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The future state attorney general, Dolores Delgado, responded last Thursday at the Congress of Deputies, when the opposition accused her of being contaminated to know certain judicial processes such as those affecting the Catalan independence challenge, which "will be seen on a case-by-case basis. if the attorney general must abstain. "

Article 28 of the Organic Statute of the Public Prosecutor's Office states that "the members of the Public Prosecutor's Office will refrain from some of the causes of abstention established for the judges and magistrates in the LOPJ, as soon as they are applicable. The parties involved in the aforementioned lawsuits or causes may go to the hierarchical superior of the prosecutor in question in the interest that, in the aforementioned cases, their non-intervention is ordered in the process "and specifies that" in the case of the State Attorney General, the Board of Public Prosecutors will decide " .

Faced with Delgado's speech in his intervention in the Lower House, various tax sources consider that both in the process and in the causes that affect the different political parties, the abstention of the former minister and former socialist deputy is "forced".

And who has the last word on these matters if the attorney general departs from them? His replacement would be assumed by the lieutenant fiscal of the Supreme Court, number one of the fiscal career and born member of the Fiscal Council. It is the circumstance that the mandate of the current lieutenant prosecutor of the High Court, Luis Navajas , expired last December, so Delgado would have in his hand to relieve him to place a person of his trust.

According to tax sources to EL MUNDO, Navajas, who is due to retire later this year, plans to make his position available to the new prosecutor, who must then decide whether or not to count on him.

Ángeles Sánchez, from Conde-Pumpido

The sources consulted explain that the name that sounds the strongest to occupy the position of fiscal lieutenant of the Supreme - either imminently or after the retirement of Navajas - is the current chief prosecutor of the Constitutional Court, Ángeles Sánchez , who came to said Charge of the former attorney general Cándido Conde-Pumpido .

Member of the Progressive Union of Prosecutors ( UPF ), she is a Prosecutor of the Chamber of progressive ideas, with weight in the career, in which Delgado could leave the final decision of sensitive matters where the attorney general cannot intervene, such as that affect 1-O.

With her appointment, the former Minister of Justice would also fulfill one of the promises she made in the Congressional Justice Commission: to develop an action program for women to reach the dome of the Public Ministry.

Along with the appointment of the Supreme Lieutenant Fiscal, the role of the Chief Prosecutor of the Technical Secretariat will be key in the new mandate. It is the advisory board of the general prosecutor, a sort of bodyguard of the head of the Public Ministry, to which the attorney general comes before adopting any position on the most sensitive issues that go through your table.

That position is currently occupied by prosecutor Fernando Rodríguez Rey , whom former attorney general María José Segarra appointed his right hand. In addition, the head of the Technique acquires the appointment of the Sala prosecutor category.

Álvaro García, the prosecutor of the 'Prestige case'

According to the different sources consulted, it is also likely that the former Socialist deputy decides to make changes in the Technical Secretariat, sounding hard to take up that position the name of prosecutor Álvaro García . Delgado's personal friend, he was a spokesman for the Progressive Prosecutor's Union, an association to which the attorney general belongs, and shared with her chair in the current Fiscal Council. Environmental Prosecutor in Galicia, García was the prosecutor in charge of the trial for the environmental disaster caused by the Prestige oil tanker.

In addition, in the environment of the attorney general they also bet that the former deputy will appoint for some of the positions of maximum trust to Esmeralda Rasillo , her former director general of Relations with the Administration of Justice, previously assigned to the Fiscal Inspection and that now It has been attached to the Prosecutor's Office of the Community of Madrid after its passage through politics.

Precisely, the position of the chief inspector prosecutor now occupied by Fausto Cartagena is one of the 50 discretionary positions that Delgado must designate. In addition, the tax inspector is a born member of the Fiscal Council.

Other appointments

In total, the former socialist leader must appoint, as a cause of the political blockade, seven prosecutors from Sala - the highest category within the Public Prosecutor's Office - three prosecutors from the High Court, the prosecutor of the Court of Auditors , the Lieutenant Prosecutor for Anti - Corruption , the superior prosecutors of Galicia and Aragon , and the lieutenant prosecutors of the Balearic Islands , Andalusia , La Rioja and Valencia .

It must also cover the headquarters of the Provincial Prosecutors of Ávila , Teruel , Tenerife , Alicante , Orense , Badajoz , Córdoba , Segovia and Soria . In appointments policy, Dolores Delgado will have hands free.

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