Marlaska says he maintained the ammunition contract with an Israeli company to avoid “a patrimonial damage for the State”
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has recognized this Wednesday in Congress, during his speech to explain the purchase of ammunition to an Israeli company in the middle of Gaza War, which decided to move forward with this award after concluding that its termination would mean “a patrimonial damage for the State”. When the decision was known, last April, President Pedro Sánchez ordered to “unilaterally terminate the contract by considering that the coalition with add and the image of the chief of the Executive, who has always claimed her position as one of the world’s leaders of the world closest to the Palestinians and harder with the Benjamín Netanyahu government. .
Grande-Marlaska has detailed that he met on October 29 that the company awarded two of the bullets was Israeli and then ordered “immediately to stop the processing of the file and study the best route for its termination”. The minister has detailed that “for six months” his department explored “all possible legal routes to cancel the award”, but that “none that did not imply a patrimonial damage for the State” was found. “In this process, we consulted the General State Advocacy, whose recommendation was to formalize the contract awarded,” he added.
The minister has admitted that “it has been necessary for the Government of Spain to articulate other solutions in instances outside the ministry [del Interior]”In which” other departments “participate for a termination that, at the moment,” is in process. “Merlaska has affirmed that his department is analyzing” everything that happened “to” take appropriate measures to prevent something like that can again occur. ”
Grande Marlaska has taken advantage of his first intervention to emphasize twice that he shares “Safe without the commitment of the Spanish government with the Palestinian cause and peace in the Middle East.” He has also called, in line with what President Pedro Sánchez, so that humanitarian aid, currently blocked by Israel, enters the Gaza Strip and reaches the population.
