The new Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, has proposed to the Government that his predecessor in office, Dolores Delgado, be promoted to the highest category of the career.

According to tax sources, García Ortiz supported this Thursday the appointment of the former Minister of Justice with Pedro Sánchez for the position of prosecutor of the Sala togada -military- of the Supreme Court.

At the meeting of the Fiscal Council, the six members of the Association of Prosecutors, who have supported the prosecutor Luis Rueda, have voted against Delgado's promotion.

The two elected representatives of the Progressive Union of Prosecutors (UPF), their former association, have done so in favor.

The member of the Professional and Independent Association of Prosecutors, Salvador Viada, abstained when his wife attended the same plaza.

To the two favorable votes of UPF were added the two corresponding to the ex officio members of the Council (Lieutenant Prosecutor of the Supreme Court and Chief Inspector Prosecutor).

In this way, Delgado will be promoted two months after having resigned as head of the Public Ministry for health reasons.

Without that promotion, her position would have returned to being that of prosecutor of the National High Court, since the Government had to abandon its plans for her to be promoted automatically when leaving the Attorney General's Office.

Podemos did not support the legal reform that should make this possible.

Last April, the former minister underwent an emergency back operation from which she had trouble recovering.

That, together with the great wear suffered by her management at the head of the Prosecutor's Office, made her decide to step down from the position.

She gave the witness to her most trusted man, Álvaro García Ortiz, whom Delgado had promoted to the highest category.

Now it is he who promotes her predecessor as a court prosecutor.

Both García Ortiz and Delgado belong to the Progressive Union of Prosecutors, which greatly benefited from the appointments made during Delgado's time.

And at the moment also in García Ortiz's, and not only because of the rise of his predecessor.

The attorney general has gone against the majority of the Council to replace who until now was number two in the National Court, the lieutenant prosecutor Miguel Ángel Carballo.

Instead of the usual ratification in the post for a second term, García Ortiz has proposed the prosecutor Marta Durántez.

This is a person of the highest confidence of the attorney general with whom he coincided for years in Galicia and with whom he shares membership of UPF.

Carballo obtained seven supports against the four of Durántez, but the opinion of the Council does not bind the attorney general.

The seven members of the majority Association of Prosecutors highlighted the good work of Carballo and the enormous difference in curriculum between the two candidates.

Durántez has no experience in the Hearing - he is a specialist in occupational accidents -, where Carballo has been 17 years, the last five as number two.

The Fiscal Council also agreed to renew the post for another five years to the chief prosecutor of Anticorruption, Alejandro Luzón.

In addition to the support of the attorney general, he has had 10 of the 11 votes.

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