Podemos founder Pablo Iglesias has called on Wednesday for “the police commanders and their political bosses responsible for this to go to prison,” in reference to the illegal spying on more than fifty members of the party during Mariano Rajoy’s last term in office.
“But, after the PSOE has legitimised the judicial right by sharing the CGPJ with the PP, does anyone believe that there will be no impunity? I hope I am wrong,” Iglesias added. via a message on X.
Iglesias had previously shared several messages from Podemos members, such as those from the party’s general secretary, Ione BelarraThe MP has denounced that the Spying carried out by the Police on more than fifty Podemos deputies During the Government of Mariano Rajoy it was not only against his party: “It was against democracy and social progress. which represented our space.”
Belarra has also accused the PSOE of legitimising the PP’s “dirty political and judicial war” by agreeing with Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party on the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary. The Podemos MP has highlighted that Irene Montero, now a member of the European Parliament, was spied on “by 18 police users in 28 searches between 2015 and 2016”.This is the dirty political and judicial war that the PSOE has just legitimised by reaching an agreement with the PP on the CGPJ“Belarus said.
According to the documentation sent by the police force to the National Court, to which elDiario.es has had access, those affected are at least 55 deputies of the party. The Court has the records of the internal consultations that police officers from different staffs made in the databases on elected officials, reports Peter AguedaThe spying took place during the Interior Ministry’s dirty war against the party then led by Pablo Iglesias.
Among those spied on are Iglesias, his former collaborator and now parliamentary spokesperson for Sumar, Iñigo Errejón, the current second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz –then a Podemos MP–, or Belarra, current leader of Podemos, as well as the MEP Irene Montero.
The former Secretary of Organization of Podemos, Pablo Echenique, has also expressed his rejection of the illegal spying by the National Police on more than fifty Podemos deputies.In Russia? In Iran? No, in Spain“, wrote the former MEP in X. The illegal spying took place during the PP government led by Rajoy.
“Meanwhile, the media published false rubbish about them,” Echenique said in reference to the Podemos MPs affected, “and every time they interviewed them they asked them to be self-critical.”
Former Podemos MP Juan López de Uralde is also among the congressmen spied on by the National Police and stated this Wednesday that the espionage of Mariano Rajoy’s Executive is “Another reason to get up and keep fighting“The PP’s patriotic police spied on Unidas Podemos deputies in order to destroy us,” added the current coordinator of Alianza Verde in a message on X.
Compromís MP Joan Baldoví, after learning that he was spied on: “We’ll see each other in court”
Among the deputies spied on is also the leader and deputy of Compromís Joan Baldoví.On 15 occasions they entered the police base looking for my name“, said the candidate for the Valencian Generalitat in last year’s regional elections. Baldoví stressed that espionage is a “prohibited”, “illegal” and “deeply anti-democratic” practice.
“Is it a crime to be left-wing? Is it a crime to be a member of Compromís? Why don’t left-wing parties or citizens have the same rights as those on the right?” Baldoví said in a message posted on X. The progressive MP described Mariano Rajoy’s government as the “government of shame”, a government “that used the police to attack democratic parties or cover up its corruption”. Baldoví closed his statement with a message “to those who spied on me”: “See you in court”.
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