Opinion

“Substitution”

photo_camera Pedro Sánchez and Pere Aragones

Someone had to fall. That much was clear. The scandal, true and amplified, about the spying through the Pegasus programme demanded some sacrifice. First of all, it was the pro-independence leaders who were hurt and offended: how could they, the defenders of freedom, who have done nothing, not cry out to heaven! Please... Then, in the midst of the controversy, it was announced that the mobile phones of Pedro Sánchez himself, President of the Government, of his Minister of Defence, Margarita Robles (on whom the National Research Centre depends, as you know), and of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, had also been spied on. What a coincidence! If the bomb explodes, then let it explode properly. And, of course, several at the same time, so that we disperse the fronts and add more noise to the noise.

The polemic is served. Demands have never ceased to be made, and even more so when you see the results. Do you want to continue to be where you are? Well, that's the price. The tug-of-war and explanations without content are not going away either. Sooner or later, some head had to roll, and so it has. Goodbye, Madam Director of the CNI. Goodbye Paz Esteban, thank you very much for your services... Here peace and then glory... But no, things are not that simple. I would not like to be in the place of the now ex-director, feeling her mind and heart clashing to calm her anger, even though it is well known that when you hold a position you can leave it at any moment. And the reasons matter, how could they not!

Substitution or replacement, not dismissal. Let's laugh a little: do you really think that if you say that she has been replaced by another high-level official and that it's nothing else, we're going to take the explanations for granted? Ah, sorry, her "replacement is due to a security breach", said Pedro Sánchez. Relief not replacement. To want to play with language, in this case, is to question the intelligence of the citizens.

The government's partners are rubbing their hands together because they are making progress in their aspirations to achieve their goals. For its main partner, Unidas Podemos, and the pro-independence parties, the dismissal of the director of the CNI is a step forward, but they are not satisfied. They demand and will demand more. We shall see. It will be because they know that power, or rather, staying in power, has a cost that whoever has to pay it will pay it. Another concession we should note.

That there is spying, we already know. That it is legal, too; that illegalities are committed, well, that comes as no surprise either. Otherwise, there would be no sense in the existence of spies, neither in the CNI nor in other organisations in different countries. And for illegalities, there is justice. What is regrettable is that we are being taken for fools. Be serious and stop trying to make fools of us.