Mr. Rajoy and Mr. Fernández Díaz, lies and cowardice

If Jorge Fernández Díaz is capable of lying and saying that he does not recognize that conversation with Villarejo that we have all heard ("I will deny, even under torture, that that meeting ever took place"), it is not surprising that yesterday he lied saying that the Catalunya operation did not exist. After all, he also says that he knows nothing about the Kitchen case (the Bárcenas papers), for which the prosecutor is asking for 15 years in prison and for him to be suspended from membership by his own party.

But the most relevant feature of yesterday's appearance In the Congressional commission of inquiry, it was not the lie of Fernández Díaz and M., but cowardice. It is a trademark of the house: not knowing and not remembering.

In the trial of the Process, in the Supreme Court, Rajoy said that he did not know which judge ordered the police charges on October 1, that the vice president informed him of everything that happened that day (and the vice president said that she found out about the police charges on television and that she never gave it a go). Police and the Civil Guard, that he never made a decision about a police operation because that is a matter for those who command the operations, that he did not know if explanations were requested for the police operation, that he did not make any decision about opening investigations, that he did not remember whether or not he used the word violence to define what happened in Catalonia that day, and that he did not remember having said that the referendum did not cost a euro of public money ("If you say that I said it, I must have said it, but I do not remember").

In short, if these distinguished defenders of the unity of Spain have always shirked their responsibilities even when they had the obligation to face up to it, we could not expect them to be brave yesterday.