Since the formation of the December 13 coalition government, we have become accustomed to the fact that the political stage has effectively turned into a circus arena.
More or less conscious clowning is intended to cover up the lack of preparation to govern the country. Therefore, when assessing the actions of Prime Minister Tusk, it is very useful to know about similar events in the Western democracies, on which the current government so faithfully focuses.
Let’s not forget that even reading the mainstream media, it is clear that the Spanish government is spying on politicians.
The left-wing daily El Pais wrote about the case on July 16, 2020:
The Spanish secret services have the Pegasus espionage program of the Israeli company NSO, sources close to the intelligence service confirm. A version of this malware used to steal data from devices hacked the mobile phones of Parliament Speaker Roger Torrent and former minister Ernest Maragall, both from the ERC party.
(El Pais, by Miguel Gonzalez “Spanish secret services have Torrent spyware”, 16/07/2020)
As one might assume, the Spaniards, and more specifically the People’s Party, that is, Tusk’s EPP colleagues, were allowed to monitor 67 Catalan opposition politicians with impunity, and no one caused a stir in Brussels or demanded investigative commissions in the country. What a coincidence that the EC only demanded an explanation in the case of the Polish conservative government’s use of Pegasus…
Moreover, to make things quite pathetic, it was Spaniard Esteban Pons, the same one who wanted to help KO overthrow the Polish government in January 2022. he sits on the parliamentary benches of a formation that, while in power, kept an eye on its political opponents. And he had the audacity to encourage his KO colleagues to tackle the Pegasus pseudo-scandal in Poland. In an interview for Euroactiv.pl he said:
If (Pegasus) was used against a person’s right to control their privacy and was used by the Polish government, this is very disturbing. So we want to know whether the Polish government used this system against Polish citizens, but also against the rest of European citizens, because the scandal took place during the election campaign for the European elections. This is why the European Parliament should perhaps set up a commission of inquiry to try to uncover the whole truth.
However, this is just a funny episode compared to the Pegasus case, which is currently shaking public opinion in Spain. After a year of hiding the shameful affair, the Sánchez government openly admitted in May 2022 that Pedro Sánchez’s mobile phone was spied on by the Pegasus program and that as a result of the hacking more than 2.6 GB of data was seized. In May 2023, the European Commission recognized Morocco as the author of this act of espionage.
All of Spain has been wondering for more than two years what was on their Prime Minister’s phone that made Sánchez change Spain’s policy towards Western Sahara by 180°, giving in to Morocco’s demands and betraying 46 years of Spanish foreign policy, including UN Resolution 690 of 1991 r.
If the Moroccan services are in possession of the Prime Minister’s sensitive data with which they can blackmail him, it is not surprising that he would surrender to the many excessive demands of King Mohammed VI of Morocco.
And it is a scandal when foreign services can confiscate the contents of the phone of the Prime Minister and two of his ministers (national defense and home affairs), threatening the security and interests of the state. Why is there no mention of the exploits of the Moroccan intelligence services as they spied on the highest officials of Spain and France under the noses of the EU, which is so concerned about security and the climate?
The fact that the authorities control their citizens using this software or politicians with other options is nothing special, especially in a situation of first a hybrid war on the border and then a large-scale war in the neighboring country.
How does this compare with the situation of the Spaniards, who suddenly learned yesterday that Prime Minister Sánchez, despite the terrible state of the state finances, announced during his visit to Rabat that Spain will invest 45 billion euros in Morocco.
In our case, Donald Tusk seems to be bound by some form of pressure or blackmail, as he blocks strategic development projects that clearly benefit Germany.
Meanwhile, Poles, especially Poles, are facing an inflated alleged wiretapping scandal, which in fact simply concerns the self-defense of the state and its authorized operational activities in the name of defense against foreign services.
Source: wPolityce