The former president of the Generalitat Artur Mas has responded to the statements of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, about the legitimacy of the State to protect itself, and has asked if the Madrid president would consider any tool, whether “legal”. and illegal?”
“To smear for the sake of smearing? make up stories? Create police dossiers to harm certain people? Influence the people's vote in elections?”, listed the former president in an interview on Catalunya Ràdio this Friday. “Are those normal tools in a state of democracy and in a state of law?” Mas questioned.
“Anything that is a tool for the State to protect itself seems fine to me. And I think that any State in the world does that,” Ayuso said yesterday Thursday in an interview for the same medium.
“Any tool, says Mrs. Ayuso,” Mas replied. “If it justified that illegal too, we already know where we are. We would be, not in a democracy, nor in a rule of law. We would be in another era that others remember with nostalgia,” replied Mas.
“The State can protect itself within the law, not outside or against the law,” the former president has clearly established. “It is evident that in Operation Catalunya they acted absolutely against the law with total impunity,” Mas reasoned, in relation to the latest revelations about the case offered by La Vanguardia and Eldiario.es.
In addition, the former convergent leader has called the espionage of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) on the independence leaders "a direct attack against the rights of people and fundamental rights."
In the same sense, Mas has assured that the Catalunya operation is a “State operation” that, in his opinion, “has had a reward” because no investigation has yet been opened in this regard.
“Once it has been discovered, it must have a judicial process,” said the former president, who has demanded that “at least there be consequences” and that the case be investigated “until the end, no matter who falls.” Mas has also asked that "an attempt be made to clarify responsibilities", since, in his opinion, this is an "elementary issue from a democratic health point of view."
