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Álvaro García Ortiz

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is García and the second or maternal family name is Ortiz.
Álvaro García Ortiz
García Ortiz in 2024
Attorney General of Spain
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 August 2022
Preceded byDolores Delgado
Chief Prosecutor of the Technical Secretariat of the Attorney General's Office
In office
5 March 2020 – 2 August 2022
Preceded byFernando Rodríguez Rey
Succeeded byAna Isabel García León
Personal details
Born (1967-12-16) 16 December 1967 (age 57)
Lumbrales, Spain
Alma materUniversity of Valladolid

Álvaro García Ortiz (born 16 December 1967) is a Spanish jurist and prosecutor who has worked for the Supreme Court of Spain. Since 2022, he has been Spanish attorney general. Prior to 2022, García Ortiz was chief prosecutor at the Prosecution Ministry.[1]

Professional career

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García Ortiz was born on 16 December 1967 in Lumbrales[2] and graduated with a degree in law from the University of Valladolid,[3] then he began working for the Mahón prosecutor's office in 1998.[4] Two years later, he was assigned to the Santiago de Compostela's Prosecutor's Office and, in 2004, he was promoted to the Prosecutor's Office in the High Court of Justice of Galicia, as an environmental prosecutor.[5] From this position, he led the public prosecution in the Prestige oil spill.[6]

In 2018, he was elected by his peers to be part of the Prosecutors' Council of Spain [es], an advisory body to the Attorney General of the State.[7][8]

In 2020, after spending around two decades working in environmental law,[9] attorney general Dolores Delgado promoted him to chief prosecutor of the Attorney General's Office's Technical Secretariat.[10][11]

García Ortiz is part of the management team of the European Judges for Democracy and Liberty.[12] In the past, he also wrote as a columnist for the Spanish media and in technical publications.[13][14][15]

Attorney General

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On 19 July 2022, after Dolores Delgado announced she would resign for health reasons,[16] it was revealed that García Ortiz would be the government's nominee to replace her.[17] On 21 July, the General Council of the Judiciary endorsed his nomination by a vote of twelve to seven.[18]

García Ortiz being inaugurated Attorney General

Following a review period by the Justice Commission of the Congress of Deputies, the Council of Ministers appointed him Attorney General on 1 August 2022.[19] The next day, he took office before the King, in the Royal Palace of La Almudaina.[20][21]

After Pedro Sánchez formed his third government, the Council of Ministers asked that García Ortiz's suitability for office was reviewed. After the request was granted, the General Council of the Judiciary found, in a non-binding report, that he was unsuitable for office.[22] This was the first time in Spanish democratic history that the government's candidate for Attorney General had been rejected.[23] Despite this, the government re-appointed García Ortiz on 27 December 2023.[24]

Since 16 October 2024, García Ortiz has been investigated by the Supreme Court for suspicions that he or his office could have leaked to the press private emails related to a tax fraud case of the boyfriend of the president of the Community of Madrid.[25][26][27] 14 days later the Civil Guard searched the Prosecutor's Office looking for evidence of the crime.[28]

References

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  1. ^ "Álvaro García Ortiz, nuevo Fiscal Jefe de la Secretaría Técnica".
  2. ^ "Currículum vitae D. Álvaro García Ortiz" (PDF). June 2022.
  3. ^ Gómez, Álvaro (2017-09-24). ""Detrás de muchos incendios hay problemas estructurales"". El Norte de Castilla (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-03-30.
  4. ^ "BOE-A-1999-15357 Orden de 25 de junio de 1999 sobre resolución de concurso para provisión de destinos en la Carrera Fiscal". boe.es. Retrieved 2024-03-30.
  5. ^ "El fiscal general del Estado vuelve a Santiago para hablar de patrimonio histórico". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 2023-04-01. Retrieved 2024-12-06.
  6. ^ Santiago, C. Villar | (2013-07-15). "Álvaro García Ortiz: 'La Justicia sería más justa si el juicio se hubiese celebrado tras la catástrofe'". La Opinión de A Coruña (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-06.
  7. ^ "El fiscal gallego de Medio Ambiente, el más votado de España en el Consejo Fiscal". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 2018-03-24. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  8. ^ "El nuevo fiscal general, clave en la respuesta judicial al golpe secesionista". Diario ABC (in Spanish). 2018-06-05. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  9. ^ Apestegui, Aida Pena, Ainhoa (2019-04-14). "Álvaro García Ortiz: "Solo el 3 o 4% de los incendios tienen intención de hacer mal"". cadena SER (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-04-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Berbell, Carlos (2020-03-06). "Álvaro García Ortiz ya es el nuevo fiscal jefe de la Secretaría Técnica de la Fiscalía General del Estado". confilegal.com. Retrieved 2024-08-29.
  11. ^ "C.G.P.J | Poder Judicial | Tribunal Supremo | En Portada | Álvaro García Ortiz toma posesión como fiscal jefe de la Secretaría Técnica de la Fiscalía General del Estado". www.poderjudicial.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  12. ^ medelnet (2012-02-21). "Management Board". MEDEL - Magistrats européens pour la démocratie et les libertés. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  13. ^ "Artículos escritos por Álvaro García Ortiz". El País (in European Spanish). 2018-12-20. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  14. ^ "Álvaro García Ortiz". www.eldiario.es. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  15. ^ "Alvaro García Ortíz". Dialnet (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  16. ^ Águeda, Irene Castro, Pedro (2022-07-19). "Dolores Delgado renuncia como fiscal general del Estado por razones de salud". elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-04-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ Gallardo, Cristina (2022-07-19). "¿Quién es Álvaro García, el nuevo fiscal general del Estado?". www.elperiodico.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  18. ^ EFE, Agencia (2022-07-21). "El CGPJ avala por mayoría a García Ortiz para ser fiscal general del Estado". COPE (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  19. ^ "BOE-A-2022-12946 Real Decreto 675/2022, de 1 de agosto, por el que se nombra Fiscal General del Estado a don Álvaro García Ortiz". boe.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  20. ^ "El nuevo fiscal general promete su cargo ante el Rey en el palacio de la Almudaina de Palma". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2022-08-02. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  21. ^ "El fiscal general Álvaro García Ortiz jura en Palma su cargo ante el Rey". EXPANSION (in Spanish). 2022-08-02. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  22. ^ "El CGPJ rechaza por primera vez avalar al fiscal general nombrado por el Gobierno". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2023-11-30. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  23. ^ "Spain's top judicial body opposes Government's attorney general candidate for first time". www.catalannews.com. 2023-11-30. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  24. ^ "El Gobierno nombra de nuevo a García Ortiz como fiscal general del Estado". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2023-12-27. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  25. ^ "El Supremo imputa al fiscal general García Ortiz por la filtración de datos reservados del novio de Ayuso". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2024-10-16. Retrieved 2024-12-04.
  26. ^ Rincón, Reyes (2024-10-16). "El Supremo encausa por primera vez en democracia a un fiscal general del Estado". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-04.
  27. ^ "El Tribunal Supremo abre causa contra el fiscal general del Estado por un presunto delito de revelación de secretos | CGPJ | Poder Judicial | Noticias Judiciales". www.poderjudicial.es. Retrieved 2024-12-04.
  28. ^ "El Supremo ordena a la Guardia Civil registrar el despacho del fiscal general del Estado". Onda Cero (Spanish).
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