The third commission of investigation on the political police in Congress —which this time intended to investigate the so-called Operation Catalonia— has declined with the dissolution of the Cortes Generales without its work having served to resolve a single unknown about the maneuvers to discredit to pro-independence leaders during the most critical moments of the process.
The feeling among the different groups that promoted the creation of the commission can be summed up as frustration. After spending months in limbo in the Congress of Deputies, the commission was reactivated when the Tito Berni scandal broke out within its parliamentary group for the PSOE.
Many saw in this maneuver by the Socialists — whose votes were essential for the commission to finally get rolling — the way to cover up the murky case in which commissions, parties and prostitutes were mixed. The pro-independence partners, genuinely interested in the investigation into Operation Catalonia, were in favor of starting it.
From there, the vetoes of appearing parties began between the different political parties. The groups presented independent lists without previously agreeing, so they dedicated themselves to laying down each other. Nobody gave in. Until after two completely unsuccessful meetings, a minimum list was approved with only two attendees, the former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo and the former director of the Private Bank of Andorra Higini Cierco, whose attendance was postponed due to scheduling problems.
In this way, the only person who was called to go to parliamentary headquarters was the highest representative of the State Sewers; the policeman Villarejo, who turned his appearance —full of lies— into revenge against his arch-enemy Félix Sanz Roldán, former director of the CNI. “It must be that the march is going when it comes to listening to lies, right?” He even told the deputies at one point.
After that, the groups approved a new list of appearing parties to whom there has not been time to call, since their interventions were scheduled for the end of June. Parliamentary sources are pessimistic with the idea that this commission can be reopened in the next legislature, since “although there is a progressive majority, the PSOE has never had any real interest”
