The former commissioner of the National Police José Manuel Villarejo has assured this Wednesday in Congress his intention to vote for the current President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in the next general elections, since he considers him his “idol” for having dismissed General Félix Sanz Roldán as director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI), despite the fact that the latter had told him that they had information about “his father-in-law's saunas.”
“If I make it to December alive, I will vote for Pedro Sánchez because he is the bravest president I have ever met,” Villarejo told the commission of inquiry into the 'sewers' of the State and the 'Catalonia operation'.
Specifically, he alluded to the courage with which, in his opinion, the chief executive acted when the then head of the CNI “came up with the thing about the father-in-law's saunas and threw it in his face” advising him that he would not I was thinking of “renewing” the position. “He is my idol,” he has proclaimed.
Villarejo has made this comment in response to the PP spokesman in the commission, Luis Santamaría, who has been the first to bring up the “saunas” whose ownership is attributed to the father of Begoña Gómez, Sánchez's wife.
Santamaría has advanced that his party is “about to confirm the veracity of some documents” on this issue that “will undoubtedly give a lot of play” in the work of the commission.
Regarding the central issue that has led Villarejo to appear in Congress, the retired commissioner has defended that the 'Catalonia operation' was directed by the CNI and was devised from the “entrails” of the Presidency of the Government in the stage of Mariano Rajoy.
According to Villarejo, the “fundamental guidelines” were given directly by the secret services that Sanz Roldán commanded at the time.. “Neither the CNI nor the Civil Guard appear in this case. In my case there is no flying pussy, no 'coke', no generals who take the money and, nevertheless, I am here, asking me for 1,200 years, imagine the absurdity”, he lamented, alluding to the 'Mediator case' that affects the former socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo.
According to Villarejo, the 'Catalonia operation' was an “intelligence” effort to stop the challenge for independence in Catalonia, although he has denied that the objective was to fabricate false evidence against pro-sovereignty politicians. “The operation is not understood without you asking the CNI. It is one of the many operations in which, in my capacity as an intelligence agent, I worked for the Government.”