The Council of Ministers will appoint this Tuesday, on the proposal of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, as New Director General of the Civil Guard to Mercedes Gonzálezwho has already been at the head of the body for two months in 2023, was a government delegate in Madrid and yesterday left her deputy file.
González will succeed Leonardo Marcos, who had been director general of the Civil Guard for just over a year and who resigned for personal reasons. Last Thursday, Marcos informed the minister of his decision and his intention to return to the Superior Corps of Civil Administrators of the State. This is the fourth relief at the head of the body in a year and a half, Well, on March 22, 2023, María Gámez, the first woman to lead the Civil Guard, resigned after learning of the judicial investigation against her husband regarding alleged irregularities in the decisions of the Junta de Andalucía.
It is precisely her successor, Mercedes González, who returns to Guzmán el Bueno Street to once again lead the Armed Institute after completing a first term, the shortest of the body in a democracy. González resigned in June 2023, just two months after taking office after learning who was candidate number ten on the PSOE list to Congress in the July 23, 2023 general elections.
Mercedes González, a 49-year-old from Madrid with a degree in journalism, She has been a government delegate in Madrid since March 2021. until her appointment as director of the Civil Guard in March 2023. She was also a city councilor of Madrid between 2025 and 2021 and her name was widely heard as a PSOE candidate for mayor of the capital, but the party ultimately opted for the Minister of Industry, Reyes Maroto.
