Pedro Sánchez's explanations for the

Pegasus case

are far from satisfying the Catalan independence movement, whose spokespersons in Congress have expressed their outrage at the lack of answers and the "milonga" that the Prime Minister has told them.

Among them is his parliamentary partner, ERC, who has led the criticism against Sánchez's attitude because he has placed the responsibilities on the CNI or because he has now announced greater control over it when "the maximum control and the person in charge" of the service of espionage is, he stressed, the President of the Government.

Gabriel Rufián has stressed that those spied on with a court order all share the same characteristic: "their ideology".

ERC has urged Sánchez to clarify why he spied on the current president of the Generalitat,

Pere Aragonès

, and if he considers that he is someone as dangerous as a drug trafficker or a jihadist.

The ERC spokesman has also summoned him to clarify the case of the 47 people included in the

Citizen Lab

list and whose alleged espionage has not been motivated by judicial authorization.

In this sense, he has questioned whether Spain has "cleaned the sewers" of the State and has described the attitude of the Defense Minister,

Margarita Robles

, insisting on her defense of the CNI as "toxic patriotism".

The ERC spokesman reminded Sánchez that "power can never be above morality, that a State and a Government cannot have a parallel life, that a country in which there is a law of silence is a mafia and that the only way for Spain to be a full democracy is to be aware that it is not".

The representative of the PDeCAT, Ferrán Bel, one of those spied on with Pegasus and without judicial authorization, has made the president ugly by his attempt to direct blame towards the PP, trying to shake off the responsibilities and dilute them by talking about the corruption of the PP.

Bel has insisted on the creation of a parliamentary investigation commission and has urged Sánchez to commit to a real dialogue table with the Generalitat, which goes beyond "the photo".

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