Junqueras demands justice and Trias apologizes for Operation Catalunya.

MadridThe last time Oriol Junqueras attended a formal session in Congress was on May 21, 2019, almost six years ago, when he was able to attend the chamber while in pretrial detention to be sworn in as a deputy. It didn't last long, because the Spanish elections were repeated that year and he had already been elected as a MEP. This Monday, he was able to express himself at length in the lower house during his appearance before the commission of inquiry into Operation Catalunya, where he wanted to send a message to the PSOE: "They have the political and moral duty to present to the Prosecutor's Office the conclusions of the evidence provided here and the lies that will be made just [of this, I am convinced."

The audio recordings that have recently emerged between the former number two of the PP, María Dolores de Cospedal, and former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, and other old ones between former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz and former director of the Anti-Fraud Office, Daniel de Alfonso, revealed patriotic police They tried to find dirt on Esquerra. They tried with the brother of the ERC leader, they asked the Andorran Private Bank if the Republican leader had money and they also tapped his phone – Junqueras has assured that he had his phone tapped long before the 1-O and the Catalunya scandal of the former president of the Generalitat Artur Mas or the former mayor of Barcelona Xavier Trias, who saw how on the cover ofThe World False information was published about his alleged foreign accounts.

For this reason, Trias unsuccessfully filed a complaint against the former leadership of the National Police and journalists from the aforementioned newspaper. He is now considering whether or not to follow in the footsteps of Artur Mas, considering that all legal actions for these events have ended in vain. "No one has apologized to me," lamented the former member of the Convergent Party. Trias is retired, no longer in politics, and has acknowledged that he wants to be asked for forgiveness. Specifically, from two people. One of them is former minister Jorge Fernández Díaz, whom he explained that he sometimes runs into on the street. "He tells me: 'I am Catholic, and this situation we have is very complicated.' And I tell him: 'It's very easy. I am too. You ask for my forgiveness, and I will have to forgive you.'"

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The other person from whom Trias expects an apology is the former mayor of Barcelona, ​​​​Ada Colau. in Barcelona en Comú. The former mayor does not believe that she lost the elections solely because of that, but she did criticize that the commons "used it in a bad way." on the other hand, Trias.

And Comuns has been spared a barrage of reproaches for how Ernest Maragall was deprived in 2019 and in the same Trias in 2023 of obtaining the mayoralty Pilar Vallugera, with a past in the Barcelona city council, PP to prevent independence mayoralties in the Catalan capital. The dialogue between Vallugera and Trias has been friendly - they have even considered using informal terms -, in a sort of truce in the ERC-Junts dispute that constantly rages in Congress, especially in contrast to how Gabriel Rufián tried to tickle Artur Mas during the interrogation a few weeks ago.

Along the same lines, Junts MP Josep Pagès didn't bother Junqueras either. In fact, he began his speech by recalling that he was a member of Esquerra for fifteen years. Rufián, however, opted to use the second person singular and not address himself formally as "you," wanting the ERC president to share personal experiences from his time in prison, which, for the time being, Junqueras preferred not to make public. Among other things, he explained how they spent the winter without heating and told anecdotes about colleagues in the center. "I had the opportunity to meet a lot of people from the PP," he recounted sarcastically. Junqueras was eager to pry and managed to upset the PP and Vox MPs when, in response to accusations of having carried out a coup d'état with the 1-O vote, he emphasized the Francoist origins of Alianza Popular.

Rufián, who left as soon as he finished his conversation "in the style of Évole's thing"-in the words of Vox MP Ignacio Gil Lázaro- with Junqueras, he has suggested that he write a book about his time in prison, and the ERC president has promised to follow his advice. In any case, Junqueras, who is also Catholic, has emphasized that "justice must be done" for the dirty war against the independents."