Robles says that the security of Government mobile phones is "transversal" and there are many agencies in charge

He acknowledges differences with Podemos, but claims to have an "ethics line" to know if "red lines" are crossed

MADRID, 30 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, clarified this Monday that the security of the mobile phones of members of the Government is "transversal" and that there are "many" agencies within the Administration in charge of them.

Asked about the decrees that establish that security depends on the General Secretary of the Presidency, occupied at the time by Felix Bolaños, the minister pointed out in an interview in Cope collected by Europa Press, that "without a doubt there are those decrees", but that there is also a "strategy and a national security scheme".

"Security cannot be compartmentalized, it is a very broad thing", the minister pointed out, when asked about who has the responsibility of monitoring the security of the telephones of the Presidency, the Government and the president

Robles explained that security "does not refer only to specific issues" but that it is "a very broad subject" and that, therefore, "there are many agencies within the administration that are in charge of security".

In this sense, Robles has slipped that the security of communications does not only depend on the decrees of the Presidency that "regulate an annexation within each department", but that "together with that there is the national security scheme and the strategy". "Security is something very complicated, difficult and very transversal", he added.

Thus, the Minister of Defense has pointed out that in the field of national security we must go forward every day and discover new vulnerabilities because "there are not only in Spain, but in the entire international community".

Asked if she feels comfortable in the government, Robles acknowledged that "it is public and notorious" that she has had and continues to have "disagreements" with her coalition partners. Thus, she has extrapolated these differences to issues related to NATO or to the figure of Felipe VI, whom she defends "because he is an absolutely exemplary king", she has emphasized.

"I have a line of my ethics and conscience in which I know when some red lines are crossed and when not", the minister, who has been shown to be "happy" to belong to the Government, assured immediately. "I think we have to keep working, a lot to do, difficult times. The most important thing is that we convey respect, tolerance, not disqualification to citizens," she concluded on this matter.