The Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, has made a fiery defense of "the 3,000 men and women of the CNI, of the Rule of Law and of Justice" before the Congressional Defense Commission.

It has been a way of approaching, although without providing data, the issue that actually focuses the attention of the parliamentary groups: the alleged espionage, through the Pegasus program, on more than 60 people related to the independence movement and, in parallel, the attack , with the same software, to the mobile devices of the President of the Government and the minister herself.

Robles has warned the secessionist forces, paradoxically the parliamentary support of the Executive, that they cannot be accused "without evidence" and has urged them to "go to the courts of Justice" if they have proof that a criminal act has been committed, as as the Executive itself has done by putting espionage on Pedro Sánchez and herself in the hands of the court: "I will not accept, neither as a democratic citizen nor as a jurist or as a minister, that frivolous accusations are made to the CNI that cannot defend itself".

The minister has also made a strong commitment to the director of the intelligence service, Paz Esteban, who is, she said, "stoically enduring accusations that do not correspond to reality."

"It horrifies me and scares me to take someone who cannot defend himself into the public square," she has riveted.

The president of the commission, the popular José Antonio Bermúdez de Castro, has tried to ensure that the debate in the commission was limited to the official matter of the appearance -the Strategic Compass of the EU- and not lead to the espionage scandal and in that sense he has asked the deputies not to address direct questions on this subject to the minister.

His claim has had little success, especially when the government itself established the presence of Robles in the Defense Commission as the first stage of the process to end up learning the truth about espionage.

Mireia Vehí, from the CUP, has opened fire addressing the Pegasus case.

Who spied?

Do they think that without giving explanations they are doing an exercise of responsibility?

Do you think that killing the director of the CNI will save you and the Prime Minister?

Why are his mobile and that of the president only checked after knowing about the espionage of the independentistas?

This has been the cataract of questions from Vehí that have remained unanswered while waiting for the director of the intelligence services, Paz Esteban, to shed some light on the scandal in the Official Secrets Commission tomorrow.

Bildu's deputy, Jon Iñarritu, presumably one of those spied on through the Pegasus program, has emphasized that "the security of the State has been put at risk" and that this has been made public coinciding with the denunciation of massive espionage against the independentists.

Iñárritu has accused the Government of "having a double standard of measurement" and has warned: "You have made yourself a securitarian harakiri."

The PNV spokesman has also branded the espionage case a scandal and has lamented that the government's parliamentary force, the PSOE, in this case with the support of the PP, Cs and Vox, has prevented a commission of investigation from being set up in Congress. public inquiry to clarify this matter.

The representative of Ciudadanos, Edmundo Bal, has broken the tone of reproaches to clothe the minister whom he has encouraged to defend above all the CNI and its director, Paz Esteban, urging her to prevent her head from being handed over to satisfy the independentists.

The PP, for its part, has asked Robles to "clarify the ceremony of confusion" and the "lack of confidence" that the Government itself has planted around State security.

"They have to act with seriousness and loyalty to the institutions of the State; not only you, but the entire Government with the president defending the dignity of the institutions. There can be no exceptions and if there are, they have to stop or be stopped," he said. Carlos Rojas.

"You cannot make a policy of demolition from within the Council of Ministers itself," he stated, tacitly referring to the Minister for Social Rights, Ione Belarra.

"You can't govern Spain with those who don't want it."

And finally, he asked Robles if he had "married"

The JxCAT deputy, Josep Pagès, has stressed the "absolute mistrust" of his party in the Government.

"You don't offer us any credibility", he assured before adding: "What an image you are transferring before the NATO Summit".

Robles has reminded him that, when faced with problems, some have the courage and bravery to appear and explain and others, in an obvious reference to Carles Puigdemont, prefer to flee.

After him, the ERC representative, Montserrat Bassa, has demanded "political and judicial responsibilities" and the constitution of an investigation commission.

Bassa has accused Robles of trying to "cover up the shame" and the "plague of the sewers of the State" with the label of "state secret" and has insisted that, in a full democracy, the minister should resign or be dismissed.

The ERC deputy has openly accused the Government of spying and repressing the independence movement for wanting to put up ballot boxes: "We will do it again", she has sentenced.

The spokesman for United We Can, Pablo Echenique, has not hesitated to label the two cases of espionage as a "very serious scandal", the one that allegedly affects the independentistas and the one that affects members of the Government.

Echenique has been in charge of giving voice in Congress to the arguments that the former second vice president, Pablo Iglesias, has launched on social networks.

"It is inevitable", he has said, "that political responsibilities be assumed at the highest level".

The minister has asked the purple representative for "responsibility" before reminding him that his party is part of the Government which is, he has pointed out, "a collegiate body" in which its 22 members, five of them from UP, have access to " information, analysis and studies of the CNI".

And in this sense, she has assumed that "they have no doubts" about them since they have not raised objections or requested information.

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