• Politics Bolaños will meet tomorrow with the Generalitat in full controversy over espionage against independentistas

While the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, made a parenthesis in the celebration of Sant Jordi to make the Government ugly about the "most serious case of espionage that has been known in democracy" and once again reiterate explanations to Pedro Sánchez, from the Spanish Executive a meeting with the Government was announced to calm things down.

An appointment that has once again caused the umpteenth dispute between ERC, a supporter of dialogue despite the threats, and JxCat more aware of the confrontation since only in that scenario is it capable of obtaining political revenue.

Thus, the so-called 'catalangate', by which 65 independence leaders were infected with a computer program called Pegasus, is still the umpteenth sovereignist attempt to demand more attention from the Government despite the fact that the protagonists of the 'procés' themselves

The double face of the Government was staged by the president.

Aragonès considered "inadmissible" that the Government "still has no clear explanations" for the contagion of these terminals with the Pegasus system, despite the fact that Pedro Sánchez's Executive has denied it, and added that it is an "interference that needs explanations" .

"It doesn't make any sense that the Prime Minister hasn't offered an explanation. And the Defense Minister's explanations are insufficient and counterproductive, because saying that the CNI cannot defend itself... those who cannot defend themselves are the Sixty people who have seen our privacy spied on and exposed to third parties who want to condition the political life of this country," he added.

For this reason, the Catalan president lamented the declarations of the defense minister, Margarita Robles, as being "insufficient and counterproductive" and called on the government for "all transparency and that responsibilities be assumed".

"Explanations and transparency are needed and that the people affected know what has happened, who has ordered espionage, who has been spied on, what has been done with this data and with whose authorization," said Aragonès.

However, the Government's response was to send the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, to meet with the Minister of the Presidency, Laura Vilagrà, this Sunday in Barcelona, ​​which generated suspicion from the ERC partner in the Government, JxCat, who has felt left out.

The intention of the Sánchez Executive is that there be no setbacks in the dialogue, just like the Republicans, although JxCat survives better politically in the confrontation.

In this sense, from JxCat it is considered that this meeting is a "minor appointment" waiting for Aragonès to make effective its threats to freeze relations with the Government while waiting for it to "purify responsibilities".

"For Junts en el Govern, the only announcement we expect from the Spanish government is the opening of an investigation into espionage," highlighted the pro-independence formation, distancing itself from its partners in the ERC.

And it is that independence only has forms left.

That is why they cling to the agreement "between the two Govern partners last Tuesday" to keep "relations frozen and, therefore, bilateral political meetings."

preserve the dialogue

Numerous political reactions were added to the pro-independence controversy over 'Catalangate', taking advantage of the Sant Jordi festival in Barcelona.

The second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, said that the Government "is working" to preserve the "dialogue" with the Generalitat, while the Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta, warned that "there is no alternative to dialogue".

Despite this, the president of the Parlament, Laura Borràs, urged the Government to go "beyond explanations" and that there be "resignations", while former president Carles Puigdemont also pressured the ERC demanding that it put an end to the "comedy " of the dialogue so that they do not "trick him".

However, the leader of the ERC, Oriol Junqueras, asked Sánchez to assume responsibility and the CUP deputy Carles Riera accused the Spanish president of complicity in this espionage.

The leader of En Comú Podem in Parliament, Jéssica Albiach, responded to Borràs by assuring that he must be "prudent" to ask for resignations, since "the only person who is charged, and for alleged corruption, is Laura Borràs".

And the first secretary of the PSC, Salvador Illa, affirmed that "he believes" the explanations of the Government.

The president of the Catalan PP, Alejandro Fernández, also asked for "prudence" in this case, "until justice rules" while the president of the Andalusian Parliament, Marta Bosquet (Cs), defended in Barcelona the political espionage of independence leaders, because before "the existence of fugitives who are persecuted", the intelligence services of Spain and the State "logically have to do their job".

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