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Yes now. Fernando Grande-Marlaska has accelerated the pace and wanted to flip his ministry at a stroke. At the moment it is in the phase of the security dome, but it also wants to carry out a purge on the second level, in that of the operational heads of the different bodies. And all eyes have immediately turned to the Civil Guard.

The Interior Minister plans to carry out a purge in the dome of the Armed Institute. He wants managers who have not positioned themselves publicly or operationally hard against the process , controls that "do not bother too much" among the members of the government legislature.

The first piece that the independentistas wanted to charge, as EL MUNDO advanced, was the general chief of Catalonia, Pedro Garrido , a general with an internal prestige and who has been one of the capital pieces in the proceedings against those now convicted of sedition.

Garrido was tanned in the Basque Country, in Vitoria, fighting against ETA terrorism. A man with no hair on his tongue. He already denounced in a public address the "radical, autocratic, sectarian and supremacist independence" that prevailed in Catalonia. "We will be one of the key pieces so that the action of the Government of the Nation, responsible for public security in Spain, is also present throughout the territory of Catalonia."

In that act was also the current delegate of the Government in Catalonia, Teresa Cudillera , who went to temper bagpipes with the Mossos who, contrary to what the Government said, did abandon the acts for the Day of the Civil Guard before they ended . His departure is a requirement of ERC, which considers him one of those responsible for the pressure against the CDR.

Search for commands accepted by Mossos and Ertzaintza

This will not be the only relief / dismissal. The minister wants out of the dome all those who have been in the same line of Garrido. His profile: Civil Guard commanders who are accepted by the Mossos dashboard, well seen by Ertzaintza and, in addition, are less straight in interpreting what has happened in Catalonia to dejudicialize the Catalan situation.

It does not have it easy. The unit of action of the Armed Institute against the process has been quite clear. Leading the machinery to prevent the referendum was Colonel Diego Pérez de los Cobos , another of the black beasts of independence.

In the structure that Grande-Marlaska wants to carry out, it is very likely that modifications will take place in order to bring together positions and thus have to name fewer reliefs. In fact, on the table, the possibility of creating a single command that directed both the Police and the Civil Guard came to be once again, as was the case with Joan Mesquida at the time of Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, discarded at the last minute.

The current minister has already shown that his pulse is not shaking and that it is cold when making decisions. Last Tuesday, in private circles, he announced that he had no intention of making changes and that if he specified them, it would be next week. And everyone remembers how he made the decision to dismiss at the head of the Central Operating Unit ( UCO ) one of the most emblematic colonels within the Civil Guard, Manuel Sánchez Corbí .

Marlaska does not want controls 'taxes'

Sources close to the minister point out that two have been the main reasons for carrying out such extensive renovation. The minister wants to have his team. Many of the appointments that he has now revoked consider that they were imposed / advised from the ranks of the PSOE, as is the case of the outgoing Secretary of State for Security, Ana Botella .

Others had to be agreed with the Ministry of Defense and the name of Felix Mazon was more of Margarita Robles than Grande-Marlaska. The distance between the two ministers is growing, and that is why the head of the Interior tries to gain space by making efforts to close the name of who will take the reins of the Civil Guard and almost impose it on the Ministry of Defense.

His first survey went to the judge who has been instructing the case of Pablo Casado's master. Carmen Rodríguez Medel , with a conservative profile, is the daughter and sister of Colonels of the Civil Guard. But it seems that the signing attempt has not come to an end. The proposal did not advance. The appointment of the head of the Civil Guard must be agreed between the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Defense.

The name that is clear is the one that will occupy the portfolio of Secretary of State for Security. This is Rafael Pérez , the minister's chief of staff until now. Magistrate too, they have been friends for many years. They agreed on the General Council of the Judiciary.

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