Today, a year later, Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska is digging even deeper into the feeling that there is no one to lead Benemérita, during the re-fishing Mercedes González to fill the same position he gave up last year to run on an electoral list.
González will be reappointed this Tuesday as director of the Civil Guard in the Council of Ministers. Once again, on the proposal of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska. This Monday, she gave up her role as deputy, as EL ESPAÑOL was able to confirm.
He will succeed Leonardo Marcos, who has been in charge of the Civil Guard for just over a year and has presented his resignation for personal reasons, According to sources from the Interior, they emphasize Efe.
Mercedes Gonzalez closed the shortest term of the body in a democracy, He resigned in June 2023, just two months after taking office.
This is the sixth person to head the Armed Institute in six years. No one remembers a time like this. Concern and unrest have spread within the Civil Guard. First, due to the corruption cases that have affected various members of the management and that are still under investigation.
Second, the insecurity experienced by many agents in cases such as the tragedy of Barbate, where two agents were murdered by a gang of drug traffickers.
Many do not hesitate to say that the Civil Guard is currently experiencing its worst situation since the Luis Roldán scandals in the early 90s.
Instability
According to numerous sources consulted by EL ESPAÑOL, Mercedes González, during her two months in office in 2023, died “without pain or glory and without lifting a finger.” Within the Civil Guard, they carried out “a total modification” five years of controversy at all levels.
The defenestration of the colonels Manuel Sánchez Corbí and Diego Pérez de los Cobos for “lack of confidence” (the latter corrected by the Supreme Court). The refusal to promote them to the rank of general. The resignation of the DAO of Civil Guard Laurentino Ceña in 2020 by refusing to fire De los Cobos. The management of migration crisis in Melilla last June…
The scandals of the commanders involved in the irregular allocation of Barracks affair. General imprisoned in C plotas well as Mediator. A commander and a second lieutenant implicated and detained in the Koldo case. The accusation of María Gámez’s husband (the director before Mercedes González) in a play derived from ERE and his subsequent resignation…
These are just the most notorious problems that have led Benemérita to the current situation of instability, the worst sequence in its recent history.
