Madrid, May 4 (EFE) .- The Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, appears this Wednesday in the Defense Commission of Congress in the midst of the storm unleashed by espionage with the Pegasus tool that she herself has suffered on her mobile devices, as well as the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, and sixty Catalan politicians.
In principle, Robles had requested to appear in the Lower House to report on the approval of the Strategic Compass of the European Union and its effects on the projection of the Armed Forces in international missions.
But the denunciation of the Catalan nationalists that 60 politicians from that community had been spied on with the Pegasus and the Government’s announcement that she and Sánchez had also been, will leave the reason for their initial appearance in a more than background.
The Minister of Defense will foreseeably have to respond to criticism from the Catalan nationalists, who have asked for her resignation and who were not satisfied with her explanations in Congress and the Senate.
Moreover, his intervention in the control session of the Lower House last week stirred up some groups, including Podemos, a government partner.
“What does a state, a government, have to do when someone violates the Constitution, when someone declares independence (…), when they carry out public disorder, when someone is having relations with political leaders of a country that is invading Ukraine?” Robles asked himself in response to CUP deputy Mireia Vehí.
This Monday the Government summoned the media to report that Sánchez and Robles had also been spied on.
In fact, the State Attorney has denounced that in the two intrusions in Sánchez’s mobile, in the month of May of last year, 2.6 gigabytes and 130 megabytes of data were extracted, while there were 9 megabytes of information in the case of Robles, in a single attack in June 2021, according to government sources.
However, the exact content of this data is currently unknown.
All this has sparked criticism of the intelligence services, although this Tuesday the government spokeswoman, Isabel Rodríguez, made it clear that Sánchez supports the Minister of Defense and the director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI), Paz Esteban.
(c) EFE Agency
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