The Catalonia Operation commission hears from Oriol Junqueras and Xavier Trias today.

The commission of inquiry into the so-called Operation Catalunya, which is being held in the Congress of Deputies, will hear today from former vice president of the Generalitat and current leader of Esquerra Republicana, Oriol Junqueras, and former mayor of Barcelona, ​​Xavier Trias. After more than a year in operation, the commission investigating the alleged existence of a paramilitary network linked to the Ministry of the Interior during the PP governments during the independence process has been hearing for six months without any signs of reaching any conclusion soon , and parliamentary sources believe it could be extended for the remainder of the legislature.

Trias intends to join Artur Mas and file a complaint against those responsible for illegal espionage.

The first to answer questions from the commissioners this morning will be Trias, who was a minister under Jordi Pujol and a member of Congress, and who served as mayor of Barcelona between 2011 and 2015. The former Convergent party member announced a few weeks ago his intention to file a complaint against those responsible for illegal espionage – in 2017 the lawsuit he filed for libel and slander against the former deputy director of operations of the Police, Eugenio Pino, linked to the so-called patriotic police , for having attributed to him a false bank account in Switzerland was dismissed – following the same path as the former president of the Generalitat, Artur Mas.

In fact, Mas announced his decision to file a complaint against those who "engineered" Operation Catalunya and against those who illegally spied on him for five years during his appearance before the Lower House committee on May 5, the same day that former Vice President of the Government, Soraya Sáenz de Santa María, appeared. The former PP leader, following the same line of argument as the other members of the Government during the years of the independence process who appeared—Mariano Rajoy, María Dolores de Cospedal, Jorge Fernández Díaz, and Cristóbal Montoro—denied the existence of an operation to illegally investigate Catalan pro-independence leaders.

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In the afternoon, it will be Oriol Junqueras's turn. The ERC leader, who served as Carles Puigdemont's vice president between 2016 and 2017 and was convicted along with the other leaders of the independence process , has lamented in recent weeks that the courts have not acted ex officio in the face of the latest audio recordings released in which former PP secretary general María Dolores de Cospedal spoke with former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo about Operation Catalunya. In March, following the release of these recordings, ERC demanded a new appearance by Rajoy, Fernández Díaz, Cospedal, and Alicia Sánchez Camacho , and also requested that José María Aznar be summoned.