MADRID, 4 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, will appear next Tuesday behind closed doors in Congress to report on the use of reserved funds in his department, an appearance requested in the summer and that has been called in full controversy over the deaths on the fence was Melilla last June and with the opposition and PSOE partners demanding explanations after the BBC documentary that has revived the issue.
According to the law, the Government must inform Congress every six months of reserved expenses, an appearance that is usually carried out by the three ministers who have these items (Interior, Defense and Foreign Affairs) and the head of the National Intelligence Center (CNI).
Due to crossed vetoes between parties, Congress took half a term to set up the Reserved Expenses Commission where these appearances take place, but finally created it after the Pegasus espionage controversy and thanks to lowering the necessary majorities for the independence supporters to enter.
And it was in August when the Government requested the appearances of the ministers and it has now been in November when it has been decided to advance the one in Marlaska alone for the afternoon of next Tuesday, November 8, according to what parliamentary sources assure Europa Press.
The appearance in the also known as the Secrets Commission will take place the day after the visit that deputies from the Interior Commission will make to Melilla to learn about the operations of the Civil Guard on the Spanish border.
According to parliamentary sources, the Interior offered the deputies to see in Melilla the images recorded on the border perimeter on the day of the tragedy, but the opposition has been demanding that they be shown in Congress.
United We Can and the parliamentary partners of the Government have once again registered a petition to create an investigative commission on that event, after reviving the controversy over a BBC report that questions Marlaska’s version. And this time the PP does not rule out supporting it.
From the Interior they assure that Tuesday’s appearance has nothing to do with the events in Melilla, but the opposition plans to take advantage of the appointment to demand explanations from the minister. That yes, in the appointment of Tuesday the deputies of the Commission of Interior will not be, but only the spokespersons of the groups, that were chosen by the plenary session of the Congress.
Moreover, it has not even given time for the PSOE to include its new spokesperson, Patxi López, in the commission, who came to office in July and has not yet been voted by the Plenary of Congress to be part of the also known as of secrets The socialist representative in this body continues to be his predecessor, Héctor Gómez.
