Congress will once again investigate the PP's political police

Congress will once again investigate the actions of the so-called

of the PP during the Government of Mariano Rajoy, following the new revelations about Operation

with which the Interior leadership supposedly intended to discredit the independence movement, as it already did with other political adversaries such as Podemos.

The six votes of the PSOE and Unidas Podemos at the Parliament Table have prevailed over the three votes against PP and Vox to set up the investigation commission, which had been approved since June 28.

"In view of the seriousness of the information known [about the] political and illegal use of State apparatuses and resources to cover up our own corruption, we cannot stand still and that is why we are going to activate this commission," he explained on Tuesday. the socialist spokesman in Congress, Patxi López.

The Socialists have modified the initial proposal for a commission of inquiry into Operation Catalonia with an amendment to extend the parliamentary investigations to all the action of the Ministry of the Interior, in any part of the territory, during the stage of former minister Jorge Fernández Díaz.

According to socialist sources, it is about including "all sensitive information", including the monitoring of journalists that has come to light in recent weeks.

Hundreds of messages from heads of the Interior and police commanders between 2015 and 2019 reveal the ministry's strategy at the time of the PP to investigate Podemos and pro-independence leaders, most of the time without judicial support.

EL PAÍS announced on February 28 the first information about the new WhatsApp messages

from the telephone number of Francisco Martínez, former Secretary of State for Security and

of the Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernández Díaz, at that time and who had just joined the legal case.

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor asks for the two highest officials of the Interior with Rajoy and for Eugenio Pino, the highest police chief, up to 15 years in prison and 31 years of disqualification for the crimes of concealment, embezzlement and against privacy in the Kitchen case,

the that the parapolice operation concocted in the Ministry of the Interior during the Government of Mariano Rajoy is being investigated to spy on the popular ex-treasurer Luis Bárcenas and hide evidence of the illegal financing of the party.

Cadena SER also published the exchange of messages between Martínez and the president of the National Court, José Ramón Navarro, in which the

of the Interior tried to get him to provide him with information on a case that was secret, asking him about his personal judicial future , and the president responds with phrases such as "I'll tell you as soon as I know", "I find out and I'll tell you", or asks him to "calm down".

The president of the National Court has denied to the radio station having ever given any information to Francisco Martínez and that he limited himself to "delaying" him.

Despite the seriousness and political controversy generated by these

According to reports, Congress did not show any interest in setting up the investigative commission.

Several government partners, including Unidas Podemos, ERC and the PDeCAT, then lamented that the emphasis was not placed on learning more about these messages.

The Esquerra spokesman, Gabriel Rufián, criticized that the commission on Operation Catalonia, agreed on June 28 – presented by ERC, Junts, PDeCAT, the CUP and BNG, and supported by PSOE and UP – had not yet been formed.

The green light from the socialists has finally arrived this Tuesday.

Congress has opened a deadline until March 21 for the groups to designate their representatives in the investigation commission.

"It should force all of us, independentistas or not, to resume talks so that the commission is set up as soon as possible," said PDeCAT deputy Sergi Miquel.

The first commission of investigation into the espionage plot against Bárcenas, known as the Kitchen commission, completed its work at the end of 2021 and Congress approved the opinion in February 2022, with the conclusion that Mariano Rajoy was the political person in charge of the Operation Kitchen, together with his

in the party, the former Defense Minister, María Dolores de Cospedal.