United We Can deputy for Bizkaia Roberto Uriarte has asked for the Pegasus spying to be investigated and responsibilities “purged to the end”. It also calls for amendments to the “anachronistic and obsolete” law on official secrets.
United We Can deputy for Bizkaia, Roberto Uriarte, assured in an interview on Radio Popular Herri Irratia collected by Europa Press on Tuesday that the alleged espionage pro-independence politicians is a thing “extremely serious and very worrying” For this reason, he has requested that it be investigated and that “responsibilities be purged to the end”.
As he has warned, “one of the greatest shortcomings of democracy is the” confidentiality and that the states continue to maintain a deep state, a set of institutions that spy on people. a democratic state”.
For this reason he advocated “Change” the Official Secrets Act and “to introduce the necessary tools so that these elements of the deep state that operate in this opacity cannot work and, if they ever work, they do not go unpunished and this kind of act will never be repeated.”
That’s why he has warned that “this kind of loophole is very concerning and should be for all citizens, not just people who appear to be spied on, because all people are likely to be spied on.”
Uriarte has insisted that the prosecution “must act with great agility and speed and give absolute guarantees to the citizens”, which must be “extremely demanding”.
Source: EITB
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