Aragonès delays the presentation of his complaint against the Government for the 'Pegasus case'

The political relations between the Government and the Generalitat are still in the freezer but, on the first day of the meteorological summer, both parties will meet in Madrid to try to get the dialogue back on track.

The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, and the Minister of the Presidency, Laura Vilagrà, will meet this Wednesday afternoon with a single point on the table: to shed light on the

of espionage against 65 independentists, which continues to weigh down the rapprochement of the parties.

But that to the fiery rhetoric about the surveillance, which the independence movement attributes to the National Intelligence Center, CNI, (it recognizes 17 surveillance of independence supporters, with judicial authorization in 2019), the

Pere Aragonès still does not present the complaint that he announced at the time for the facts.

The spokeswoman for the Catalan Executive, Patrícia Plaja, confirmed on Tuesday that the complaint has not been filed and that the legal services of the Generalitat continue to work on the text.

Aragonès is on the list of pro-independence supporters under legal protection by Spanish intelligence and in his entourage they assure that the document will be presented "imminently" before a court and deny that it is being used as a pressure tool against the government.

Others affected (such as Roger Torrent in his day or this year the Republicans Josep Maria Jové and Diana Riba) and institutions, such as the Parliament, have resorted to legal action.

Aragonès himself announced the lawsuit in several interventions in the media, after the Pegasus scandal exploded.

"We are going to go to the end, to use all the legal defense means at our disposal, because basic rights have been violated," the

said in an interview with

on May 1.

Since then, however, the legal action has borne fruit.

Asked on several occasions about the stage of the complaint, Plaja assured in May that it would be presented "in the coming weeks" and that the legal services of the Generalitat were working to "collect the maximum burden of proof and have all the legal fringes so worked as necessary”, given the lack of information on follow-ups.

On the 9th of this month, in an interview with

, the Catalan leader had once again insisted on the complaint, which would initially be directed at the company NSO Group, manufacturer of the Pegasus software, with which his mobile phone was infected in 2019 "In my case, it clearly indicates that the CNI has acted fraudulently, but this will have to be certified very well because we already know that there is a double yardstick here," he had added when asked if he would also point to the government.

In the environment of the

they rule out that it is being used with the complaint as an element of pressure towards the Executive but it does not stop calling attention that it does not go ahead despite the fact that day after day the speech of the Catalan Government attacks what it considers the lack of solid answers about tracking secessionists.

Plaja, in fact, made it very clear that the only point of this Wednesday's meeting is to see how far progress has been made in the explanations requested by the Government and what are the guarantees that espionage will not be repeated.

“There is only one item on the agenda, addressing the existing blockade between the two governments as a result of the Pegasus case, and the result of an accumulation of facts and disloyalty against the Catalans, which have completely damaged relations and trust. with the Government”, said Plaja, who has ruled out that the meeting implies the “normalization of relations” between both Executives.

Bolaños and Vilagrà already met in the spring, once the espionage scandal exploded.

The minister then promised an internal control investigation at the National Intelligence Center;

another independent one opened ex officio by the Ombudsman;

another in the Commission of Official Secrets of the Congress, where the director of the CNI would appear (who ended up being dismissed after the espionage of President Pedro Sánchez became known), and the promise that the Executive is willing to declassify secret documents to clarify the situation.

The Generalitat is not satisfied with the results of these measures.

The meeting has also opened a new front within the ERC and Junts coalition.

Vice

Jordi Puigneró has complained that he was only informed of the meeting in Madrid just before the Consell Executiu.

From their environment they remember that political relations (not technical ones) remain frozen until all doubts about the

are cleared up .

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