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"No, I will not resign, because I and my team have not committed any illegality." The choral request from PP, Ciudadanos, and Vox to leave office has made no dent this afternoon in the Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska. Although nervous, irritated, even looking tired, the minister has not left a single trace of his intentions.

Grande-Marlaska has the absolute backing of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, who today in Congress has linked the dismissal of the Colonel of the Civil Guard, Diego Pérez de los Cobos, with the so-called sewers of the Interior. Something that the minister himself has reinforced later.

The dismissal of Pérez de los Cobos, who was at the head of the Madrid Command, has put the minister in the pillory because he denied from the outset that it was linked to the judicial investigation into the protests that the Government authorized in Madrid, with the coronavirus in the process of expansion, and for the different versions it has given. Today he insisted on relating it to a previous leak of the report, commissioned by the judge to Pérez de los Cobos, who assures that he did not stop but was the Secretary of State for Security, at the proposal of the director of the Civil Guard, María Gámez .

The minister denies that there could be anything illegal because neither he nor his team "requested any report from the Civil Guard or be aware of" its content, after a reserved note released yesterday acknowledged in writing that the dismissal of Pérez de los Cobos was It produced "for not reporting the development of the investigations and actions of the Civil Guard, within the operational framework and of the Judicial Police, for the purposes of knowledge." What was originally related only to a pre-planned "loss of confidence" remodel has eventually become tied to 8-M.

But the minister linked it only to a previous leak of that report, which led "to request an indication of what had happened and why the chain of command was omitted." To you, said to the PP deputy, Ana Belén Vázquez, "it does not matter to you that an investigation is leaked but that the director of the Civil Guard, the secretary of state or the minister" are aware that investigations are being carried out to avoid that leak. "A leak, he has repeated," is a crime "and" may discredit an investigation. "

According to Marlaska "the values ​​of the Civil Guard do not seem strange" that the dome of the Interior is interested in the actions and the leaks. "That is to guarantee the neutrality, impartiality and professionalism of public officials, unlike what happened with the PP government," he added.

In this way, the minister has endorsed an alleged fight within the Ministry to end the so-called 'patriotic police' in the Interior, which fabricated tailored reports and spied on political opponents during Jorge Fernández Díaz's time.

The head of the Interior has reiterated that "he has not lied" in the explanations he has given about the departure of Pérez de los Cobos, despite the fact that he always said, at least until the reserved note was disclosed, that no one from his department interested in the 8-M report. Then Interior clarified that about its content. Today in Congress he has repeated that the reasons are the remodeling of his team and the "loss of confidence". "I did not want to say more because I have professional respect for the career of Pérez de los Cobos." You are trying to find out more reasons to disrupt that professional career, "he said, hinting that there are reasons beyond this episode, in which He does not want to go in. In fact, he has assured that the reasons for the dismissal have been put in writing in case he wants to appeal.

PP, Ciudadanos and Vox have insistently asked for his resignation and they have done so with harsh appeals. "He is not a minister without prestige, he is a finished minister," said the popular deputy. Vox MP, Ignacio Gil Lázaro, has accused him of telling "lies" that "he offends the toga he wore", in reference to his career as a judge, and of being a "minion apprentice". And the spokesman for Ciudadanos, Edmundo Bal, has also said that he "lies" and that he does not have "enough dignity to present his resignation."

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