Fernando Grande-Marlaska
was once a judge on Spain’s Audiencia
Nacional, a very important national court that hears cases involving
terrorism, drug-smuggling, money-laundering and other serious crime. In 2017 he
fancied a career change and saw his future in politics. His attempt to become
the state prosecutor in Rajoy’s PP government failed, though he made the short
list, so he turned his attention to PSOE. Pedro Sánchez was pleased to make him
Interior Minister.
Salvador Illa is a
philosopher who was Spain’s Health Minister until the other day. Now Sánchez
has sent him to Catalonia to head up the Catalan socialists’ campaign for the
forthcoming Catalan parliamentary elections.
Such is Grande-Marlaska’s
new-found socialist zeal, matched only by his scorn for democratic process,
that last year he sacked a Guardia civil colonel who was investigating the
government’s decision to actively promote a feminist demonstration in Madrid in
8 March last year, in direct contravention of warnings from the WHO and EU that
mass gatherings should be avoided. Now he has used his official ministry Twitter
account to send a party-political message of support for Illa in a tweet that was plagued with basic spelling mistakes.
My recognition and thanks to Salvador Illa for his courage and tireless work against COVID and for his serene talent for dialogue.
With my best wishes |
Such it seems is
the level of political sensibility and of basic education among the bigwigs of Spain’s
judiciary.
Source
El Independiente
Marlaska,
el juez que quiso ser fiscal general con el PP y acabó de ministro con el PSOE
(Marlaska, the judge who wanted to be state prosecutor with the PP and ended up
as a minister with PSOE)
