The audio recordings corner Cospedal: she will have to return to the Catalonia Operation commission.

BarcelonaThe string of audio recordings published in recent days about Operation Catalunya are cornering María Dolores de Cospedal. The former general secretary of the PP, who On Monday he appeared before the Congressional committee who is investigating the dirty war against the independence movement, will be summoned again in the Lower House with the support of the majority of parties. The PSOE has confirmed that it will vote in favor following the latest recordings broadcast by RAC1, in which the former Defense Minister also implicates Mariano Rajoy in the Kitchen plot. The votes of the socialists will be added to those of ERC, Junts, Sumar, Podemos and Bildu and will force Cospedal to a new interrogation in Parliament.

"We cannot accept as normal the serious audio recordings published [...] in which Cospedal points to theknowledge on the part of Mariano Rajoyof the facts being judged," argue the PSOE. In the latest audio recordings, again relating to a 2014 conversation between the Popular Party leader and the controversial commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, the then number two of the PP claims that Rajoy informed the overpriced merchant Luis Bárcenas de Díaz about the theft. "Corruption in the PP was not only systemic and widespread, but also normalized," criticizes the PSOE. patriotic policeAsked several times directly about the audio recordings, she refused to acknowledge them and questioned their authenticity, as did former PP leader in Catalonia Alícia Sánchez-Camacho, also named in the recordings of recent days, and Fernández Díaz himself in the same committee. Rajoy, who appeared three weeks ago in Congress, also denied the major allegations regarding the maneuvers of the state's sewers. ERC has requested that Rajoy, Sánchez-Camacho, Fernández-Díaz, and former Spanish President José María Aznar also appear again.

ERC and Junts jointly filed a request this Wednesday for the committee's board to submit the various audio recordings and witnesses of the four former PP leaders to the Prosecutor's Office, pointing to "falsehoods" and "indications of criminality." It should be remembered that Article 502 of the Penal Code It provides for sentences of six months to one year in prison or fines of 12 to 24 months for those summoned to a parliamentary committee who "lie." The PSOE is urging patience for now, but does not rule out forwarding the committee's entire conclusions to the public prosecutor once it has completed its work. "Each and every one of them will have to provide the necessary explanations to determine political and judicial responsibilities," states Ferraz officials.

Mas, determined to file a complaint

Who also does not rule out taking legal action once the commission concludes is the former president of the Generalitat Artur Mas, one of the victims of the patriotic police. In statements this Thursday to Ràdio Estel, the former head of the Government has said that the revelations about the Catalunya operation in recent days and the appearances in Congress "reinforce the arguments" to file a complaint against those responsible for the dirty war against the independence movement. "I am increasingly determined to file this complaint," he said, although he was pessimistic about the path it could take. "It has been dragging on for many years and the Spanish judicial system has not acted, it has been absolutely lazy," he criticized.

In the Audios published by RAC1 this MondayVillarejo boasts of having "changed the history of Catalonia" with the information about Mas and the Pujols that Cospedal and Sánchez-Camacho allegedly provided him. "From 62 to 50," says the commissioner, supposedly referring to the loss of CiU deputies in the 2012 Catalan elections. The recording, according to the station, took place at the headquarters on Génova Street in September 2014, months before the November 9 referendum, and Villarejo's interlocutor is... For now, the parties will question her again in Congress.