Reforming the CNI, another cession to separatism

Sánchez's servility with Catalan separatism aggravates the institutional deterioration that is causing the current government to drift.

The President of the Government is unable to calm the anger of his partners over the wiretapping of Catalan separatist leaders authorized by the Supreme Court. Not even his announcements yesterday in Congress to reform the norm that regulates the CNI and the Law of Official Secrets of the year 1968 satisfied the independence movement, which requires him to assume political responsibilities. Instead, Sánchez opted for a self-exculpatory speech, unloading on the CNI and the Supreme Court judge who supervises it, in another rude exercise of helplessness to public institutions, any possible ruling.

Before, he dedicated the beginning of his speech to reproaching the PP for its cases of corruption in the past to divert attention from its parliamentary fragility, the result of its pact with those who take advantage of every opportunity to erode the State with their malicious complicity. An example of the weakness of the Executive is that, after listening to the acid reproaches poured out by the separatists for this case, it does not have the necessary support to be able to approve the measures announced by the president, already provided for in the Moncloa Regulatory Plan since 2020.

It would not be the first time that the intelligence services have been reformed after a public controversy, but it is the first time that it is due only to the particular convenience of the president to retain the support of his partners. Sánchez wanted to cover with transparency what is nothing more than a new transfer to the separatists, such as the dismissal of the previous director of the CNI or including Bildu, ERC and Junts in the parliamentary commission of official secrets. A sterile servility that aggravates the institutional deterioration that is causing the drift of the current Government.