The Gürtel case was a major political corruption scandal in Spain that implicated hundreds of officers of the People's Party (PP),Spain's major conservative party,some of whom were subsequently forced to resign or were suspended.
Cándido Conde-Pumpido Tourón is a Spanish judge who currently serves as president of the Constitutional Court since January 12,2023.
Landelino Lavilla Alsina was a Spanish lawyer and politician who served as the minister of justice from 1976 to 1979. He also served as member of parliament and as senator. His most important role was as President of the Congress of Deputies during the coup d'état of 23-F in 1981. Jurist Eduardo García de Enterría called him the "principal architect of the transition to democracy".
Consuelo Madrigal Martínez-Pereda is a Spanish prosecutor who currently serves as prosecutor in the Spanish Supreme Court. Previously,she served as Attorney General of Spain between January 2015 and November 2016,being the first woman to hold this position.
JoséManuel Maza Martín was a Spanish prosecutor,judge,criminologist and writer. He served as the 89th Attorney General of Spain from November 2016 until his death on 18 November 2017.
A constitutional crisis took place in Spain from 2017 to 2018 as the result of a political conflict between the Government of Spain and the Generalitat de Catalunya under the then-President Carles Puigdemont—the government of the autonomous community of Catalonia until 28 October 2017—over the issue of Catalan independence. It started after the law intending to allow the 2017 Catalan independence referendum was denounced by the Spanish government under Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and subsequently suspended by the Constitutional Court until it ruled on the issue. Some international media outlets have described the events as "one of the worst political crises in modern Spanish history".
JoséMaría Romero de Tejada Gómez,was a Spanish conservative jurist who was the Attorney General of Catalonia from 2013 until his death in 2017.
Dolores Delgado García is a Spanish prosecutor who served as Attorney General of Spain from 2020 to 2022. Previously,she served as Minister of Justice and First Notary of the Kingdom from 2018 to 2020,in the first Pedro Sánchez administration.
Luis Manuel Navajas Ramos is a Spanish retired prosecutor. He served as Lieutenant Attorney of the Supreme Court —second highest position within the Prosecution Ministry—from 2014 to 2020 and acting Attorney General of the State in several occasions.
The Office of the Public Prosecutor was created in the Autonomous communities of Spain by Royal Decree 1754/2007 of December 28.
María JoséSegarra Crespo,is a Spanish jurist,Attorney General between 2018 and 2020. She began her career in the prosecutor's office in 1987. From 2004 to 2018 she was in charge of the Prosecutor's Office of Province of Seville.
Julián Artemio Sánchez Melgar,is a Spanish judge and prosecutor currently serving as magistrate of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court. He was the 90th Attorney General of Spain from December 2017 to June 2018. Because of being attorney general he was also member of the Council of State. He is considered a Magistrate with a conservative profile.
Movimiento Semilla is a centre-left,progressivist,social-democratic political party in Guatemala. As of January 14,2024,it became Guatemala's current government party.
Manuel Marchena Gómez is a Spanish judge and prosecutor. He currently serves as Magistrate of the Supreme Court and Chairman of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court.
Ángel Viñas Martín is a Spanish economist and historian. He has published many works dealing with the Spanish Civil War focusing on the war finance as well as the international relations aspects of the conflict.
General elections were held in Guatemala on 25 June 2023 to elect the president and vice president,all 160 seats in Congress,all 20 members of the Central American Parliament,and mayors and councils for all the country's 340 municipalities. Incumbent president Alejandro Giammattei was constitutionally prohibited from running for a second four-year term. However,as no presidential candidate obtained over 50 percent of the vote in the first round on 25 June 2023,a second round was held between the top two finishers on 20 August 2023:Congressman Bernardo Arévalo of the Movimiento Semilla and Sandra Torres,a former first lady representing the National Unity of Hope (UNE) party. Arévalo defeated Torres in the second round with nearly 61 percent of the vote in what was seen as a landslide. The ruling Vamos party won the largest number of seats in Congress.
Alejandra Magdalena Gils Carbó is an Argentine jurist who served as the country's Attorney General from 29 August 2012 to 31 December 2017,during the administrations of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Mauricio Macri.
Juan Ignacio Campos Campos was a Spanish attorney,lieutenant attorney of the Supreme Court of Spain between 2020 and his death in 2021.
Luis Rodríguez de Miguel (1910–1982) was a Spanish politician and jurist. He was a specialist in criminal psychology. He was a member of the Falange Party during the Franco era and served as the minister of housing between 1974 and 1975.
