always outside his institutional role and in hiding, has continued to perform the functions of coordinator of the CDR.” And he justified the intrusion into his cell phone “not because of his status as vice president of the Generalitat but because of the work of directing and coordinating the activities of the Defense Committees of the Republic.”
Immediately, the Government stressed that the wiretaps that were becoming known "are due to operations initiated by the CNI before we came to the Government and always had judicial authorization", to conclude that "the rule of law now operates and acts are carried out with transparency." , nothing to do with the parallel police and the dirty war of the PP stage."
The PP responded this morning to the Government by reminding it that the CNI "has the obligation to undertake whatever actions are necessary to protect the State from any risk or threat" and that it is the President of the Government who "authorizes the annual objectives of the CNI and in the Security Directive" and Sánchez approved those objectives and the security directive on March 18, 2019, and included as an objective "fight against those who have the will and capacity to subvert the constitutional order."
Therefore, the PP emphasizes, the Government of Pedro Sánchez "cannot claim ignorance." And if he approved that objective, the PP emphasizes, it is because "Sánchez considered ERC a dangerous party for territorial integrity and authorized it to be investigated while he sat with its leaders at a bilateral dialogue table to protect his mandate, even if it was at the cost to unprotect our country".
The Popular Party makes it clear that it "supports any action developed by Spanish Intelligence" and trusts "in the judgment of the professionals who promote them and the court that supports them." The popular ones also remind Sánchez that "the threats that existed in 2019 regarding the independence challenge are the same that exist today: those who called an illegal referendum say they will do it again and the State is more unprotected due to the elimination of the crime of sedition ".
In statements to journalists in Fitur, the president of the PP stressed that "now that it is proven" that she has been the president of the Government, the minister of Sánchez's Government and the director of Sánchez's CNI, "with the approval of a a judge of the Supreme Court", those who "tried to intervene in some of Mr. Aragonès's conversations, to prove whether or not he was behind violent movements", the only thing that the PP can do is respect the actions of the CNI and the judge who authorized it. you listen to them.
But Feijóo emphasizes that this occurred at the same time that the president "was negotiating his investiture," which in his opinion is "a self-righteousness that is going to crack as soon as we have more information" and see "what the director says." of the CNI". For this reason, the president of the PP is not going to criticize the government for authorizing the spying on Aragonès, as long as these actions are "in accordance with the law" and, he assured, "we are not going to criticize the Government for complying with its obligation", although it will do by "lying and deceiving citizens and pro-independence supporters".
They also emphasize in the PP that "the actions of the CDR that motivated that investigation into ERC are those that will be amnestied by the law that is approved on Tuesday and without which Sánchez would not be president."
For this reason, Feijóo's party expresses the contradiction between "the President of the Government going from investigating parties to prevent crimes to eliminating them to agree with political formations investigated at his direction." He also recalls that the Government dismissed the director of the CNI "at the request of ERC", and the Supreme Court "is considered by the Government an enemy of the State and an institution to combat and amend."
The PP also remembers that ERC has known about these eavesdropping for a long time, and yet "supports Sánchez", because it is convenient for him to "continue having a docile president", since "the best deal that the independence movement can do, after that of the 3% "is supporting a president accustomed to extortion."
The popular ones warn that "the same Government that has been wanting to make issues that have already been judicialized and from four terms ago into the news for weeks", in reference to the Catalunya operation, "is putting itself in profile in the face of issues that occurred under the Presidency of the current head of the Executive."
Alberto Núñez Feijóo also referred to the orders of Judge García Castellón with the orders that try to ensure that the amnesty does not reach Puigdemont and the CDR. For the president of the PP, "a country where justice is disqualified by the Government, and judges are accused by the Government, is a country where the rule of law is breaking down" and that the rule of law is in an "absolutely limit situation." ".
For this reason, Judge García Castellón, and any other judge, has the support of the PP, because judges, he said, have the obligation to enforce the law and apply the Penal Code, and if he did not do so, he would have a responsibility for omission. .
