MADRID, 26 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The deputy of Navarra Suma Sergio Sayas has called this Thursday for the resignation of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, who has also received criticism from Foro Asturias and the Canary Coalition for his management of espionage with the Pegasus program and accusations of weakening the National Intelligence Center (CNI) with the dismissal of Paz Esteban as director to “appease” his pro-independence partners.
“Spain does not need to change the National Security Law, it needs its president to resign,” Sayas proclaimed during his turn to reply at the appearance of the head of the Executive for the espionage cases.
The Navarrese parliamentarian has accused the Government of living “kneeled and subjected” to “the court of independentists” who sit in Congress and has branded the issue of espionage a “Dantesque scandal”. “He should resign if he did not know anything because he was incompetent and, if he knew, because he was a liar and negligent,” he warned, accusing Sánchez of having first reserved information about an intrusion on his mobile phone and telling it later, “even at the risk of exposing the security national”, with the aim of “relaxing” the independentistas.
In any case, in his opinion, the independentistas will trip up the government or they will get angry “for a while”, but “they will not let him fall” because they need Sánchez in La Moncloa. “You are the best thing that has happened to the independentistas in 40 years and the worst thing that has happened to Spain,” he accused, predicting that “sanchism is coming to an end.” “It’s just a lame duck now,” he has sentenced.
The deputy of Foro Asturias, Isidro Martínez Oblanca, has also warned that the members of the Executive are “insatiable” and has censured that the Council of Ministers “contributed” to “weakening” the CNI by “sacrificing” its director and converting the Spanish intelligence services in “the talk of half the world”.
In addition, he has criticized Sánchez for keeping “Trojan” ministers in his Executive, in reference to the members of United We Can, and has placed him in a “suicidal drift” in order to stay in power, “playing with the institutions in pursuit of self-interest.”
Very critical has also been the deputy of the Canarian Coalition, Ana Oramas, who believes that the Government only revealed the ‘hacking’ to the phones of members of the Council of Ministers to have an “excuse” for the dismissal of Paz Esteban as director of the CNI. “I needed an excuse to hand over the head of a good State official to the Catalan partners,” she criticized.
Oramas has saved the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, from her criticism –“what a good minister if she had a good man”–, and has warned Sánchez that power does not deserve to pay the price of the “sacrifice of honest and worthy people “.
For Pedro Quevedo, from Nueva Canarias, all this debate generates “concern” because “you cannot rest easy” and it is necessary for the Government to assume that it must intervene and impose the rule of law to avoid invasions and illegitimate intrusion.”
In his opinion, there is “unacceptable espionage” used as a “tool of power to persecute those who disagree”, and then there is “the espionage of supposed friends”, in a veiled allusion to Morocco. “The one who has dared to intervene his phone, maybe it is someone who claims to be a very good friend, Well, we still have a problem with that friendship,” he commented.