Junts per Catalunya will file a lawsuit, as a political formation, against those responsible for the Catalonia operation. This has been announced by the general secretary of the party, Jordi Turull, who has specified that they are still studying the judicial route that they will take and against whom they will direct the letter. In statements to Catalunya Ràdio, the post-convergent leader has guaranteed that they will not remain “contemplative” in the face of the information that has been appearing -such as that recently published by La Vanguardia- about the political, judicial, police and media framework.
Junts had already explained that he was studying what legal actions he could take and today he has revealed that the way he is betting is to file a complaint, and not by appearing in the case that is already open. The list of recipients of the same has not yet been defined, but the training does have a clear objective: “Identify the x of the operation”. Turull has already advanced that it is intended to reach, ultimately, the European courts, given the little confidence – he has admitted – that he maintains with the Spanish justice system.
The Secretary General believes that the origin of the Catalonia operation “comes from higher up” and that it cannot be reduced to just one minister (the Interior Minister, Jorge Fernández Díaz) “overzealous”. For Turull, the Catalonia operation has continued with the espionage case known as Catalangate, which “cannot be understood as an isolated case.” It is, therefore, “a dynamic of the State against the independence movement,” according to the leader of Junts.
Precisely on the Catalangate and the visit of a delegation of the European Parliament in Madrid between Monday and Tuesday, Turull has made ugly the president Pere Aragonès that he did not defend the former president Carles Puigdemont before the words of the former minister Juan Ignacio Zoido, now an MEP. The popular brandished Puigdemont’s links with Russia to justify espionage with Pegasus. Junts was “very hurt”, Turull assured, that “there was no defense” from the president in his reply to Zoido’s “lies”, and that he limited himself to saying “that he had nothing to do” with this case.
The discomfort in Junts not only originates from the words of Aragonès, but also because their representatives were unable to intervene yesterday during the meeting with the mission of the European Parliament. The secretary general has reproached Esquerra (which has more weight than Junts -he has highlighted- in the Pegasus commission) for not having “a point of generosity” with the appearances before the MEPs (the president Pere Aragonès, the minister Meritxell Serret intervened and the Republican leader in Barcelona, ??Ernest Maragall). This fact meant “not taking advantage”, in the opinion of Jordi Turull, the appearances of the “victims” to reflect “the dimension of the action of the sewers”.
Also regarding the visit of the MEPs, Junts’ thesis is that the Congress of Deputies set the motion of censure for yesterday “expressly” to make both events coincide. Jordi Turull has complained that they placed a “distraction element” so that the media focus was not focused on spying on independentistas. Precisely, the representatives of the European Parliament could not meet with any government minister (they did meet with the Secretary of State for the European Union) nor with the Defense Commission of the Lower House. “It is the concept of the State: first the unity of Spain and then, if there is space, fundamental rights come,” denounced one of the Junts leaders.
Turull has not been spared from criticizing ERC in relation to the drought decree that the Government will carry in Parliament today. The post-convergents do not guarantee their vote in favor, understanding that there has been a lack of dialogue. “It depends on the intervention of the consellera” in the chamber, he has warned. For Junts to finally give its support -Turull explained- the head of the Climate Action Department, Teresa Jordà, will have to commit to “assuming the measures that come out of consensus” and approve another decree later.
