The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has signed the promotion of Brigadier General José Manuel Santiago Marín to Chief of Staff of the Civil Guard, as published this Friday by the Official State Gazette (BOE). Until now, General Santiago held the second position in the Armed Institute.
Civil Guard sources frame the appointment of José Manuel Santiago within the natural relays of the Armed Institute. General Santiago had already been serving as Chief of the General Staff on an interim basis since Brigadier General José Luis Arranz retired at the end of 2019. Moreover, during the months in which General Santiago managed and was the visible face of command during the alarm state, after the Low by COVID-19 of the Deputy Director of Operations Laurentino Ceña, he was already presenting himself to the general as Chief of the General Staff.
José Manuel Santiago starred in the controversy during a press conference in Moncloa due to the state of alarm at defend that they were pursuing hoaxes that affected the executive and they were directed “against the Government”, statements that he had to qualify and for which Fernando Grande-Marlaska appeared in Congress. He assured that his words about the surveillance carried out by agents on social networks they were done with “scrupulous respect” to freedom of expression and not only of the “Government”, as indicated by an internal order revealed by Cadena SER, but against “institutions of the entire State.”
In the BOE appears the order of cessation as second chief and the new one in which General Santiago is appointed chief of the General Staff of the Civil Guard, by virtue of Organic Law 2/1986, of Security Forces and Bodies, and of Law 29/2014 on the Civil Guard Personnel Regime. Today’s BOE also includes another appointment, that of Brigadier General Moisés González Sesma, who has been promoted and will serve as second Chief of Staff.
Appointment It is carried out at the proposal of the general director of the Civil Guard, María Gámez, and with the agreement of the Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez.
–
–
