• Intelligence: Pedro Sánchez places Pablo Iglesias on the commission that controls the CNI
  • Interior. Discomfort in State Security for the access of Pablo Iglesias to the CNI

The first vice president of the Government, Carmen Calvo, has defended as something "quite logical" the inclusion of Pablo Iglesias as a permanent member in the commission that controls the National Intelligence Center (CNI) , despite the discomfort generated in State Security. However, Vox has bitterly reproached him for this decision and warned of the "danger" of having given an "arsonist" an "arsenal of gasoline and matches."

The access of Iglesias to the CNI meetings, advanced last Saturday exclusively by EL MUNDO, has jumped into the control session to the Government in Congress - with him absent from the sickness chamber - by a question from the Santiago Abascal party, and with it the suspicions and misgivings about their suitability to access the secrets and operations of the intelligence services have surfaced.

Calvo has not wanted to give it more importance and has covered it with total normality. Thus, he has justifiably justified that the inclusion of the leader of United Podemos is because he is a second vice president within a coalition government and, therefore, "it is quite logical that he is also present in this commission of the Government."

But for Vox, giving access to the "ultra-left" to this delicate forum for the State is alarming because "it advances along the paths that its friends have already traveled in the Bolivarian Republics: controlling education, the media and intelligence services" . "This is a danger for our nation," said deputy Julio Utrilla, who has asked the first vice president, "because the ultra-left of this country wants to bring to Spain what was lived" in Venezuela.

The parliamentarian of Vox has wondered "why such a social minister has such an eagerness" to fill that position and recalled that "the dream he never hid" since Iglesias stepped on Congress had always been to be the "controller of the CNI."

Utrilla has directed his criticism against the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, for his "irresponsibility", his "lack of scruples" and his "idolatry" by giving Iglesias access to the "most critical and sensitive issues of the State" and stressed which is a "folly" that does not let his party sleep knowing that an "arsenal of gasoline and matches" has been delivered to a "pyromaniac" like him.

Calvo has replied to Vox to question the legitimacy and legality of the Government and has ironic about his rejection of this decision because he believes that they will be throughout the legislature against everything they do.

"Maybe what you don't like are the polls and their results or what has happened for 42 years in this country. Maybe you like more what happened 40 years before democracy. Maybe it's the problem you have, "Calvo concluded his speech, blaming Vox for preferring Franco.

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