• Pegasus Pere Aragonès assures that he was spied on after 2019 and demands explanations from Pedro Sánchez

  • Espionage The Government of Sánchez spied on Aragonès for being a "threat" to the State

Coldness without breaking gestures.

The reunion in Barcelona of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the President of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, in the midst of a confrontation over the espionage crisis against the pro-independence leaders, has shown without filters the distance that currently separates the two Executives.

Although they avoided giving signs of breaking the agreement that sustains the

Social Podemite

government in Congress .

Sánchez and Aragonès greeted each other briefly at the gates of the Hotel Vela, where the traditional days of the Círculo de Economía are held, awaiting the arrival of the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.

The

president has

transferred to the head of the Government "the seriousness of the situation caused by espionage" and has demanded an urgent meeting to clarify it.

The German leader has involuntarily acted as a wild card between the two presidents, whose faces showed the discomfort of the moment, and has allowed them to mark distances between the two.

Aragonès has acted as host and has focused all his attention on the European president, while Sánchez spoke with the president of the Círculo de Economía, Javier Faus.

If last June Sánchez's intervention at the closing of the Circle of Economy conference was marked by pardons for the independence leaders, granted a few days later, and the reactivation of the channels of dialogue with the Generalitat, barely a year later the circumstances in the same scenario are diametrically opposite.

The case of espionage on secessionist politicians is the new headache for the President of the Government, from whom his Catalan counterpart demands immediate transparency and assumption of responsibilities, under the threat of breaking ties and putting the remainder of the legislature at a crossroads.

The explanations of the director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI), Paz Esteban, in the commission of official secrets of the Congress, where yesterday he acknowledged the wiretapping of 18 pro-independence leaders, including the president of the Generalitat, have further stirred up the parties secessionists, who continue to demand to know who ordered the Pegasus program to spy on the list of more than 60 people from the Catalan nationalist circle mentioned in the report published more than two weeks ago by The New Yorker magazine.

The Government, in addition, maintains that the intrusion into the president's mobile would have gone beyond the accredited period, during the fall of 2019, coinciding with the violent protests after the Supreme Court ruling, and would have lasted at least until January of the following year, when Esquerra Republicana facilitated Sánchez's investiture with his abstention.

Aragonès asks for "the immediate declassification of the judicial authorization" for this espionage to "know his motivations and be able to exercise the right of defense."

Abroad, several of the individuals affected by the espionage of the so-called

Catalangate

, such as Jordi Sànchez (Junts), Meritxell Serret (ERC) or Carles Riera (CUP), have concentrated taking advantage of Sánchez's visit to Barcelona.

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