The appointment of Dolores Delgado as prosecutor of Democratic Memory and Human Rights continues to raise blisters within the prosecutor’s career. The latest consequence of the appointment proposal carried out yesterday by the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, against the majority of the Fiscal Council, is a string of casualties of members of the Progressive Union of Prosecutors (UPF) in the last hours.
According to tax sources reported to EL MUNDO, the prosecutor Carlos Castresana (prosecutor in the Pinochet case, he opted for the same position as Delgado), the superior prosecutor of Madrid, Almudena Lastra; the chief prosecutor of Salamanca, Juan José Pereña, and the member of the Superior Prosecutor’s Office of Madrid Lorena Álvarez.
To this list is added the prosecutor of Sala Javier Zaragoza, prosecutor of the process and former chief prosecutor of the National Court, who has left this group to which he has belonged since its foundation 38 years ago. As explained by tax sources, the Sala prosecutor resigned after the UPF “endorsed an appointment that occurred without complying with the statutory provision on the possible concurrence of incompatibility”, in reference to the refusal of the attorney general to allow the Fiscal Council to rule on the conflict of interest between Delgado and his partner, former judge Baltasar Garzón.
At present, the circumstance occurs that the Progressive Union of Prosecutors, after the mandates of Delgado and García Ortiz in the State Attorney General’s Office, has the highest level of representation in its history in the Board of Chamber Prosecutors, it is that is, in the Generalate of the Public Ministry, while an increasing number of associates have been resigning. Currently, there are barely 250 associates.
The UPF’s lack of critical spirit with the decisions adopted by Delgado and García Ortiz as Attorney Generals is what has led to a continuous decline in its membership. Previously, there were other heavyweights of the association, such as the prosecutor of the Chamber Pedro Crespo, the current director General Director of Legal Security and Public Faith of the Ministry of Justice, Sofía Puente, or the prosecutor of the National Court, Vicente González Mota, who also decided to take their leave.
However, for many members of the prosecutorial profession, the “last straw” has been the appointment of Delgado as the new prosecutor of the Chamber of Democratic Memory and Human Rights. As this newspaper has been reporting, the aesthetic and substantive reasons for considering the appointment of the former Minister of Justice inappropriate have put the Prosecutor’s Office on a war footing. Many prosecutors consider it unusual that Dolores Delgado was granted the position when there is a manifest “conflict of interest” with her partner Garzón de ella, owner of the Ilocad law firm, specialized in the matter that she will control.
In addition, there are multiple voices that consider it “intolerable” that the attorney general has promoted that “a beach bar be set up between Lola and Baltasar” within the Prosecutor’s Office and add that something like that, “this letter of marque”, would not be allowed “no one else” within the Public Prosecutor’s Office. “He has not watched over the institution and has incurred in a manifest illegality,” add the sources consulted when referring to Álvaro García Ortiz.
The “enormous damage” to the image of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, derived from the appointment of Delgado yesterday, has generated deep discomfort within the prosecutor’s office and is already having its first consequences.
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