The PNV demands more clarifications and reforms from Sánchez in the face of espionage and warns that a false closure will not help

Errejón regrets that the Government has gone "behind the events" in the espionage controversy

MADRID, 26 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The PNV spokesman in Congress, Aitor Esteban, considers that the case of "the espionage" with the 'Pegasus' system, both for the Government and for the independentists, has "more implications" than what is seen "on the surface" and It requires more clarifications and more reforms because, as it has warned, "a false closure" is not going to help the Government.

In response to Pedro Sánchez's intervention in the plenary session of Congress, the nationalist leader has indicated that "the logical thing" is to think that the President of the Government knew about the espionage on pro-independence politicians that has been recognized by the CNI, and calls his attention to spy on those who have representation and with whom it is necessary to forge agreements. And if he didn't know, he added, he would assume that the CNI is an autonomous cell that chooses political targets, which seems "very serious" to him.

In any case, he maintains that the judge who authorized that operation did not know what they were investigating or the Pegasus program and its consequences, which reaffirms the need to update the CNI law, which he considers "obsolete." The PNV has already presented a bill betting on expanding the information that the CNI provides when requesting judicial authorization and establishing that three judges and not one make the decisions, and in a collegiate manner.

For this reason, Aitor Esteban celebrates the reforms announced by Pedro Sánchez, although, seeing that a reform of the secrets law has been blocked for years and that the Government has been promising its own for two years, he has shown some skepticism "like Santo Tomás" and he prefers to wait to see the government's projects.

As for the espionage of the president and two ministers that has been recognized by the government, the PNV leader does not know why it is said, since "it does not leave a good place" for the image of the Executive, especially after the change of position on Western Sahara, veiled targeting Morocco.

And then there would be the independentistas spied on without judicial authorization and not recognized by the CNI, and there he insisted that it remains to be clarified whether the operations were carried out on undisclosed dates or if there is another body that has these espionage tools, because they do not know create the hypothesis of alien actors.

All this leads him to insist that more clarifications are necessary and for the PNV he joined the request to create an investigation commission, and more legal reforms, although he believes that the PSOE has always stopped them, both in the transition and when he enjoyed of bipartisanship. "Every time he has had to face a reform, his party was condescending and did not use the necessary surgery," he has riveted.

For his part, the spokesman for Más País, Íñigo Errejón, has pointed out that the Government has always been "behind the events" in this crisis and has blamed it on the fact that it was not "very sure" of the actions of "some apparatuses of the State, which believes that they have a tendency to "act with increasing autonomy above democratic control".

This has been attributed to the fact that when the right governs, it does so "without counterweights", while the left "is in the State as if it were a tenant, trying not to bother too much". "This battle must be fought if you want effective pluralism," he warned.

On his side, the BNG deputy, Néstor Rego, has argued that spying on political opponents "is not part of a truly democratic system", neither legally nor illegally, and has alluded to a "dirty war" over the last four decades with "State terrorism, closure of media or protection of corruption in the Head of State".

The Compromís deputy, Joan Baldoví, has also made reference to a gear that leads to authoritarianism, reading a tweet from a journalist who predicted that "the only thing missing is the change of government and we will be Poland."