The PP considers Marlaska amortized and already points to Sánchez, who maintains his support for the minister

Time is up for the Home Secretary.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
10 November 2022 Thursday 05:32
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The PP considers Marlaska amortized and already points to Sánchez, who maintains his support for the minister

Time is up for the Home Secretary. The PP no longer gives him any margin, after waiting for a week for the urgent appearance of Fernando Grande Marlaska in Congress, which the popular asked for as soon as the BBC documentary was known with new revelations about what happened at the Melilla fence in July.

The minister, since then, they emphasize in the PP, limits himself to saying that he will appear if the groups request it, but a week later he has not done so, and he has not delivered to Congress the images of what happened on the fence, as they have asked several groups, the prosecution and the Ombudsman.

So the PP no longer addresses Marlaska, it increases the pressure and places it on the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, "that something must know about what happened," said the PP general secretary and spokesperson for the Popular Group in Congress , Cuca Gamarra, since it was he who said when the events occurred that the situation had been resolved satisfactorily.

The number two of the PP gave voice today to what had already been stated from the PP leadership, but that the popular leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has not managed to verbalize, not even yesterday, when he only pointed out that the minister had a responsibility . Gamarra requested this morning "the resignation of the minister, for lying about what happened and for hiding the images", and if he does not do so, and there is no time left, the PP summons Sánchez to dismiss him and be the one who relevant explanations.

In fact, according to Gamarra, the PP will request the appearance of the President of the Government in Congress, so that he reports what the minister has not wanted to explain, what really happened at the Melilla fence in July. "The government cannot look the other way as if nothing was happening," said Gamarra, who stressed that "no one doubts that the minister has lied and is hiding information."

For the general secretary of the PP, "Marlaska cannot be Minister of the Interior for a minute, when he has lied to the Spanish and when he hides information so that they do not know what really happened" at the Melilla fence. For the PP, the events that occurred in July “are extremely serious” and that is why they want to ask Sánchez “if he is not going to stop him and if he is going to allow the Interior Minister, who lied in Congress, to continue without giving explanations and hide from the Spaniards what happened.” However, for the moment, the PP has not ruled on the need to create an investigation commission. He insists that “the minister has no other way out than resignation or dismissal.

But it does not seem that the President of the Government is going to pay attention to the PP, and he has no intention of dismissing the Minister of the Interior, whose dismissal is not only requested by the PP, but also by the partners of the Government, since Marlaska has always been one of Sánchez's ministers who have drawn criticism from United We Can, ERC and Bildu.

The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, was in charge of conveying Pedro Sánchez's intentions. According to the minister, the President of the Government "maintains all the support for the Minister of the Interior".

In addition, Bolaños defended the actions and attitude of the Government in this crisis. According to the Minister of the Presidency, the Government moves in this tragedy with total and maximum transparency, and assured that contrary to what the Prosecutor's Office says, the Government "has given all the information and documentation that it has" to the Public Prosecutor's Office .

Bolaños wanted to make it clear that the Government “is committed to defending human rights and collaborating with the institutions that are investigating the events.

On the other hand, the Minister of Finance and Deputy Secretary of the PSOE, María Jesús Montero, has rejected the request of her investiture partners to create an investigative commission in Congress to clarify the facts because she considers that "it is not necessary" since The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, insisted the minister "explained in his day".