BREAKING: “The booing of Marlaska proves that the Huelva drama has broken the camel’s back”
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“The tragedy in Huelva has been the straw that broke the camel’s back.” The two main representative entities of the more than 90,000 agents of the Civil Guard have raised their voices in the face of the situation and the consequences experienced this week. With that phrase, the Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC), the majority in the force, interprets the whistles that this Wednesday cut off Fernando Grande-Marlaska’s speech at a flag oath in Baeza, in the province of Jaén. The minister was interrupted just when he said he was “hurt and angry” over the death of two agents who died while chasing a drug boat in waters near the Huelva coast last Friday. JUCIL, the second entity with the largest representation in the Council of the Armed Institute, also considers that the whistle should not be interpreted as an isolated event, “but as the direct consequence of the growing unrest among thousands of civil guards and national police.” “When commitments are not fulfilled for years.” acquired with the State Security Forces and Corps, recognition as a risky profession is blocked, a real and complete salary equalization remains pending and a dignified retirement continues to be denied, the disconnection between politics and the reality of the agents ends up being inevitable,” they point out to EL ESPAÑOL. “The civil guards have been listening to promises for too long that never materialize.” “The whistles pass. The unrest remains as long as the real problems are not solved,” they continue. “I understand and understand your pain, your anger. Nothing can compensate for the death in the line of duty of Germán and Jerónimo,” said the minister during the event this Wednesday. Marlaska, booed in Jaén at a flag oath by civil guards. At that moment, the patio was filled with whistles. It was up to eight seconds, which led the organization to call over the public address system to “maintain respect and due composure, for the institutions and the students in training.” These boos, the AUGC added in conversation with this newspaper, are not “a lack of respect”, but rather “born from pain, frustration and years of neglect towards the civil guards and their families by the Ministry of the Interior” Because “when the death of colleagues is minimized by talking about a ‘work accident’ and Those who risk their lives perceive that their warnings are ignored, the discomfort ends up emerging publicly. From JUCIL they also defend institutional respect, but remember that this “must be mutual.” And today there is a general feeling among agents of abandonment, fatigue and lack of recognition. Spanish society values and respects its Civil Guard. What is missing is for the political class to be up to the task.”On Saturday the funeral was held in Huelva for the deceased agents. Neither Marlaska nor Pedro Sánchez attended. Nor did any other Government minister, an absence that has generated unease both in the Civil Guard and within the Andalusian PSOE itself, as EL ESPAÑOL reported this Wednesday. The official explanation for the minister not attending was the health crisis caused by the hantavirus. Marlaska held a press conference at the same time on the isolated ship and, later, he traveled to Tenerife to appear with Mónica García, Ángel Víctor Torres and the director of the WHO at the Granadilla Command Post. The Secretary of State for the Interior and the general director of the Civil Guard attended, and it was not realized that this representation was insufficient. And even more so in the electoral campaign in Andalusia. The Andalusian socialist candidate, María Jesús Montero, did attend the funeral, who was received with boos. “Accident. “Two days later, the controversy over the tragedy of the civil guards increased when Montero defined in an electoral debate the death of the agents as a “work accident”, an expression that the PSOE later ended up qualifying – but without disavowing it – by speaking of “deaths in the line of duty”. Montero herself tried to correct the shot in a message on social networks, where she already used the formula “death in the line of duty”, but without actually apologizing or rectifying it explicitly. And, far from accept the mistake, the socialist candidate tried to distribute responsibilities for using the term “work accident”. In an interview on SER, Montero went so far as to blame her mishap directly on Antonio Maíllo, candidate for Por Andalucía. “I have no criteria to qualify anything [como accidente laboral]. As after lamenting the death I spoke of an intervention by Mr. Maíllo, I understand that someone could have associated it,” she said. That is, that, according to her, she was dragged into that area by the Andalusian leader of Izquierda Unida. For the AUGC, this half-hearted rectification is not enough. “That it is now said that the words were misinterpreted does not change the deep discomfort that they have caused among the civil guards and their families,” they allege. “The colleagues feel that they have been warning about the mistake for too long. of media, the growing risk of drug trafficking and the absence of real responses,” they lament. And, as if that were not enough, to all this accumulated unrest was added this Wednesday another reason for indignation for the Armed Institute. Congress once again put on hold the law that seeks to recognize that national police and civil guards have a risky profession. This was decided by the Table, the body that organizes and controls the procedures of the laws in the Chamber and where the left has a majority. It is the seventy-first time that PSOE and Sumar add their votes to freeze a norm promoted by the PP, and that the Senate approved almost two years ago, in June 2024. Now, the measure is paralyzed again for 15 days which, in all likelihood, will later be extended to delay its processing. The PP bill has been frozen in a drawer since the ordinary deadline for amendments ended on September 3, 2024. Since then, the Board has been successively extending the deadlines. to prevent the rule from reaching a vote in the Labor Commission. What does it mean to be a risky profession? This recognition would imply concrete changes in its conditions, such as the possibility of advancing the retirement age or greater financial compensation. The Government fears losing the vote. Socialist sources admit that some parliamentary partner could support the initiative, and that, in any case, the PSOE cannot allow itself to vote against a rule like this in the Chamber, which raises so many sensitivities.
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Source: This article was originally published by El Español – Home and adapted for our international English-speaking audience.
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