Álvaro García Ortiz (Salamanca, 1967) will be the next Attorney General of the State. The sudden resignation of Dolores Delgado for health reasons raises to the highest the, until today, courtroom prosecutor and head of the Technical Secretariat of the State Attorney General's Office.
From the Government they frame the movement as a natural replacement since Ortiz has acted as Delgado's right hand in recent years.
After entering the tax career in 1998, once he graduated in Law from the University of Valladolid, the next attorney general has practiced his profession in Galicia for 18 years, highlighting, among others, his work as a prosecutor in the Prestige case that lasted almost a decade after the sinking of the oil tanker off the Galician coast, where it spilled thousands of tons of fuel.
Although his management as special fire coordinator prosecutor of the aforementioned Autonomous Community also stands out after, in 2017, the then president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, spoke of a "homicidal criminal" activity and came to raise the arson crime as a terrorist".
Father of two children -his partner is the prosecutor specialized in gender violence Pilar Fernández-, Ortiz comes from the Union of Progressive Prosecutors, an entity that he chaired between 2013 and 2017.
The Popular Party has made its first assessment of the appointment and has done so to criticize it by recalling that García Ortiz campaigned just two years ago together with the Galician socialists against the then president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. "From there to the Prosecutor's Office," sources from 'Genoa' have proclaimed.
The depoliticization of Justice is one of the demands of the Popular Party to reach an agreement with the PSOE in the renewal of the judicial bodies and, in fact, it is stated in the judicial proposal that it sent to the Government a week ago.
In the specific section related to the Public Ministry, it states that "as guarantees of independence of the State Attorney General's Office, the possible disqualification of the State Attorney General will be expressly included" and it will be established that "those who have held political positions in the previous five years.
