There have been no revelations this morning in the investigation commission of the Pegasus case in Parliament where Pablo Iglesias appeared. The former vice president of the Government during 2019 and 2020 – Pegasus’s espionage of 60 pro-independence leaders and representatives of civil society spans from 2017 to 2020 – has indicated that he did not have any information about the existence of this espionage and that it was not a issue that was deliberated in the Council of Ministers.
Therefore, the parliamentary commission, the questions to Iglesias and his answers have become more of an analysis of the current political situation. The former vice president and leader of Podemos has indicated that he was not aware during his mandate of this alleged espionage by the Government itself, which “would seem very serious” if confirmed. If Pere Aragonès’ phone was tapped in the midst of negotiations on the investiture, Iglesias said, the president will never trust Pedro Sánchez, and this is “good news for the right.”
The former vice president has made it clear that espionage by the State must be an exceptional issue and always as a way to prevent crime. For this reason, he has insisted that if it was done within the framework of an investiture negotiation to take advantage, it would be something “extremely serious.”
He also took the opportunity to make reference to the espionage also through the Pegasus spyware to the President of the Government and the Minister of Defense, to emphasize that at that time it should have been Margarita Robles who resigned and not the president of the CNI.
The questions have been asked by the groups of the PSC, ERC, Junts, the CUP and En Comú Podem, and Iglesias in his answers has considered that there is indeed a “coup” by the judicial right, which wants to impose its political will on the legislator . He has thus pointed out the actions of Judge García Castellón with the amnesty law and has reminded the left that the state is not neutral, that it is a territory in dispute and that it is necessary to ensure that the officials -police, justice…- understand their plurality.
For Iglesias, Spain is a democracy but not consolidated, he has indicated that the State sewers are not an exception and that they exist since terrorism served as an excuse in the Transition to make profound changes. And when asked by Junts he referred to the role of the Monarchy. He has indicated that Juan Carlos I managed to disassociate his role from the Spanish right and now the scenario is different when he understands that the political role of the Monarchy has changed, becoming a conservative “political actor.”
There has, therefore, been a lot of analysis on the current political context, but no information that, in principle, could advance the conclusions of the Parliament’s investigation commission.
