Irene Montero made these statements after El País made public information that the “PP patriotic police” spied on the 69 deputies obtained by Podemos through the Interior databases in the December 2015 elections.
Podemos MEP Irene Montero has labelled “authentic blow to democracy” the extrajudicial investigations against elected Podemos officials ordered by the Ministry of the Interior in 2015 and 2016.
Montero made these statements after El País published information that the “PP patriotic police” spied on the 69 deputies who represented Podemos obtained during the December 2015 elections via databases of the Ministry of the Interior, including Pablo Iglesias, Yolanda Díaz, Ione Belarra and Irene Montero.
‘What they have done is change the election results, change the voice of the people through a strategy political persecutionbecause it was also done against the pro-independence formations,” the former Minister of Equality denounced in an interview on Rac1.
He has literally maintained that in those years a media and legal war was waged against Podemos “on land, at sea and in the air” to destroy the confidence of millions of people in a political force capable of transforming things.
On his part, Sumar’s spokesperson in Congress said: Inigo Errejon, has called for the political and police officials who spied on Podemos deputies to take criminal responsibility.
‘They accused us of wanting to establish a dictatorship in Spain They spied on us like dictatorships do“In a normal country, political leaders should take criminal responsibility,” he wrote on the X network.
Source: EITB
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