In full debate on the cessation of the colonel of the Civil Guard Diego Pérez de los Cobos after the sentence of the Supreme Court that considers them "illegal" to the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, a new front can be opened with the "political blockade" suffered by the Law of Coordination of the Services of Prevention, Extinction of Fires and Rescue (SPEIS) and that establishes a legal framework for the Fire Departments of the Spanish territory

Because they are on their way to 30 months that the bill has been stopped after its approval with a large majority of 203 votes in favor and a 14-month amendment process that was closed in December 2021. "We have exhausted the institutional route and our willingness to dialogue and ability to reach agreements has ended," said Israel Naveso, president of the Unitary Coordinator of Firefighters, which includes 21,000 professionals from airport, regional and local bodies.

And before the end of this line of dialogue without a solution, what the firefighters propose is the mobilization in the street "before the summer" as a method of protest for the "unfavorable treatment" that they understand they are suffering with respect to other state estates. The example they give is that the Law Regulating the Bases of Local Regime, of 1985, gave itself a year to approve the Statute of the Firefighter and the Police. The latter was done, 38 years later firefighters do not have it.

But the main conflict is now in the law stopped by the Ministry of the Interior and that the members of the Coordinator attribute to the fact that the Government is using the processing as a "bargaining chip" with the Catalan and Basque nationalists for the approval of the General State Budget. Because these parties oppose the text that has been promoted above all by Podemos by pretending to maintain a model like the Catalan one, based on the figure of the volunteer firefighter. "The consequence is that they take away our competences and prevent us from carrying out our work with guarantees. They oppose what their own workers are demanding of them for their own legal security," Naveso told reporters.

And all the controversy occurs with the first forest fires making an appearance, as in Castellón or Asturias in recent days, but also with a "less mediatic" increase in fires in factories or homes. "It is costing us lives and hundreds of millions of euros," they have influenced from the Coordinator that was formed nine years ago, in January 2014, still with a PP Government, to carry out its regulatory framework that is still slowed. "Ithas coincided with a time of elections every two years that has been making the proposals decline." And when it seemed that it could get ahead, the blockade.

Because the professionals have come to meet for six hours with the political representatives of the Parliament of Catalonia, since Esquerra Republicana is one of the parties that shows the greatest opposition. "Everything was reduced to nationalist sentiment, to which Madrid centralizes, without justifying anything else," said Naveso who has also focused especially on volunteer firefighters or low cost, a model extended in Catalonia and, above all, Castilla y León, where it is usually only necessary that they sign up in a job bank in the City Councils.

"A very hard summer is presented for all fire services, we have reached where we have come, but we have the option to mobilize quickly, before the summer," warned the members of the body present at an informative breakfast in Madrid where the case of airport firefighters has also been discussed, which since the entry of private capital in Aena denounce that "345 million people depend on a stock market listing" of The company

"The firefighters have been succumbing to the stock market rights and have cut our endowments," said Ruyman Capote, a member of the Coordinator, who has assured that the templates have been reduced to "the minimums set by law." In Madrid Barajas or El Prat, considered category 10 aerodromes, the number of professionals is seven per shift and in others such as Tenerife South, category 9, there are six.

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