The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, has defended the choice to dismiss the top of the Civil Guard Command in Madrid, Diego Pérez de los Cobos, even if the Supreme Court has annulled the dismissal. “The goal causes for lack of confidence stay,” mentioned the minister, who insisted on the colonel’s “lack of suitability” for the place he held.
At the second, the complete sentence of the Supreme Court has not been communicated and that’s what Marlaska clings to, who, though he’ll act “in accordance with the legislation”, needs to learn the judicial decision earlier than delving into the topic. In any case, the minister assures that he doesn’t plan to resign, because the opposition has claimed after studying of the Supreme Court’s choice.
Diego Pérez de los Cobos was fired in May 2020, for “lack of belief”. The origin was that in accordance with the Interior, he didn’t report on the judicial investigations that had been opened on José Manuel Franco, then a authorities delegate in Madrid, for the 8-M demonstrations. The investigation into the Government delegate was archived, and Diego Pérez de los Cobos continued to say in courtroom for his dismissal.
The first decide of the National Court who noticed the case -of Administrative Litigation- gave him the rationale, however he appealed and the Chamber confirmed the dismissal. Now the Supreme Court disavows it and this time sure, the choice is agency.
“A Matter of Form”
The Minister Spokesperson for the Government, Isabel Rodríguez, additionally spoke concerning the matter on the Council of Ministers press convention, the place she said that it was “a query of type and never substance”.
“We don’t but know that textual content of the sentence, however in accordance with the pronouncement within the ruling plainly it’s a matter of type and never substance”, the minister replied, who, as at all times, has adhered to “absolute respect to all judicial selections”.
Now, the colonel has to attend for the decide of the National Court Celestino Salgado to order the execution of the sentence and for Pérez de los Cobos to return to his submit.
Then, in accordance with authorized sources, the Ministry of the Interior should adjust to it inside two months. In case of not doing so, the colonel might expressly declare it earlier than the Central Court. And up to now he has proven that he’s not keen to be neglected, so it’s greater than probably that he’ll quickly return to a excessive place within the Civil Guard.
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