The majority of the General Council of the Judiciary has considered that Álvaro García Ortiz is not suitable to serve as Attorney General of the State after the Supreme Court ruled that he incurred a “deviation of power” when he promoted his predecessor in office, the former minister and former attorney general, Dolores Delgadoto the highest category of the Tax Career.
Eight members of the Plenary have voted in favor of this thesis, seven against and the counselor Enrique Lucas has abstained since his brother, the magistrate Pablo Lucas, He presided over the Chamber that annulled Delgado’s appointment.
In short, the governing body of the judges does not approve of García Ortiz. However, this report is mandatory but not binding, so the Government can appoint its candidate for State Attorney General.
According to legal sources, the members have voted in favor of considering the attorney general unsuitable. Nuria Díaz Abad, José María Macías, Juan Manuel Fernández, Gerardo Martínez Tristán, Wenceslao Olea, José Antonio Ballesteros Carmen Llombart y María Ángeles Carmona, all members of the conservative sector of the Council.
The members of the progressive sector voted in favor of giving the approval to García Ortiz Roser Barch, Álvaro Cuesta, Mar Cabrejas, Pilar Sepúlveda, Clara Martínez de Careaga and the conservatives Juan Martinez Moya and the president Vicente Guilarte. The abstention of member Enrique Lucas was supported by the unanimity of the Plenary.