Cui prodest Esteban González Pons could have resorted to this locution of Roman law on who benefits from a certain act to headline his intervention yesterday at the Círculo Ecuestre, in which he took iron out of the revelations about Operation Catalunya.
“There is no investigative work, but a leak. Someone is interested in giving that information”, said the leader of the PP when he was asked – after the presentation of the president of the club, Enrique Lacalle – about Silvia Angulo, editor-in-chief of Politics of La Vanguardia, about the management of the dome of the Interior from the time of Jorge Fernández Díaz, in collusion with the patriotic police, to discredit, by means of false accusations, the leaders of the independence process.
“The situation is repeated against the same people and on the same issues”, concluded the popular deputy, for whom there are “more serious” cases that do not appear in the press because they cannot be the “smoke screen”, according to the definition from the spokesperson of the PP in Congress, Miguel Tellado, who needs the Spanish Government to divert attention from the amnesty law.
From Pedro Sánchez’s mobile phone, they stole “three gigabytes of information, the equivalent of the entire Filmin catalog”, González Pons quipped, which is why the PP will take advantage of the creation of an investigation commission on the Pegasus espionage program, agreed by the PSOE and ERC, to find out the magnitude of the theft of this huge amount of data. And if it does not succeed, they will take the case to the Senate, where the popular people have an absolute majority, he warned.
The desire of the deputy secretary of institutional affairs of the PP to divert the focus from the maneuvers of the party under the presidency of Mariano Rajoy to deal with the process made him fire a bullet against one of the key institutions of the Spanish political system, the Court Constitutional, which, in his opinion, under the presidency of Cándido Conde-Pumpido, has become “a cancer for the rule of law”, an “unfortunate” comparison that he later withdrew and for which he apologized.
“The whole legal architecture is based on the fact that there is a court that is above all and that guarantees that laws that go against the Constitution will be removed from the system”, analyzed González Pons, but the Constitutional Court, in its current configuration, with a progressive presidency and majority, it is “politically contaminated” and does not fulfill the role of “negative legislator”, but instead “usurps” the functions of the judiciary and the legislature: “The referee decides the outcome of the match”, he retorted.
In this sense, the Valencian politician said that it would not be strange if the PP decided not to appeal the amnesty law to the High Court, just in case this would serve for a “constitutional mutation” – a change of spirit without altering the letter – of unintended consequences: “If we appeal, we will allow him to change the Constitution. If we don’t appeal, we rob him of the possibility to change the interpretation of the Constitution”, he explained.
However, he later qualified this position and stated that “the PP will not leave any political, social or judicial avenue unexplored to avoid what it understands to be an illegal and unjust measure” and that, therefore, yes will bring the amnesty law to the Constitutional Court when it is approved.
All these precautions, continued González Pons, respond to the “blackmail” to which the Spanish Government is subjected by parliamentary members, who have “vampirized” the president. “Every night they go there and suck a bit of his blood”, described the novelist, who when asked how long the legislature will last, replied that “whatever Sánchez’s health lasts”, since ERC, Junts and EH Bildu will not let it fall as long as they can continue to exploit it: “They will not find any other mathematics better for their interests”, argued the former MEP.
And it is that Carles Puigdemont “won the coupon and will collect it until the last euro”, he joked about the results of the general elections, which left the key to the legislature in the hands of Junts. “Talking is not bad”, he admitted in order to get out of the way of the approach of the PP to Junts, in which he himself played an important role when he suggested that Puigdemont’s is “a party whose tradition and legality are not in doubt”. But he immediately defined the scope of the dialogue: “Negotiate according to which things, yes”, he told the PSOE.
