Spain Parliament OKs Probe Into Government 'political Police'
Fakhir Rizvi Published September 28, 2016 | 08:40 AM
MADRID, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 28th Sep, 2016 ) - Spanish lawmakers on Tuesday approved a commission to probe allegations that acting interior minister Jorge Fernandez-Diaz used ministry resources as "political police" against rivals.
The probe follows a conversation leaked in June between Fernandez-Diaz and the head of Catalonia's anti-fraud office, in which they discussed investigating pro-independence politicians in the region.
The lower house "approved the establishment of an investigation commission over the 'partisan' use of the interior ministry's resources," parliament announced late on Tuesday. The probe represents yet another thorn in the side of the ruling Popular Party, which has failed to form a government after two inconclusive elections, due to a lack of support in large part down to corruption scandals sullying the party.
On Monday, for instance, the trial of one of the PP's fallen stars for alleged misuse of funds when he was a banking boss began. Former IMF chief and ex-economy minister Rodrigo Rato is being tried with 65 other former executives and board members at Caja Madrid and Bankia, whose near-collapse sparked an EU bailout of Spain's financial sector.
Antonio Trevin, a lawmaker for the Socialist party which proposed forming the commission, said Tuesday they wanted "to clarify whether this government, and particularly its interior minister, have created a political police," and whether "the prime minister knows about it".
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