Gamarra accuses Sánchez of turning Congress into a "mud" against the PP and not giving explanations about espionage

Request a meeting of the Official Secrets Commission when Sánchez did not give information to the Plenary or to Feijóo through a "more discreet channel

MADRID, 27 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, has accused Pedro Sánchez this Friday of turning the plenary session of Congress on the so-called Pegasus case into a "mud", "attacking and insulting" the PP, without giving explanations about espionage. After describing the announcements he made to reform the Official Secrets Law and the Control Law of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) as a "smokescreen", he criticized the Prime Minister for seeking to "point to the CNI to satisfy his partners of government".

"I think that dedicating yourself to turning the parliamentary sphere into a quagmire by attacking and insulting the party with which you say you want to sit down to seek agreements, the less is not the better and more favorable context so that it can be deduced that there is a real will of the president wants to agree something with us", Gamarra declared in an interview on RNE, which Europa Press has picked up.

In this sense, he has criticized the fact that the Government announces that it wants to agree on reforms with the PP while in the parliamentary debate, "instead of giving explanations, he becomes a new leader of the opposition against the opposition itself". "It seems that he is already anticipating what his closest future in politics is going to be," he emphasized.

Gamarra has blamed the head of the Executive for not having defended the Spanish Intelligence Services and has blamed it on the "pressure" of the independentistas, putting as proof of this that he "handed over the head" of the then director of the CNI, Paz Esteban, a couple of weeks ago. In his opinion, this shows that to "guarantee a few more months in Moncloa, he does not mind eroding the State."

"In this game of eroding the State, the PP will not be. If the will is to strengthen the State, the PP will be, but we also say loud and clear that these two announcements (of legislative reform) respond to the smokescreen that President Sánchez always exhibits so as not to give explanations when he has to give them", he has proclaimed.

In this sense, he has criticized the Chief Executive for not offering explanations or answering the questions that were put to him about Pegasus. For this reason, he has indicated that the PP has requested the appearance of the new director of the CNI in the Official Secrets Commission.

The leader of the PP has criticized Sánchez for denying knowledge of the espionage to the independence leaders when everyone knows that he did know, given that the Prime Minister is aware of the objectives of the CNI.

"A party like the PP, which has governed and has been in Moncloa, we know that the President of the Government is informed of the actions and lines on which the CNI is working," he added. In his opinion, Sánchez sought to "point to the CNI to satisfy his government partners." "In that game we are not going to collaborate"

Gamarra has also criticized that Sánchez did not offer details about the theft of information from his mobile and if the information stolen could "compromise" the security of Spain and his own ability to make decisions.

In addition, he has said that Sánchez could have used a "more discreet channel", calling Moncloa the head of the opposition and giving him the appropriate explanations, as in his opinion, he would have made a "good ruler", instead of offering an "unprecedented "Press conference on May 2 making public the theft of information from the Chief Executive's cell phone.

When asked if she suspects that Morocco is behind that robbery, she indicated that when information is not available, "hypotheses and speculations" begin, and she recalled that this robbery occurred in May and June 2021, when a political and diplomatic crisis with Morocco.

And then, he continued, there has been a "turn that nobody understands" in the position on the Sahara. "There is data that leads us to many doubts and that is the Government that has to dispel it with information and respond in a mature and responsible manner," he said.

When asked if the new director of the CNI has the confidence of the PP, Gamarra recalled that she had indicated that Esperanza Casteleiro had held a political position having been in the Government of Pedro Sánchez. Although she has recognized that she is a person "of the house" and "they do not question her", she has stressed that "it is not the best way to choose the people who have to be in charge of certain organizations".

Before the audios of the commissioner José Manuel Villarejo with the former general secretary of the PP María Dolores de Cospedal that is published in El País, Gamarra has declined to comment and has highlighted that they correspond to "more than a decade ago". As he added, his game is focused on the present and the future.

"That happened more than a decade ago and I think we have to be looking to the future," he stressed, asking the government "not to create so much smokescreen and focus on how Spaniards can fill the tank with gasoline this Weekend".

When asked if she can guarantee that these audios will not happen again in the PP, she has indicated that the PP "has taken lessons and assumed responsibilities a long time ago." "And the Spanish know perfectly well that we are not at that stage," she concluded.