ERC wants to summon in Congress, in the investigation commission on the so-called Catalunya operation, the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and his four predecessors (Pablo Casado, Mariano Rajoy and José María Aznar), as well as other members of governments of the PP such as the former vice president Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, and the former ministers Cristóbal Montoro, Luis de Guindos, María Dolores de Cospedal or Jorge Fernández Díaz, among others, the judge of the National Court Manuel García-Castellón and the last three officials of the National Center of Intelligence (CNI), Félix Sanz Roldán, Paz Esteban and Esperanza Casteleiro.
This appears in the list of more than sixty appearances that ERC has registered this Tuesday for this new parliamentary investigation into the so-called sewers of the Ministry of the Interior in the first Rajoy Government, one of the three commissions that the independentists agreed with the socialists in exchange for support Francina Armengol in the Presidency of Congress and thus give PSOE and Sumar the majority in the Chamber Table.
In any case, the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts, Félix Bolaños, stated this Tuesday that the PSOE will comply with the law and prevent judges and magistrates from appearing in the investigative commissions created in Congress at the request of its allies. parliamentarians.
“The groups will be able to make whatever requests they wish, but the PSOE will comply with the law,” he stated at the press conference of the Council of Ministers regarding the intention of the Catalan forces to request the appearance of judges.
On the one hand, ERC wants to call a good part of the PP leadership of recent decades to this investigation commission. In addition to Feijóo and former presidents Casado, Rajoy and Aznar, the pro-independence formation includes the general secretary María Dolores Cospedal and her husband, the businessman Ignacio López del Hierro, as well as numerous ministers and senior officials.
The list includes former vice president Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría and former ministers Jorge Fernández Díaz, Rafael Catalá, Alberto Ruiz Gallardón, Luis de Guindos, Cristóbal Montoro and José Ignacio Zoido. The current Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, also appears.
The Republicans also want the protagonists of the State sewers to testify, such as former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, former deputy director of the Police Eugenio Pino, his former chief of staff José Angel Fuentes Gago, as well as Marcelino Martin Blas, former head of Internal Affairs of the Police, Enrique García Castaño, former head of the Central Operational Support Unit of the Police, Ignacio Cosidó, former Director General of the Police and Francisco Martínez, former Secretary of State for Security and number two to Fernánez Díaz.
The Supreme Court prosecutor Javier Zaragoza and the former chief prosecutor of Catalonia Martín Rodríguez Sol also appear on the list, one of the victims of the State sewers, whose situation the Prosecutor’s Office is investigating in one of the few open cases.