The Government will propose the prosecutor of the Supreme Court Chamber Teresa Peramato as attorney general of the State to replace Álvaro García Ortiz. He is a career prosecutor with 35 years of practice. In January of this year she was appointed prosecutor of the Chief Chamber of the Criminal Section of the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office. Previously, she had been a prosecutor in the Violence Against Women Chamber since 2021. Sources from the Ministry of Justice explain that Peramato “has extensive experience, especially in the fight against gender violence” and “is considered one of the great promoters of judicial specialization in this matter.”
He will assume the position to replace García Ortiz, who resigned from the position after the Supreme Court ruling that sentenced him to two years of disqualification, a fine of 7,200 euros and to compensate Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner with 10,000 euros for the leak of confidential information about her tax fraud. Peramato was president of the Progressive Union of Prosecutors (UPF), to which her three predecessors in office also belonged, and who celebrated her appointment for her “exemplary dedication, a firm ethical commitment and a constant defense of the dignity of those who most need protection.” The Council of Ministers this Tuesday will begin the process for his appointment at the proposal of the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts.
Graduated in Law from the University of Salamanca, she entered the prosecutor’s career in 1990. After passing through various Prosecutor’s Offices (Tenerife, Valladolid and Barcelona), she moved to the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Madrid, where she was appointed deputy prosecutor for the Violence Against Women Section in May 2005. In 2010 she was appointed Prosecutor Attached to the prosecutor of the Chamber against Violence against Women and in In 2018 she became a prosecutor attached to the Prosecutor’s Office before the Constitutional Court.
She is the fourth highest representative of the Public Ministry appointed by the Government of Pedro Sánchez. The socialist Executive placed María José Segarra at the head of the Prosecutor’s Office between 2018 and 2020. Then it placed Dolores Delgado (2020-2022) and, finally, García Ortiz (2022-2025). She will be the fourth woman to reach this position. Precisely, the outgoing attorney general was Peramato’s godfather at his inauguration before the Supreme Court along with María Ángeles Sánchez Conde, lieutenant prosecutor of that court and interim attorney general after the resignation of García Ortiz.
Before his final appointment, the General Council of the Judiciary must issue a non-binding report. Subsequently, he will appear before the Justice Commission of the Congress of Deputies. When these procedures have been carried out, the Government will agree to his definitive appointment as State Attorney General.
The Executive announced last week that it had launched the process to appoint a new attorney general. The objective was to activate the substitution quickly to give an image of absolute institutional normality. In any case, until Peramato takes office, responsibility continues to fall on an interim basis to the ‘number two’ of the Public Ministry: María Ángeles Sánchez Conde. She is the lieutenant prosecutor of the Supreme Court who has defended García Ortiz’s innocence in this case.
The majority association asks to “recover the image” of the Prosecutor’s Office
The Association of Prosecutors (AF), the majority in the prosecutorial race, has celebrated the “essential replacement” of Álvaro García Ortiz as attorney general of the State, while asking his successor to work to “recover the image” of “impartiality” of the institution. The Progressive Union of Prosecutors, to which Peramato belongs, has applauded his appointment at a “delicate moment” for the prosecutorial career that requires the “preservation of public trust.” “Teresa Peramato outstandingly embodies the best virtues of this career to be a magnificent attorney general of the State,” they say in a statement in which they also highlight her “proven technical solvency and a career marked by professional rigor, institutional sense and the defense of fundamental rights.”
“Their work has been decisive in the construction of a specialized and sensitive model in the face of one of the most serious violations of human rights in our society,” says the UPF. “As a Chamber Prosecutor against Violence against Women and, more recently, as a Deputy Chamber Prosecutor for the Protection of Victims, she has demonstrated exemplary dedication, a firm ethical commitment and a constant defense of the dignity of those who most need protection.”
Source: www.eldiario.es
