The secretary general of the PP, Teodoro García Marlaska, on Thursday called for the resignation of acting Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska for having dinner at a restaurant in Madrid while the riots in Catalonia continued.

In a tweet, García Egea echoes information from Okdiario , according to which "Marlaska had dinner last night at the trendy cocktail bar in Chueca while Barcelona was burning."

"The Government of Sánchez is overwhelmed. His Interior Minister must resign," wrote the PP leader.

García Egea criticizes that "at the worst moment, when thousands of policemen split their faces defending the Catalans against the violent, their top manager did not seem very worried."

This morning, in several interventions in various media, Marlaska explained that yesterday he was in his office from eight in the morning until 11.00 pm, that he went out "to have a hamburger" with his chief of staff and that he returned to his office dispatch "one hour later".

In defense of Marlaska, the acting Minister of Development, José Luis Ábalos, has responded to the PP, assuring that whoever is "surpassed" is its secretary general.

"The one who is overwhelmed is the one who wrote the tweet, if Marlaska is having a quiet dinner, he is not overwhelmed. It is contradictory, or you are serene or you are overwhelmed," said Ábalos in statements on Wave Zero.

Ábalos has reiterated that the Executive "controls the situation" in Catalonia and has demanded that the PP have "prudence" as a government party and has affected García Egea that when he speaks like this he seems to be the leader of an "extraparliamentary" party.

"Everyone has some responsibility because those incidents such as the declaration of independence and illegal referendum occurred during the term of Mariano Rajoy," he said.

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