The president of the En Comú Podem parliamentary group, Jéssica Albiach, believes that Fernando Grande-Marlaska would have to resign as Interior Minister due to the tragedy of the Melilla fence on June 24. In statements to La 2 and Ràdio 4, Albiach, who has remarked that this is her personal position, has criticized the explanations of Marlaska, who yesterday again assured that there were no deaths in Spanish territory. "He's going against the evidence," she exclaimed. The leader of the commons also considers that it is "inconsistent" to appoint Juan Carlos Campo as magistrate of the TC at the same time that Victoria Rosell is "vetoed".
"It would be more honest for the minister to come out and say that it was done wrong," said Albiach, who has accused Marlaska of lying. "The videos and the facts are there," he insisted. The president of En Comú Podem al Parlament de Catalunya considers that she cannot "put herself in profile" and for this reason she has stated that the head of the Interior would have to resign.
“I am getting into a garden”, the deputy acknowledged, aware that her party has not shown an official position on the matter and that her words were going to “make many people uncomfortable”. Likewise, she has stressed that she feels "far removed" from the PSOE's immigration policy: "There are no first and second class citizens."
Albiach has also criticized the "contrasense" of appointing former Justice Minister Juan Carlos Campo as a magistrate of the Constitutional Court, when a few days ago the PSOE "vetoed" Victoria Rosell, affiliated with Unidas Podemos, to enter the General Council of the Judiciary. The leader of En Comú Podem has also pointed out that the election of Campo and Laura Díez "was not a shared decision of the entire Government".
Apart from Fernando Grande-Marlaska, there is another minister -Irene Montero- who is being criticized, in this case launched mainly from the right and the extreme right. The head of Equality yesterday accused the Popular Party of "promoting the culture of rape." In this sense, Jéssica Albiach believes that Montero's statement is "objective", because she refers to advertising campaigns that the training has carried out in Galicia and Madrid that "do not focus on the aggressor". The Parliamentary deputy recalled that it is an "academic" concept used by the UN and believes that she misinterpreted herself due to ignorance of the term.
In relation to the last tense debates in Congress, for Albiach a "worrying climate" is setting in and he has fired against the "strategy of dehumanization of the adversary" that has gained strength, as he has said, with the entry of the extreme right into the camera.
Beyond the parliamentary brawls, and despite the differences that PSOE and Podemos have had in recent days, Jéssica Albiach has been satisfied with the "good work" of the Government. She has demanded, yes, "stepping on the accelerator" in the last stretch of the legislature with laws such as housing. Regarding the divergences between the coalition partners, the leader of the commons has limited it to the normality of being from two different parties. "The problem comes when discrepancies block you," she stressed.
