Grande-Marlaska, a disaster for Spanish politics.

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)