Madrid (EFE).- The Prosecutor’s Council, chaired by the attorney general, Álvaro García Ortiz, meets this Thursday to study who will occupy the new positions of prosecutor of the Chamber against hate crimes and of prosecutor of the Democratic Memory Chamber, position to which his predecessor in the Attorney General’s Office, Dolores Delgado, aspires.
Despite the fact that García Ortiz, who is ultimately responsible for the decision, will not make his proposal until the meeting, many in the race assume that the chosen one will be Delgado, according to sources consulted by EFE.
Members of the Fiscal Council, the advisory body of the attorney general and in which the conservative Association of Prosecutors has a majority, have spoken out against this option and the decision of García Ortiz to bring forward this meeting, originally scheduled for 19 June, once the general elections have been called.
The attorney general has argued that he does so to prevent the appointments from coinciding in the middle of the electoral campaign and has given an example of a similar situation when he is in charge of the Attorney General Consuelo Madrigal.
Equalization that has been described as “incomparable” and “adjustment of scores” by the Association of Prosecutors, which in a statement has therefore called for the resignation of García Ortiz, in addition to his “crude maneuver” to promote Delgado to that new Prosecutor’s Office, created by virtue of the law that gives it its name.
They also consider that the appointment responds to a favor to her predecessor in office for having proposed him as her successor after her resignation for health reasons, after which, not without controversy either, she managed to climb the career ladder and be appointed Prosecutor of the Chamber, specifically Chief Prosecutor of the Chamber of the Robed Prosecutor of the Supreme Court.
Another alleged reason to oppose this appointment is the sentimental relationship that Delgado maintains with Baltasar Garzón.
“Conflict of interests”
One of the members of the Fiscal Council, Salvador Viada, president of the Professional and Independent Association of Prosecutors (APIF), has sent a letter to the attorney general in which he warns that the legal activities of the former judge, from his law firm (ILOCAD) and its Foundation (FIBGAR), could suppose a “conflict of interest” with the position to which your partner aspires.
As soon as it was called, García Ortiz placed the advance of the meeting in the “absolute normality”, since the process for the appointments had already begun and the candidacies had been presented, for which reason it was “forced” to finish the process “with all the guarantees.
Delgado is disputed by three other prosecutors: Juan Calparsoro, currently in the Guipúzcoa Prosecutor’s Office; Luis Ibáñez, in Anti-drug; and Carlos Castresana, in the Court of Accounts.
Calparsoro has also presented himself to lead the Prosecutor’s Office against hate crimes, a position that prosecutors Antonio Mateos also aspires to, now in the Badajoz Prosecutor’s Office; María del Pilar Rodríguez, in Madrid; and Miguel Ángel Aguilar, in Barcelona.
In addition to these, the Fiscal Council, whose opinion is advisory and non-binding, will also decide on the provision of a post for Anti-Drug Prosecutor, for Senior Prosecutor for Navarra and the Balearic Islands, and for Provincial Chief Prosecutor for Guadalajara, Valladolid and Pontevedra. and that of prosecutor lieutenant of Catalonia.