UP supports Sánchez but asks for more courage, progress in Catalonia and leave a "legacy": "You have to join and listen"

Ask to "clean the sewers" after Pegasus, reproaches Feijóo for not being moderate and accuses Vox of "humiliating" disability

MADRID, 26 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

United We Can has supported the position of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to increase controls in the National Intelligence Center (CNI) and to reform the Official Secrets Law, but has demanded "more courage" in the legislative agenda, clean "the sewers" and make progress at the dialogue table in Catalonia to leave a "legacy", for which it is necessary to "listen and add".

He has also charged harshly against the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, asserting that his "moderate mask" has fallen off, reproaching him for seeking a "mafia silence" by espionage on pro-independence leaders, while he has accused Vox of "humiliate" people with disabilities after the statements of the vice president of Castilla y León, Juan García-Gallardo.

This has been transferred by the president of the confederal parliamentary group, Jaume Asens, during his speech in the framework of Sánchez's appearance specifically for the 'Pegasus' case, where he has also described as positive the dismissal of the former head of the CNI Paz Esteban.

The leader of En Comú Podem has revealed that Sánchez has been brave in announcing new measures after the Pegasus scandal, as he was also in approving pardons for those convicted of the 'procés', but he has also demanded that more is needed to guarantee the imprint of the progressive Executive during the legislature.

In this sense, he has outlined that the previous mandate of the PP will be remembered for the "punches and jail" in the Catalan conflict, while this is based on dialogue, although clarifying that this principle is not an end in itself but a means of achieving goals. Therefore, he has proclaimed that progress is required at the dialogue table between the Government and the Generalitat.

And at this point he has warned him that the second installment of the legislature remains and has asked him "what legacy" Sánchez intends to leave to be remembered for "something bigger" than the territorial challenge, pointing to the laws of deepening democracy that his group aspires to reintroduce (the decriminalization of criminalized crimes of opinion, the repeal of the gag law or the democratic memory law).

"It is not enough to win by the minimum and leave the public in doubt. You have to play well, listen and add. We know what legacy we want, and you?", Sánchez was transferred with a speech that evoked the approach of the vice president second, Yolanda Díaz, in view of the new political process that she is promoting.

Regarding Pegasus, Asens has denounced that at least 18 people have been spied on with judicial authorization, including the Catalan president Pere Aragonés, with no known links to any illegal activity.

That, added to the intervention of communications that reaches at least 60 people, does erode the image of Spain and espionage with "delirious arguments" against independentistas and lawyers, since it is something that violates fundamental rights, as it happens in Hungary or Poland.

"In a democracy, one dialogues with the adversaries, one does not spy on them", Asens has launched to warn that Pegasus has serious implications in terms of the separation of powers, given that communications from positions of the legislative power have been intervened and denotes that there is a " problem with the deep state.

However, Asens has criticized the attitude of the right to the Pegasus case. And it is that in his opinion they put in the first place their "little Spain" vision above democracy and the laws. "For the right, the problem is not that there is a plot of political espionage, but that it comes to light (...) they want to impose a mafia silence and Feijóo knows a little about that," the leader of United We Can snapped.

His criticism of the PP, which has changed its leader but is the "same party of the sewers and espionage", has not stopped there, blaming the party for killing its former president Pablo Casado when he denounced alleged corruption. "They wanted to overtake Vox and they went off the track," Asens deepened.

He has also addressed harsh words to the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, who "has not dropped his mask" and accused him that, if it were up to him, half of the chamber would be spied on or outlawed. Moreover, he has wondered what can be expected from a formation in which García-Gallardo is a member and that "humiliates", in his opinion, people with disabilities.

"Do you think they are more normal than Pablo Echenique?", He has launched the Vox bench to make them ugly that they already know what they think of immigrants and LGTBi people.

Finally, he has questioned the PP that if he has the possibility of governing with Vox, they still give him a "Ministry of normality" in which "weapons are distributed, which is what they propose, and in the end it can end here as in Texas ", Asens has continued in reference to the recent shooting in the United States.

That reference has motivated the Vox spokesman, Iván Espionosa de los Monteros, to have asked to intervene due to allusions.