Dolores Delgado resigns as state attorney general for health reasons – EL PAÍS

Dolores Delgado has submitted her resignation, for health reasons, as State Attorney General, a position in which she will be replaced by Álvaro García Ortiz, today head of the technical secretary of the Attorney General’s Office, according to El Confidencial and confirmed THE COUNTRY. The relief will be specified in the Council of Ministers this Tuesday. Delgado has held the position, which she reached just a month and a half after leaving her responsibility as Minister of Justice in the Government of Pedro Sánchez, since February 2020. Delgado had joined her position at the end of June, after two months off after undergoing emergency spinal surgery. The prosecutor had returned to work, although her environment admitted that with some difficulty, since the intervention to which she underwent requires a long recovery and will require new surgeries. More information Finally, health reasons have led her to present her resignation, as stated by the prosecutor in a letter sent to the Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop. In a note made public after learning of his decision, Delgado has underlined the “difficult” nature of a decision in which, he assures, he has had to combine his “unequivocal vocation for public service with a high sense of duty and responsibility”, which It has led to “the conviction” that he is not “in the physical conditions required for such a high function.” For the attorney general, the balance of these two and a half years in office is “satisfactory.” “The objectives of the project have been met, in which historical milestones have been achieved for the prosecutor’s career and Spanish justice and a paradigm shift in the Public Prosecutor’s Office focused on transparency, democratic values, human rights, the gender perspective and the protection of the most vulnerable”, collects the note released by the Prosecutor’s Office.[Noticia de última hora. Habrá actualización en breve]What affects the most is what happens closest. To not miss anything, subscribe.Subscribe