US EditionSpain nominates gender-based violence specialist as next chief prosecutor
Teresa Peramato, with over 35 years of experience and expertise in gender-based violence, is nominated to restore trust after her predecessor’s conviction for leaking confidential data.
- Coinciding with November 20th, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez nominated veteran prosecutor Teresa Peramato Martín as Spain's new attorney general, the Moncloa Palace confirmed.
- After a months-long probe and trial, Spain's Supreme Court found Álvaro García Ortiz, former Attorney General, guilty last week and suspended him for two years, fined him, and ordered $11,500 in damages.
- With more than 35 years of experience, Teresa Peramato Martín has led the Progressive Prosecutors' Union and served as chief criminal prosecutor at the Supreme Court Prosecutor's Office.
- The Council of Ministers began the confirmation process on Tuesday, with the Ministry of Justice requesting the formal appointment procedure and the CGPJ set to issue a non-binding opinion before the Justice Committee hearing and King Felipe VI's swearing-in.
- Prosecutors' associations say the nomination could restore credibility, with government sources saying she `has the unanimous recognition of legal professionals`; critics say it signals continuity due to Teresa Peramato Martín's ties to García Ortiz, weakening Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's coalition.
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The Spanish left-wing government proposed this Tuesday to a veteran prosecutor specializing in gender-based violence to replace the state attorney general, recently convicted of violating judicial secrecy. Álvaro García Ortiz, appointed in 2022 on the proposal of the left-wing government, resigned on Monday, after having been sentenced by the Supreme Court to two years of disqualification from holding office and a fine for leaking information fr…
The fiscal career is dislocated with mixed feelings. Some see in the conviction of Álvaro García Ortiz a kind of revenge of the Supreme Court for the progressive court of the until now state attorney general. Meanwhile, others see that since in 2020 the executive of Pedro Sánchez named as number one of the Attorney General's Office Dolores Delgado -then Minister of Justice - the image of impartiality and independence of the public prosecutor's o…
Her colleagues describe her as a prosecutor with a long and distinguished career, who has practiced her profession with integrity and is intimately familiar with the current state of the Spanish justice system. This situation is highly tense due to political interference that should never have occurred. Teresa Peramato is a Supreme Court prosecutor and belongs to the Progressive Association of Prosecutors, which raises no eyebrows. It is common …
Let's hope Peramato doesn't lend himself to doing what García Ortiz has perpetrated, no matter how much he has been appointed a general prosecutor by the same government.
The proposal as the next Attorney General of the State of Teresa Peramato has not generated too many surprises within the top tax office.
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