Pedro Sánchez fails in his plan to appease his partners and governability is further complicated

• 'Caso Pegasus' Crisis in the Government: Robles defends the director of the CNI and points to Bolaños as responsible for the espionage

The Government set the appearance of the director of the CNI in Congress as a turning point in the crisis with its nationalist governance partners for espionage through the Pegasus system.

The Executive was confident that when it became known that there were twenty, and no more than 60 as stated in the Citizen report, the people spied on, all under judicial authorization, and that the President of the Government had also been spied on in an "attack external", pressure and blackmail would cease.

Paz Esteban showed papers, explanations, but the government's plan failed.

The nationalists left the commission without seeing their aspirations fulfilled.

"Insufficient explanations";

“much to clarify yet”;

“a commission of inquiry is necessary”;

"Responsibilities must be cleared up"... were the sensations of the PSOE's governance partners, including United We Can.

They dispatched what was the government's bet with intemperate boxes, insisting, in addition, on an investigation commission.

The Government defends that it has acted "with total transparency";

"explanations have been given";

there is "nothing to hide" and that the director of the

provided documentation and answered the questions put to her.

Two disparate views on the same fact, but which lead to one conclusion: the government's plan to appease its partners with these explanations failed and that governability remains in question.

Especially when one of the people investigated is Pere Aragonès, current president of the Generalitat.

A circumstance that would give ERC more strength in its demands and that would complicate, in the event that the Government does not heed them, the structural support of this formation to the Government in

.

And his 13 votes, added to Bildu's five, are decisive in governance, in which the Executive can carry out its measures in Congress.

The clear warning that if these two formations stop supporting the Government, governability and the legislature could fall, was clearly experienced with the chaotic approval of the labor reform -thanks to a mistake by a PP deputy- or with the effort that it meant for the Executive to approve the decree of economic measures to alleviate the crisis aggravated by the war in Ukraine, after the no of

.

In La Moncloa they distance themselves from this espionage of the secret services of the State to

.

"We neither knew nor could know if this was the case," government sources explained to this newspaper.

Regarding the uncertain scenario that remains, both in parliamentary governance and on the dialogue table with the Generalitat, from

they maintain their commitment to keep the dialogue alive, which, they consider, should not be altered: «Our will last is that the dialogue is not interrupted.

The dialogue does not end, as it had not ended.

Moreover, from ERC and the Generalitat they are also betting on him, ”say government sources.

Dialogue is precisely what the Government needed, but internally, to try to defuse the clash and tensions experienced in recent days between the Presidency of the Government and Defense over who is responsible for the security of the President of the Government's cell phone.

That dialogue was staged on Wednesday with a conversation between Félix Bolaños, Minister of the

, and the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, while

, spokesman for the PSOE in Congress, did the same with Pablo Echenique, spokesman for United We Can.

Conversations aimed at trying to establish a common strategy: unity and showing joint work.

It is the order and the message that was transferred this Wednesday, after concern spread in La Moncloa about the image of division.

"The entire government as a whole is working," said Bolaños, who wanted to explain his "affection, solidarity and support" for Robles."There is total and absolute coordination.

It is a Government that is proud to work together”, completed the Defense Minister.

Robles' firmness in defending the CNI and its director forced La Moncloa to lower the tension, modulate its message and ease the discharge of responsibilities from the secret services.

For the first time, Bolaños had to admit that the Presidency also has responsibilities in the security of Sánchez's mobile: "The responsibility lies with the Government as a whole," he admitted.

A scale to measure this clash and see if there are winners and losers is to see whether or not the director of the CNI is still in office.

Because in the face of the claims of a part of the Government to dismiss Esteban, Robles maintains his defense intact and the commitment to his continuity, understanding that he has fulfilled his work.

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