The intrusion of two computer scientists in Senate computers aggravates the tension between PP and PSOE | Spain

From nervousness to political trifulca. Once the scare is passed by the news that two computer scientists had been fired after accessing without permission To digital accounts of several senators, PP and PSOE have gone to confrontation for the demand for responsibilities. The tension between both formations has risen even more if it fits during this week by the management made by the Senate – with the absolute majority of the Popular Party – of the disciplinary file open to the marriage of eventual workers. The presidency of the institution ensures that both sought to look for information for a selection process of officials. The criticism and the registration of applications to demand more data – presented not only by the Socialists, but also by Esquerra and Junts – caused the extraordinary call in the last hours of two meetings of the table and the Board of spokespersons. The internal fire seems off, but the embers continue to fan the war between the two majority formations.

On one side of the ring, the PP accuses the socialists of spreading bulos and making political use of the matter. On the other, the PSOE censures the lack of diligence of the Presidency of the Upper House and argues that the popular want to minimize the severity of the consequences of the case. « This is the factoring of the bully and the misinformation, which has launched the PSOE in relation to the case of the dismissal of two workers, » said the spokeswoman of the Popular Party in the Upper House, Alicia García, this Friday, while blaming her adversary to be « denied and desperate. » « If this incident had occurred in Congress, we would already have the request for resignation of the president on the table by the PP or talk about fudge, » replied his socialist counterpart, Juan Espadas, who said the popular act « toxicly in their interventions. »

In the extraordinary meetings of the table and the Board of spokespersons were both the instructor of the workers sanctioning file and the Senate ICT director to inform the case, as specified by the services of the upper house in a statement. « Neither massive data infiltration, nor hacking, nor espionage, nor access to data or communications of the senators, » they said in the closed door. « There has been no access to computers or equipment or any senator keys have been used, » they added. « It was the obligation of the Senate to act soon and diligently, but it is also, to do it with responsibility and truth, » said the president of the Upper House, the popular Pedro Rollán.

But the complaints of the Socialists continue with the focus placed on the assumption of darkness with which the Senate has discussed the matter, internally denounced in October last year and known now. Also for the publication of the content of the dismissal letter one of the workers. As this newspaper advanced, this letter indicates that “the following are verified as proven facts: improper accesses (…) of JAR, from the IP address of his computer and through the users Admindeeg and adminpf – that he had due to his job – to the portfirmas of certain workers, officials and positions of the General Secretariat of the Senate – among them, members of the table, various senators and the major lawyer; Access that occurred since March 2024 and through which numerous documents of documents were made, including some personal. « The portfirmas is an application to sign documents electronically.

The Prosecutor’s Office will have to rule

With those complaints about the table, the PSOE demands an independent analysis. At the moment, the facts have been transferred to the Prosecutor’s Office, as he agreed unanimously at another extraordinary meeting held on Wednesday after the plenary. And in which the case saw the light. During that day the hangover of another episode was lived that put popular socialists with the weapons up. It was during the control session on Tuesday, when PP senator Francisco Bernabé delivered a supposedly toxic sandbag To protest the waste of Portman Bay in La Unión (Murcia) to the third vice president and minister for the ecological transition, Sara Aagesen, approaching even in her seat. A gesture that was denounced by the Socialists at the Police Station of the Upper House.

Some members of the popular group show their rejection privately before the episode. Bernabé devised the scene for himself, although he received the approval of those responsible for the group, according to PP sources. In fact, his spokesman, removed iron at the event this Friday, taking advantage of the press conference convened by the dismissal of computer scientists. « For a closed Portman sandbag perfectly, they file a complaint at the police station, but that Murcians have 60 million tons of mining waste in the Portman sands seems to be a pepper, » Garcia said. « It is unacceptable to justify the attitude and actions of his Senator Bernabé in the plenary leaving a bag of waste that he called toxic and pollutants together with the vice president of the government and that he wants us to laugh at him, » said the socialist swords.