Mr. X has been an unsolved mystery for thirty years; it took a decade to identify M. Rajoy in a courtroom; Z is the first president in history to be charged, and now, the Civil Guard infers that The One is Pedro Sánchez. Infer is a malevolent verb that runs rampant in the reports of the Central Operative Unit (UCO). According to the RAE, it means to deduce something or draw it as a conclusion, but it can also be interpreted as “to cause physical or moral harm.” In the PSOE, they assure, they are suffering from it.
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Sánchez’s problem is not the disintegration of the investiture majority in Congress, but the frantic activity of the UCO and its close relatives in the UDEF. In the PSOE, they have gone from being “different” from the PP in the face of corruption to finding themselves surrounded by “fakes, opportunists, and resentful people” with the Leire case.
In that summary, the sewer meets the sewer, and in the one Leire Díez navigates, the second commandment is broken by invoking the figure of the president in vain. The denomination The One is recurrent among security obsessives. In Matrix , the protagonist is The One , the chosen one, and there was an independentist group that used that formula during the procés to refer to their leader. Nicknames proliferated, and they carried three phones to try to evade communication interception, although they later fell victim to the most analog Moleskine.
Leire Díez boasts to her interlocutors that she is “in charge,” from the PSOE and beyond; of having the “best connections” and believes her modus operandi : “The best way to do things is to be nothing.” And without being anything, she was cited in Ferraz, at the Attorney General’s Office, she met with the director of the Civil Guard…
Operation Catalonia now accumulates the largest number of confessed crimes never judged
Cleaning one sewer from another sewer creates grotesque situations for the victims of Operation Catalonia. Leire Díez’s offers to former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo or the conversation with Francisco Martínez, former number two of the Interior Ministry with the PP, are the umpteenth confession of alleged crimes never judged committed by state institutions against independentist leaders. Operation Catalonia appeared at the Kitchen trial with Villarejo and in the process against the Pujol family, but it gets stuck in the courts with every complaint. Only former police director Eugenio Pino was convicted of revealing secrets of Jordi Pujol jr. contained in a pen drive .
Stumbling through the courts, the lawsuit by former president Artur Mas against Jorge Fernández Díaz and Mª Dolores de Cospedal for Pegasus espionage persists. It was filed in Barcelona last summer; a court rejected it, declaring itself incompetent, and the Provincial Court confirmed it. Mas sent it to Madrid and, in April, the National Court returned it to Barcelona. Since then, it has been passed from hand to hand in the Ciutat de la Justícia. No one rejects it, but no one wants it. The wait is not in vain. To Villarejo’s illustrative audios, Leire Díez’s are now added. “There were actions aimed at generating cases or bringing to light corruption cases involving relevant figures for the independentist movement, with prospective information gathering, yes. The machine was forced, of course,” explains Fernández Díaz’s former right-hand man. The former president’s lawyers will analyze these new audios and add them to the lawsuit as a complement.
Sánchez has gone from “disappointment” with José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán to addressing Leire Díez’s “escapades.” “I do not do, nor have I done, what others did to me,” the president maintains. Sánchez officially recognized the existence of lawfare in the investiture agreement with Junts. It was signed in Brussels by Santos Cerdán, whom the UCO places at the head of the Leire Díez plot with the aim of deactivating judicial cases that would implicate the Government and the president. This week, in Barcelona, Sánchez once again committed to the content of that document in the umpteenth gesture to retain Junts’ votes. In the post-convergent leadership, they assure that there have been no contacts and that Sánchez’s outstretched hand “is not love, it is sex, and toxic.” The relationship is broken, but coexistence is inevitable despite the stench of the sewers.
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