Cui prodest. Esteban González Pons could have resorted to this locution of Roman law about who benefits from a certain act to title his intervention this Tuesday at the Círculo Ecuestre, in which he has downplayed the revelations about the Catalunya operation.
“There is no investigative work, but a leak. “Someone is interested in giving that information,” said the PP leader when asked – after the presentation by the club’s president, Enrique Lacalle – by Silvia Angulo, editor-in-chief of Politics at La Vanguardia, the media outlet that, together with ElDiario. In other words, it is bringing to light the actions of the Interior leadership of the time of Jorge Fernández Díaz, in connivance with the so-called patriotic police, to discredit, through invented accusations and false evidence, the leaders of the independence process.
“It is more of the same against the same people and on the same issues,” the popular deputy has tried to settle, for whom there are “more serious” cases that do not appear in the press because they cannot be the “smoke screen.” according to the definition of the PP spokesperson in Congress, Miguel Tellado, what the Government needs to divert attention from the amnesty law.
They stole “three gigabytes of information, the equivalent of the entire Filmin catalogue,” from Pedro Sánchez’s mobile phone, González Pons said ironically, which is why the PP will take advantage of the creation of an investigation commission into the Pegasus spy program, agreed upon by the PSOE and ERC, to know the magnitude of the theft of this huge amount of data. And if it does not prosper, they will take the case to the Senate, where the popular party has an absolute majority, he has warned.
The determination of the PP deputy secretary of institutional affairs to divert the focus of his party’s maneuvers under the presidency of Mariano Rajoy to confront the process has led him to shoot one of the key institutions of the Spanish political system, the Court. Constitutional Court, which, in his opinion, under the presidency of Cándido Conde-Pumpido, has become “a cancer of the rule of law.” “Unfortunate” comparison that he later withdrew and for which he apologized: “In the PP we do know how to recognize an error.”
“The entire legal architecture is based on the fact that there is a court that is above everyone and that guarantees that those laws that go against the Constitution will be eliminated from the system,” González Pons has analyzed, but the Constitutional Court, in its current configuration, with presidency and progressive majority, is “politically contaminated” and does not fulfill its role as a “negative legislator”, but rather “usurps” the functions of the judicial and legislative powers: “The referee is deciding the result of the match,” he concluded.
In this sense, the Valencian politician has advanced that it would not be surprising if the PP decided not to appeal the amnesty law to the High Court, in case that would serve for a “constitutional mutation” – a change in spirit without altering the letter. of unintended consequences: “If we appeal, we will allow you to mutate the Constitution. If we do not appeal or do so through other means, we rob Pumpido of the possibility of changing the interpretation of the Constitution in his ruling,” he explained.
González Pons has even maintained that “the Conde-Pumpido Constitutional Court is a cancer of the Rule of Law.” He later wanted to rectify his words. “The comparison between the TC and cancer is not fortunate. I want to withdraw it and apologize very specifically to the people who suffer or have suffered from this disease. “In the PP we do know how to recognize a mistake.”
It was reaffirmed that “the PP will not leave any political, social or judicial avenue unexplored to avoid what it understands to be an illegal and unjust measure” and that, therefore, the party chaired by Alberto Núñez Feijóo will take it to the Constitutional Court. the amnesty law when it is definitively approved.
These precautions, in any case, González Pons continued, respond to the “blackmail” to which the Government is subjected by its parliamentary partners, who have “vampirized” the president. “Every night they go and suck some of his blood,” described the novelist, who, when asked how long the legislature will last, answered “whatever Sánchez’s health can endure,” since ERC, Junts per Catalunya and EH Bildu will not let it fall as long as they can continue squeezing it: “They are not going to find another mathematics that is better for their interests,” he argued.
And the thing is that Carles Puigdemont “saw the coupon and is going to collect it down to the last euro,” he joked about the results of the general elections on July 23, which left the key to the legislature in the hands of Junts, embodied in the processing of the amnesty, the promotion of the official status of Catalan in Europe and the bilateral negotiation with the PSOE through an international mediator.
“Talking is not bad,” admitted González Pons to confront the PP’s summer rapprochement with Junts, in which he himself played a relevant role when he suggested that Puigdemont’s party is “a party whose tradition and legality are not in doubt.” ”. But he immediately limited the scope of the political dialogue: “Negotiate according to what things are. What is deeply reprehensible is what the PSOE has done, which has negotiated something that was not its own, without consulting and counting on everyone,” he defended himself.