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"Reproved, arbitrary and condemned. He should be resigned and then sitting on a commission of inquiry." With these words the deputy of the PP Ana Belén Vázquez has faced in Congress the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, a day after the Supreme Court ruled the illegality of the cessation of the colonel of the Civil Guard, Diego Pérez de los Cobos, and when barely a week has passed since the resignation of the director of the Civil Guard, María Gámez, the executing hand of that dismissal and whom the minister defends for his "decency and his democratic neatness."

Marlaska has maintained in parliament that, despite the judgment of the Supreme, "the objective reasons that determined the loss of confidence" in the former head of the Command of the Civil Guard of Madrid, "to exercise a position of responsibility, are maintained".

"The lack of confidence remains," he riveted, before asking the PP deputy if she would trust "people who managed reserved funds without due control" and who "allowed with them to destroy evidence so that the Popular Party could hide its responsibility. " "Would you have confidence in that type of people?, he insisted, before assuring that "in that type of people is those in which this interior minister does not have, has not had and will not have confidence."

The minister's words have come to suggest that his decision to dismiss the colonel of the Civil Guard had reasons that go beyond the investigation he was carrying out, by court order, of the decision to allow the demonstration of 8-M 2020 when Covid was already fully affecting Spain.

Reasons that go into the destruction of evidence and the use of reserved funds to protect the PP from its corruption cases.

The popular have accused Marlaska in the Plenary of the Congress of being an "arbitrary, a tyrant, big with the subordinates and small with the corrupt of the PSOE". In this way the representative of the popular alluded to the resignation of María Gámez after learning that her husband is being investigated for alleged corruption related to the ERE case and that both, in the last ten years, have acquired up to four properties for "a value of 2.5 million euros".

Deputy Vázquez has demanded Marlaska the immediate execution of the Supreme Court ruling in favor of Pérez de los Cobos. "And then," he said, "leave, because you are politically disqualified as interior minister and morally from returning to the judicial career."

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