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A parliamentary question from ERC deputy Gabriel Rufián has opened another source of dissent and possible tensions in the Government. Why? Because the PSOE refuses to take to the Congress of Deputies the espionage of the former president of Parliament Roger Torrent, of whom Esquerra blames the Spanish State. And, on the contrary, United We Can is in favor of the initiative. This is accredited by the minutes of the Board of Spokespersons of the Lower House to which EL MUNDO has acceded.
Torrent's
mobile
(like that of former minister
Ernest Maragall
) was the target of a spy program in 2019 that, under the name Pegasus, was developed by the Israeli company NSO and is only sold to governments and security forces. to fight crime and terrorism. The program allows listening to conversations, reading messages, accessing the hard disk, taking screenshots, reviewing the browsing history and activating the device's camera and microphone by remote control.
This news was known on July 14 thanks to an investigation by
The Guardian
and
El País
. That day,
Torrent
assured in an institutional statement that "the Spanish State practices espionage against political adversaries", and
Rufián
registered a question in Congress, with a written answer, "about the knowledge that the Government has of the existence of the investigations and extrajudicial intrusions for which the
Citizen Lab group of the Munk School of Toronto
(Canada) would have knowledge that more than 130 personalities from all over the world have been victims of allegedly illegal espionage through software developed by the NSO company » .
The Board of Congress rejected the request and
Rufián
presented in February 2021 a document of reconsideration before the Board of Spokespersons, which addressed the issue on May 18 and rejected it with the votes of PSOE, PP, Vox and Cs, according to the minutes. of the meeting. The spokesperson for United We Can in the Lower House, Pablo Echenique, positioned himself in favor of Rufián in the face of the refusal of Rafael Simancas (PSOE).
As Unidos Podemos has aligned itself with Esquerra, in the end it has been Vox, Ciudadanos and PP who have saved the PSOE from the drink. The Executive already denied his involvement or knowledge of the hack. The Government spokesperson, María Jesús Montero, stated categorically that "the Government has no evidence that the President of the Parliament has been the victim of a hacking or theft of his mobile phone." "You have to act and operate as every time there is a suspicion of hacking, as all citizens do, filing the corresponding complaint to be investigated," he added.
The CNI - which has the
Pegasus
program
- also denied any involvement, ensuring that it complies with the laws and acts under the supervision of a
Supreme Court
magistrate
. According to the investigation,
Torrent's
phone
was attacked with Pegasus between April and May 2019 through a WhatsApp security flaw, which opened the door to installing the spyware on Torrent's phone and 1,400 more mobiles on it. world.
The parliamentary clash between the two government partners is not an isolated episode.
Last week,
United We
can once again aligned itself with separatism and in front of the PSOE in Congress to demand that the "amnesty" be spoken of to the procés prisoners at the negotiating table between the Government and the Generalitat.
The purple ones voted last Thursday in favor of a CUP motion that proposed it, while the Socialists were against it.
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