Política

“Absolute zero.” “None.” “Neither by action nor by omission.” Félix Sanz Roldán, who was director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) between 2009 and 2019, has categorically denied that Spanish spies participated in any activity related to the so-called Kitchen operation, to steal information from the former treasurer of the Popular Party Luis Bárcenas. “The CNI always acts with absolute respect for the law. “No government of any color – of the four I had the honor to serve – asked me to do anything illegal,” Sanz Roldán assured in his testimony as a witness in the trial about the parapolice operation at the National Court.

Loyalty and silence. Two powerful words that help in those moments in life as in politics when you have to open your eyes and others when you have to close them. On December 17, 2020, when I had heart surgery, I experienced one of the latter. While everyone

José Luis Ábalos has presented his defense as if he were facing a murder charge: no body, no crime. Where is all the money they accuse him of hiding? It has not appeared and as he has defended before the prosecutor, they can “pawn” but they will not find it for a very simple reason. According to the former minister, it will not surface because it does not exist.

María Jesús Montero (Sevilla 1966) left the vice presidency of the Government to fight in the battle of Andalusia against Juanma Moreno, president of the Junta and leader of the PP in this community for the last eight years.

In the judicial universe, where information leaks are commonplace, the fact that the former Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz was convicted for revealing secrets in the case of the confessed tax fraud by Ayuso’s boyfriend, Alberto González Amador, was for the convicted “a very hard surprise,” among other things because during the judicial process there were also leaks, as he evidenced yesterday in his first interview after the sentence on Lo de Évole, from La Sexta.

The Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, held a telephone conversation this Sunday with his Spanish counterpart, José Manuel Albares, with whom he discussed the details of the ongoing negotiation to end the war with the United States.

A technical issue with the official plane carrying the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, to Armenia to participate in the European Political Community summit forced him to make a landing in Turkey.

The leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has joined the Andalusian electoral campaign today and has called for a majority vote for Juanma Moreno’s candidacy to ensure “stability until the year 2030.”

If the far-right Vox decided to pressure the Popular Party by presenting initiatives in all town halls in favor of the principle of “national priority,” putting Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party in a tight spot in all territories following the investiture agreements sealed in Extremadura, Aragón, and soon in Castilla y León, now it is the PSOE who is counterattacking, and this Sunday it announced that it will register initiatives, in the form of motions or bills, in town halls, regional parliaments, the General Courts, the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (Femp), and the European Parliament, “to defend the principle of citizen equality that the PP and Vox intend to break with the concept of national priority.”

El Búnker