What was not achieved with a legal reform, has been achieved by the Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, in his first important appointments in the fiscal dome. His predecessor in office, Dolores Delgado, will be promoted to highest category of the tax career when proposed to occupy the position of chief prosecutor of the Togada (military) Chamber of the supreme court, but it does so without the support of the Fiscal Council.
Delgado appeared at the call to fill this position along with 19 other applicants, and the matter was discussed this Thursday in a marathon session in which Delgado obtained only 4 votes from his colleagues compared to the 6 obtained by Luis Rueda, a candidate with experience in military matters. Among the unborn members of the body there are five members of the majority Association of Prosecutors, two from the Progressive Union to which the former attorney general belonged, and one from the Professional and Independent Association of Prosecutors (APIF).
Until Delgado’s interest in the Robed Prosecutor’s Office became known, it was speculated that his resignation from the position for health reasons last July would continue in the yet-to-be-created headquarters of Democratic Memory or the one that will be dedicated in a specialized way to the hate crimes. He even ventured that he might drop out to practice in a private office.
The future of the former Minister of Justice and former Attorney General, with a place in the National High Court, was already the subject of controversy several months ago. Last June, the lack of parliamentary support forced the PSOE to withdraw the amendment it introduced last April in a law in the process of being reformed, the Bankruptcy, and which intended to secure a place for Delgado automatically in the top flight career when she was dismissed from her post. This raised strong criticism from the opposition and even from the government’s minority partner, United We Can, and several parliamentary allies.
They applied for this position Maria Belen Suarez -who also presented his candidacy for Anticorruption-, in addition to the prosecutor of the ‘Púnica’ case Teresa Galvez; the NA prosecutor charles bautista; and the already prosecutors of the Supreme Manuel Campos, Peter Campoy, Raphael Escobar, Alvaro Round, Alvaro Jose Garcia, Francisco Javier Munoz, Louis Ferdinand Rey Anthony Paul Rivers, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Olga Sanchez, Maria Angeles Montes Y Maria Isabel of the Caves.
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The Fiscal Council discussed the provision of other positions in the fiscal dome, among them the head of the fiscal inspection, a key position in the career, as well as that of Lieutenant prosecutor of the National High Court. In this case, García Ortiz will propose the designation of Martha Duringz, who was one of his collaborators in the Technical Office of the Attorney General’s Office in front of the current spokesman for the Public Ministry in said body, Miguel Ángel Carballo. “Cacicada is confirmed”, Sources from Carballo’s environment told this newspaper that they regret that the experienced prosecutor has lost to a colleague without a track record in the National Court.
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With 25 years of experience -in Anti-corruption since 1995-, the Madrilenian Luzón was part of the team that analyzed the possible irregular conduct of King Emeritus Juan Carlos I -some proceedings that ended up in the file-. He was also the prosecutor of the ‘Bankia case’, among whose pieces was the one that judged those implicated by the use of ‘black’ cardsas well as the trial against the director general of the Civil Guard Louis Roldan.