Pedro Sánchez discussed with the National Intelligence Center (CNI) the material related to 23F that the Government declassified yesterday and which can be consulted since midday on the Moncloa Palace website. Several government sources consulted by LA RAZÓN assure that the head of the Executive was aware of the scope of the 153 documents that today see the light after 45 years in the darkeven though not even the head of the Presidency can access them.
It is a different matter that you have an idea of what is there. In fact, yesterday it was the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, who announced to his colleagues in the Council of Ministers the holders of the papers in question. In any case, these same sources insist that the publication of the files will not put national security at risk. Precisely for this reason the Government addressed the matter with the National Intelligence Center.
In Spain, The only person with the ability to snoop at will into the deepest secrets of the State is the person responsible for intelligence.. And, eventually, the head of state if he requires the person in charge of the center. Executive sources explain that, in truth, they do not know how many classified documents exist in Spain because “there is no list”. For this reason, the Government maintains that it has declassified “those he has found”. Specifically, those that are distributed by the ministries of Defense, Interior and Foreign Affairs, which yesterday began to digitize all the material. The Government has maintained the top secret your decision to publish these funds. For this reason, it was “recently” brought to the attention of the Royal House. “It was not communicated before precisely to avoid any leak”sources from the Executive grant.
As this newspaper reported yesterday, the head of the House of HM the King was notified “previously” of the personal decision made by the head of government. In the Executive, in any case, they reiterate that what is known today “it will not change” the story beyond “some unimportant detail”according to a trusted official of President Sánchez in Moncloa.
What everyone agrees on is that the declassification of the 23F files corresponds to a direct and personal decision of the leader of the PSOE; which is why the opposition accuses him of wanting to use the past as “smokescreen” to escape from a complicated present and a more than uncertain future. The President of the Government is cornered by several scandals and manifest parliamentary weaknesswhich prevents him from guaranteeing the approval of the classified information law. Precisely, that law establishes that not all documents can be made public if there is a superior cause of national security or defense that justifies keeping them classified.
He 23F constitutes the founding story on which a good part of the legitimacy of the parliamentary Monarchy in Spain has been based. But every story, when faced with the evidence of the documents, risks being confirmed or qualified. And the Government has wanted to play with that, despite being aware that there will be nothing that will substantially alter it. That already gives this decision by Sánchez a clear political intention.
The scope will depend on the content that comes to light. Although everything indicates that There will be nothing that contradicts that the Monarchy had a clear action aligned with the constitutional order.. In politics, the symbolic dimension structures collective memory and conditions the interpretation of the facts. The declassification offers verifiable data. What Sánchez has decided to put into play is how these data dialogue with one of the great symbols of the Transition. The Government justifies everything based on the “transparency”.
The management of official secrets It is a competition managed by the department of Felix Bolaños for almost three years.
The President of the Government gave it to the detriment of the Minister of Defense, Margaret Robles. Bolaños, faced with Robles after the Pegasus casewon that fight, understood as a gesture towards the independence allies. Sánchez did not want secrets to be controlled in a department where forces that some sectors of the PSOE consider to be working hostile to the coalition.