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These days, dismissals and appointments in the Civil Guard occupy the most bitter debates that are remembered in the Congress of Deputies. The institution founded in 1844 by Francisco Javier Girón y Ezpeleta, Duke of Ahumada, thus acquires a political relevance totally unrelated to the principles of its foundation. Javier Chico de Guzmán y Girón (Madrid, 76 years old), current Duke of Ahumada, considers this unexpected role of the institution created by his great-great-grandfather to be a passenger. "It is a punctual episode, the waters will return to their channel. In 176 years of history, the Civil Guard has had good and bad moments, but it has survived because the main reason for its existence has always been to safeguard the institutional order and be at the service from Spain".

With the Tejero parenthesis, that was an isolated case within a group of 80,000 numbers. Tejero was a loose verse. Now, everything that affects the prestige of the Civil Guard hurts your soul. In addition to Ahumada, you are Marquis de las Amarillas, Great of Spain, and you have as ancestors the Emperor Moctezuma and Luis XIV. Moctezuma had two daughters that Hernán Cortés married two Spanish soldiers. When they killed the Aztec emperor with a stone, Carlos V gave them a life pension, which was collected up to a great-great-grandmother of mine in 1840. All this pedigree has no merit whatsoever nor does it carry the least privilege. It should only be an acknowledgment that makes you responsible for your traditions and a commitment to your predecessors. I carry the title of Duke of Ahumada with great pride and I try to carry it also with a certain dignity. But the most important distinction that my tombstone will carry will be that of the Civil Guard. Honorary. A distinction with which the Institution honors those who consider that it has certain merits. There are only 17 honorary civil guards, it is a privilege. From time to time there are attempts to politicize the Benemérita. To use it as a throwing weapon is to go against its own essence. Their work has been and is very important for civil society. My great-great-grandfather, who had great organizational capacity, created the Corps in three months, at a time when it was not possible to travel through the interior of the country. And the Duke of Ahumada and the 8,000 numbers he had chosen among the militia manage to bring order to the roads, a progress comparable to what the AVE network currently supposed. In addition to the creation of the Barracks Houses in the towns, which meant an enormous closeness to the people. And the College of Young Guards for those people without families and in the most absolute misery. And a kind of pioneering social security that included pensions for widows, insurance ... All this has to do with society, not with politics. The Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, assures that there is no temptation in the Civil Guard uprising. I think so too. I know the institution well and I have many military friends and they are all constitutionalists and with absolute respect for the civil power. Can one be left-wing and patriotic? To deny it would be nonsense. The flag and constitutional symbols are not the patrimony of an ideology, they are the property of all. Everyone can have their own idea of ​​how to get the best for their country and they are all respectable. That was one of the things that I shared with my friends Carlos Falcó and Alfonso Cortina. With them you were at a lunch at the Academy of Gastronomy, soon after they died of the coronavirus. There is no certainty that the contagion arose there, but two assistants They have also suffered more, although with less intensity. There have been two brutal claps that life hits you. For me, the loss of two brothers. And the reason for coming to spend the confinement in the field, hardly without a social contract. Would your ancestor rise from the grave if he saw a woman at the head of the Civil Guard, as it happens now? He was an advance in everything. There is a joke from when there were hardly any women in the Corps: "What would your great-great-grandfather say if he saw a couple from the Civil Guard kissing?" And of course, it is a trap. Because it depends on how the couple is, if it is a male guard and a female guard, because nothing in particular seems very good to me. What about a male couple? It is part of the times we live in. The winner of 'Survivors' has been a civil guard. What do you think? I have not followed the program, but I am glad that the values ​​acquired in his professional life have been valid for the contest.

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