The Spanish parliament is going to question Prime Minister Sánchez about spy software on his phone and on that of two other cabinet members. The scandal may lead to the resignation of the head of the Spanish secret service CNI.
All parties – with the exception of Sanchez’s own social-democratic party PSOE – supported a motion today calling on the prime minister to explain to the House. It is not yet clear when Sánchez will be heard by parliament. Another petition, in which parties call for an extensive parliamentary inquiry into the Pegasus scandal, failed to win a majority.
However, the head of the Spanish secret service Paz Esteban will be heard by a separate parliamentary committee on Thursday. The parties especially want to know how it is possible that hackers penetrated Prime Minister Sánchez’s phone twice in May last year and stole almost 3 gigabytes of data. The telephone of the Minister of Defense also managed to get in, during which data was also stolen.
smoke screen
In addition, the parliamentarians want to know when exactly the CNI discovered that the telephones had been broken into. Until Thursday, the government does not want to make a decision about the possible departure of the director of the secret service.
The news about the data breach came yesterday the government said after the CNI’s report on the hack came in over the weekend. But Catalan parties in the Chamber doubt that reading and find the data theft “too coincidental” and call the issue “a smoke screen”.
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