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The Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has disdained the debate on his disapproval that will be voted on in Congress tomorrow and has been absent from the Chamber where PP, Vox and Citizens have riddled him with reproaches for "betraying" the principles he defended when He was a judge and now purge the same "who put their chest to defend him from bullets", in allusion to the dismissal of Colonel Diego Pérez de los Cobos and for having refused to inform him of the investigations that, by judicial order, the Civil Guard on 8-M.

The PP deputy, Ana Beltrán, in a stark intervention, regretted that "the record of a good judge cannot hide the treason of a minister." Beltrán has brought up the Pheasant case when Marlaska, as a magistrate, was precisely demanding that the Civil Guard inform him exclusively of his inquiries. Now, however, the deputy has stressed, "the story is another", with Marlaska "bent on a president who would not hesitate to squeeze every last drop of dignity in order to remain in La Moncloa."

Beltrán has drawn a cornered minister, who does not comply and who will be forgotten by millions of Spaniards "whose blood runs cold," he said, "upon seeing him sitting in the Sánchez government."

"We demand his cessation because he despises the separation of powers and rides on the back of the PSOE, at the service of Sánchez, whoever falls, even turning the Ministry into a machine of cessions to the nationalists." "This Government serves men of honor on a platter to enjoy and enjoy the independence movement," Beltrán has claimed. "The minister is guilty," said the deputy, recalling that Marlaska sits next to a vice president who praises Otegi and a president who agrees with Bildu.

Precisely, the abertzale spokeswoman Mertxe Aizpurúa, has assured that the interior minister "deserves a huge reproach" although not for the reasons that the PP has displayed, but for having looked the other way when being a judge in Euskadi he looked the other way and He ignored the torture. Bildu will not endorse the disapproval promoted by the Popular Party but he will not endorse Marlaska either.

Citizens who will support the disapproval, have made the absence of the Hemicycle minister ugly, like the rest of the spokesmen, an absence that in Vox's opinion only reveals his "cowardice".

For Cs it is evident that the dismissals decreed by Marlaska in the Civil Guard do nothing but "dignify" the dismissed. The orange formation has also been very hard with the minister whom he has openly accused of "purging" the Civil Guard while "rewarding" the ETA members. "The position is very great," said his spokesman. "Resign, you have no other way out."

Joan Baldoví, from Compromís, has come to the defense of the minister because, in his opinion, Colonel Pérez de los Cobos, should have been fired long before for being "a black chickpea" that allows the preparation of "false" reports by his subordinates.

JxCAT has also assured that there are multiple reasons to reprove Grande-Marlaska, many of them coinciding with those that Bildu has shelled, and to which he has added alleged police abuses against those who broke the rules of the pandemic. However, JxCAT will abstain in the vote because, even considering that Marlaska is deserving of the disapproval, in no case will he support it for the reasons explained by the PP. JxCAT has even accused Colonel Pérez de los Cobos of having participated in the coup of 23-F.

The same position has been held by the ERC deputy. The Republicans also believe that Marlaska is not worthy of the position he occupies, but they will not support the PP's proposal because given the choice of an enemy, Colonel Pérez de los Cobos is a greater part for them.

It is also for United We Can, a force that has preferred to attack directly the command of the Civil Guard ceased. Rafael Mayoral has repeated the argument of nationalists and pro-independence activists, assuring that Marlaska in any case should be reproved for not having stopped Pérez de los Cobos before. Mayoral has even accused the PP and Vox of being "a threat to democracy" and of wanting to "outlaw" half of the House parties.

On the part of the PSOE, Felipe Sicilia, has attacked the PP for his lack of "modesty and shame". The socialist deputy has accused the popular of interfering not only in the Police and the Civil Guard, but also in Justice. Sicilia has insisted that the dismissal of Pérez de los Cobos is a "relay for loss of confidence" and has compared it with dismissals carried out in the Security Forces by former PP Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz, whom they consider to be the architect of the so-called "patriotic police" to cover up the corruption of the popular.

The dismissal of Colonel Pérez de los Cobos was announced on May 25 and was followed by the resignation, a day later, of the deputy director of operations (DAO) of the Civil Guard, Lieutenant General Laurentino Ceña, thus advancing his release in the highest post of the Armed Institute that was scheduled for June 2.

Twenty-four hours later, the other lieutenant general in charge of the Corps' operational questions, Fernando Santafé, Operations Command, and one of the two persons responsible - the other was the head of the Zone in Madrid, José Antonio Berrocal - was released. she preceded the director of the Civil Guard, María Gámez, in the calls to Pérez de los Cobos in the afternoon-evening of Sunday, January 24, when he was dismissed at his proposal by the Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez.

The magistrate who commissioned the Judicial Police of the Armed Institute in Madrid ordered the provisional filing of the case on June 12 after questioning the only accused, the Government delegate in Madrid, José Manuel Franco. Judge Carmen Rodríguez-Medel had warned in writing that the investigators only had to report on the proceedings before her.

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