It was a proper farewell. Sixteen pages of balance of his management first as Minister of Justice and later as State Attorney General (FGE). It happened on June 29 last on the occasion of the first meeting of the new Tax Council, advisory body of the FGE. Dolores Delgado, reincorporated from a serious surgical intervention, turned the conclave into a “welcome & rdquor” meeting; emptied of topics in your agenda.
“There are more, many more projects that will see the light of day in the coming months and that respond to one goal: to make a Professional Public Prosecutor at the service of citizens” he said.
Like a campaign politician, after putting on the medals, she pointed out: “Because you are going to allow me to say that increasing the workforce, receiving more emoluments, having more media or more public presence only has one purpose, which is to improve public service that we lend, because we are nothing more than public servants & rdquor ;. Take chestnut.
He also referred to the future: “There is more, many more projects that will see the light in the coming months and that respond to an objective: to make a professional Public Prosecutor’s Office a reality at the service of citizens & rdquor ;.
Thanks
And there was no lack of mention of who – now it is known – would be in charge of those projects. “I want to thank the technical secretariat and its chief prosecutor [Álvaro García] the activity carried out that has been an example of modernity, versatility and dedication. Professionals mostly from the territory, highly qualified, who have shown an exemplary sense of public service. Thank you colleagues and colleagues”. Well that. Dolores ‘Lola’ Delgado had designed her own departure and had agreed on the roadmap, according to sources consulted by El Periódico, with Pedro Sanchez.
In her balance of July 29, the attorney general left a gap, which on the couch of a psychoanalyst would be described as a failed act. A failed act that illuminates the outcome of her career in the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
This is her project as Minister of Justice, to establish by law that when a state attorney general leaves office, he automatically becomes a prosecutor of the Supreme Court Chamber, the highest category of the career.
But he also tried again from the State Attorney General’s Office with an amendment introduced in the Bankruptcy Law [sic] by the socialist group in the Congress of Deputies in which it was provided, through a reform of the Organic Statute of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (EOMF), that the State Attorney General “will acquire the category of prosecutor of the Supreme Court Chamber once his stop & rdquor ;. However, this second attempt failed again due to the opposition of United We Can, PP, Citizens and Vox. And the protest of the associations of public prosecutors.
It gives every impression, according to what prosecutors told El Periódico, that third time lucky. In paladin roman: that Dolores Delgado, once recovered-because she will still undergo a new back surgery– will aspire, if his health permits, to be a court prosecutor in charge of Democratic Memory Prosecutor’s Office newly created. Because it will be a prosecutor of that category who establishes the new law. Although the law has been approved, it will take several months until the square goes out to tender, in the last quarter of 2022.
planned and ordered
The planned and orderly exit from the FGE is embodied in the appointment of the person that Delgado has designated as his successor: Álvaro García.
And since so much is said about the category of Chamber prosecutor, the chief prosecutor of the technical secretariat is not number two of the FGE. Number two is the deputy prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Maria Angeles Sanchez Conde to whom Delgado proposed to leave the post of chief prosecutor of the Constitutional Court to jump to the Supreme Court. It is the lieutenant prosecutor who replaces the FGE and assumes her functions.
The appointment of Álvaro García and especially his indubitable ‘purchase’ by Pedro Sánchez and the Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, of the initiative, is an index of the power of Dolores Delgado. Because only she could propose and make her her successor “natural & rdquor ;.
The chief prosecutor of the technical secretariat, who has just been appointed State Attorney General, has been a key player in some of Delgado’s main high-voltage operations. For example? The removal of the tax Tándem-Villarejo case, Ignacio Stampa. It was García, who, without authority to do so, ordered the prosecutor of the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM), Carlos Ruiz de Alegría, to extend the false investigation against Stampa for alleged leaks of the summary of one of the popular accusations, that of United We can, in that case for almost a year to finish off the job with Stampa’s departure from the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and in this way the Tánde-Villarejo case.
Haven’t Pedro Sánchez or Pilar Llop read the description made by prosecutor Ruiz de Alegría, a prosecutor affiliated all his life with the Progressive Union of Prosecutors (UPF), that of Dolores Delgado, about the behavior of Álvaro García to put an end to Stampa ?
It was Álvaro García who used the complaints of Maria Montero and Acodapthe seal of former judge Fernando Presencia (yes, the same association that has falsely accused Delgado of collecting money in Panama) to artificially keep the file against Stampa open and thus be able to give the veneer that Delgado needed in his shameful plan to implicitly justify , in this way the rejection of the concession of the fixed position to which Stampa aspired in the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and for which he had left his skin, along with the prosecutor Miguel Serrano, in the Tándem-Villarejo case. That happened on October 27, 2020.
Precisely, Alvaro García used Acodap, who sent him an urgent letter on October 26, 2020, on the eve of the Fiscal Council, to renew his complaint, on behalf of “his affiliate María Montero & rdquor ;, and ask the Prosecutor Ruiz de Alegría -who had twice proposed the filing of the proceedings-extend bogus investigations. He used Acodap and former judge Fernando Presencia for his own purposes, sending his new complaint to the TSJM Prosecutor’s Office, which already accumulated many, and to the Chief Prosecutor of the Inspection, Fausto Cartagena.
Villarejo’s cell
And this happened -any resemblance to reality was not purely coincidental- forty-eight hours after prosecutor Stampa, leading a group of police officers, an entry and registration in the cell of Villarejo, in the Estremera prison, in which the former commissioner blurted out: “But haven’t they thrown you out yet? How scared you must have my friend Lola [Delgado, la fiscal general del Estado]”
The gratitude to Álvaro García has been deserved. Because in the Fiscal Council he came to say that he was the only one responsible for the unspeakable maneuvers committed against Stampa. But the former chief prosecutor of the TSJM, Jesús Caballero Klink, was the prosecution witness for the entire set-up. And he knew it when Dolores Delgado and Álvaro García summoned him to Madrid’s Calle de Fortuny one day in December 2020.
Delgado did not give him what he wanted, the renewal of his mandate in the TSJM, but … he compensated him with a seat in the Constitutional Court to the Spanish institution and justice”, said yesterday Santiago Viada who denounced the attacks on the prosecutor Stampa-
“The FGE candidate has been co-responsible for everything that has deserved criticism of the institution and Spanish justice and therefore participates without nuance in the failure and discredit of Dolores Delgado’s management, so his election can only be explained from indifference to the damage caused & rdquor ;, he told El Periódico.
García inherits a table in which the proposal of Appointment of Chief Anti-Corruption Prosecutor. The mandate of Alexander Luzon It expired in the middle of last June. But Luzón is sure that they will renew him for another five years.
Lola’s word
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