• Courts The Supreme Court annuls the dismissal of Colonel Pérez de los Cobos ordered by Minister Marlaska
  • Interior Marlaska dodges his responsibility in the 'Barracks case' and blames the PP

The Popular Party and Citizens have demanded the President of the Government the "immediate and fulminant dismissal" of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, after having learned of the Supreme Court ruling that declares "illegal" the cessation of Civil Guard Colonel Diego Pérez de los Cobos.

The popular spokesperson in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, has given voice to this petition stating that the necessary compensation to the colonel inevitably goes through the dismissal of who promoted his "illegal" dismissal, that is, the Minister of the Interior.

"Marlaska should not be a minister tomorrow after this sentence. The political use of dismissals means a way of understanding the exercise of politics that is not admissible in a democracy like ours," said Gamarra for whom "there is no more than the fulminant dismissal of the minister or his resignation if he has a little dignity."

The spokesperson of the popular has added that if this cessation does not occur, the PP "will undertake parliamentary actions so that Grande-Marlaska is reprobated again by Congress." The Minister of the Interior has already been the subject of a reprobation by the Chamber for the events of the fence of Melilla that resulted in the death of several dozen immigrants trying to enter Spanish territory. Despite this, "Pedro Sánchez protects him," added Gamarra.

Colonel Pérez de los Cobos was dismissed as head of the Civil Guard Command of Madrid after refusing to inform the Government of the investigations that, by court order, he was carrying out on the demonstration of 8-M of 2020, six days before the Executive decreed the state of alarm and the confinement of the population to try to curb the Covid pandemic.

Ciudadanos has also referred to this issue. The oranges have welcomed the sentence with "joy" and have joined the request for the resignation of Fernando Grande-Marlaska for having demonstrated once again his "negligence and arbitrariness".

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  • Citizenry
  • PP
  • Fernando Grande-Marlaska
  • Supreme Court
  • Cuca Gamarra
  • Melilla
  • Pedro Sanchez
  • Coronavirus