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The member of the Fiscal Council Salvador Viada has requested on Tuesday the Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, to submit to the deliberation of the body the "conflict of interest" between the prosecutor Dolores Delgado, candidate for the position of prosecutor of Human Rights and Democratic Memory, and the former judge Baltasar Garzón, sole administrator of the Ilocad office specialized in this matter, and his current romantic partner.

The representative of the Professional and Independent Association of Prosecutors (APIF) has sent a letter to García Ortiz where he warns him that the Fiscal Council has a decision-making "competence" to rule on the concurrence of incompatibilities, as established in article 58 of the Organic Statute of the Public Prosecutor's Office (EOMF).

The vocal explains that "it is at stake" to know "whether or not there is a possible conflict of interest between the candidate for the position and the legal activities of Baltasar Garzón", owner of Ilocad and head of the FIBGAR Foundation (Baltasar Garzón International Foundation), which has an object and an activity that could conflict with the functions that the law attributes to the Prosecutor's Office of the Democratic Memory Room ". Not in vain highlights that Delgado herself is a regular collaborator of the aforementioned foundation.

"This is an issue that must be resolved prior to the allocation of the position in question, which is why I request that the debate on the allocation of the position of Prosecutor of the Chamber of Democratic Memory and Human Rights be postponed, and that in the following Fiscal Council, announced for June 19, the debate on the possible relative incompatibility for the position to which the referred candidate aspires is introduced into the agenda, proceeding to the vote on the matter in the Fiscal Council, "reads the letter sent to Álvaro García Ortiz.

On the other hand, in his letter, the member of the APIF states that "it is necessary to have a few days so that the Fiscal Council can get an idea of the possible consequences of such an important position could be awarded to a person whose full impartiality in the exercise of the position could be compromised, before third parties. And also, of course, to hear from the affected comrade on the issue."

Finally, the prosecutor of the Supreme Court maintains that "if this request is not granted", the attorney general "would be preventing the Fiscal Council from being able to decide on one of its most important competences, established for the benefit of the Institution and citizens, as well as causing enormous reputational damage to the Attorney General's Office, showing itself incapable of reacting to an event of the magnitude of the one in question".

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