The Government and the PSOE do not let go of the so-called Catalunya operation, given the alleged use of the resources of the State to persecute the Catalan independence movement during the mandates of Mariano Rajoy – some “very serious events”, in the opinion of Pedro Sánchez – which are revealing the joint journalistic investigation that La Vanguardia and Eldiario.es has been carrying out for a week. The first vice president of the Government and deputy general secretary of the PSOE, María Jesús Montero, denounced this Saturday that these maneuvers of the Popular Party “attack the rule of law.”
Montero has harshly replied, on the second day of the PSOE political convention held in A Coruña, to the PP spokesperson in Congress, the Galician Miguel Tellado, who has considered his complaints a mere “smokescreen” from the Government. on the Catalunya operation, which the socialists also demand results in “immediate” judicial proceedings. The first vice president has insisted on highlighting the seriousness of what the PSOE calls “the Watergate of the PP”, by criticizing “the improper, fraudulent and shameful use of State media for partisan interests.”
“A smokescreen? As if the seriousness of the anti-democratic events that threaten the rule of law, as we probably haven’t seen for a long time, were an invention of the PSOE, we don’t really know why,” Montero stressed.
The first vice president has assured that the first thing in democracy is to “respect public institutions and the powers of the State”, in addition to its independence. “And never ever use it to enrich themselves fraudulently, so that corruption makes its way, and never use it to spy, presumably, on those they consider enemies of Spain, which are all those who do not think like the PP,” he stressed. .
Montero has also directed the spotlight against the current leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who is tiptoeing around this scandal of alleged political espionage and harassment against independence leaders. “Since Aznar, we have not found a leader of the PP who has less shame when it comes to lying,” he criticized. And he has ironized Feijóo’s assertion that he does not govern because he does not want to. “I’m also not tall and blonde because I don’t want to,” the first vice president of the Government concluded, amidst great applause from the plenary session of the PSOE political convention.
