Madrid (EFE)
After this meeting and those held since yesterday with other national and regional authorities, deputies and journalists, the MEPs will appear before the media to make their impressions known.
This Tuesday they will meet with the Catalan president, Pere Aragonès, in a meeting that will also be attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Generalitat, Meritxell Serret, and the councilor in the Barcelona City Council Ernest Maragall, all of them spied on.
There will also be a meeting with Andrés Jiménez Rodríguez, director of the Security and Justice area of the Ombudsman’s office, as well as a meeting with representatives of the Defense Commission of the Congress of Deputies.
Aragonès, in an interview with EFE from Chile, has expressed hope of receiving “protection” from Europe for this case of spying on more than 60 independentistas, since he did not find “protection in the Spanish judicial system.”
The European delegation will also meet with members of the Pegasus investigation commission in the Catalan Parliament, among others.
However, no minister plans to meet with the members of this mission and the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Pascual Navarro, will be the only government representative to meet with them.
This decision has led the deputy general secretary and ERC spokesperson, Marta Vilalta, to denounce the “boycott, blockade, obstructionism and neglect” by the State towards the European Parliament delegation that is investigating cyber-espionage with Pegasus against the independence movement Catalan.
For her part, the spokesperson for JxCat in the Congress of Deputies, Míriam Nogueras, has censured that the ERC Government “tolerates” or “accepts” that the central Executive “stands up” and no minister meets with this delegation.
ERC, JxCat and the CUP have sent a letter to the president of the Pegasus Investigation Commission in the European Parliament, Jeroen Lenaers, denouncing this situation, while Aragonès has lamented the lack of “transparency” of the Government in the face of this “blatant” case ”.
The parliamentary mission was made up of nine MEPs, including four Spaniards, the former Minister of the Interior Juan Ignacio Zoido (PP), Ibán García del Blanco (PSOE), and, on behalf of ERC, Diana Riba, whose phone was spied on according to the laboratory Canadian CitizenLab.
Jorge Buxadé has finally disengaged from her as a representative of Vox after describing it as “absolute shame” that the European Parliament commission investigating the use of the Pegasus software listens to deputies of the Parliament of Catalonia.
This visit coincides precisely with the motion of censure that Vox has promoted against the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez.