Dolores Delgado

She left the office of Minister of Justice on January 13, 2020, being replaced by the socialist Juan Carlos Campo.

After the Sánchez II Government was sworn in, the Council of Minister nominated her on 13 January 2020 as the next Attorney General, succeeding María José Segarra. On January 15, 2020 she left her position as Member of the Congress of Deputies.

Despite criticism of the decision from the opposition parties and prosecutors because questions judicial independence, the Plenary of General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) on 16 January 2020 approved her candidature with 7 votes against of 22 members.

On February 20, 2020, she testified before the Justice Committee of the Congress of Deputies. Among her statements, she denied that having been a minister was a cause for not being appointed attorney general:

She was officially appointed by the Monarch on February 26, 2020.

On October 24, 2019, she was one of the representatives of the caretaker government in the exhumation of Francisco Franco, serving as First Notary of the Kingdom, attesting to the incidentless extraction of the coffin with the remains of the dictator.

After Mariano Rajoy received a vote of no confidence, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez appointed Delgado as Minister of Justice in June 2018. As Minister of Justice she also holds the honorary position of First Notary of the Kingdom. Thus, on 7 June she took office as Minister before the King at Palace of Zarzuela.

On September 2018, the Senate requested her resignation for 149 votes in favour, 82 against and 7 abstentions. The reason, according to the opposition, was that the minister did not sufficiently defend the Supreme Court Justice, Pablo Llarena, before the Belgian courts.

On October 9, 2018, the Congress of Deputies requested her resignation for 166 votes in favour, 91 against and 83 abstentions. The motion, at People's Party initiative, considered that Delgado should not continue in the office because of her "perverse friendships" with the retired police commissioner José Manuel Villarejo and the former National Court justice Baltasar Garzón.

A month later, on November 22, 2018, the Congress of Deputies requested her resignation again for urging the State Lawyers Corps to rule out the crime of rebellion to jailed Catalan separatist leaders.

As a prosecutor she has shown herself as favourable to universal jurisdiction and very vocal on corruption issues. In 2013 she opposed the extradition of Hervé Falciani to Switzerland considering him a valuable asset in fight against tax fraud and corruption.

For a short period of time (2006-2007) Delgado was the spokeswoman of the Prosecutor General's office. In 2011 she was a support prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.

From 1993 Delgado was a prosecutor at the Audiencia Nacional. In that capacity, she led the prosecution on several high-profile drug and terrorist cases, as promoted several Universal jurisdiction cases tried at the court. After the 2004 Madrid train bombings she specialised in Islamic terrorism.

Delgado joined the Public Prosecution Service in 1989, being assigned to the High Court of Justice of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia. In 1993 she was promoted to prosecutor at the Audiencia Nacional, where she stands out for being responsible for important cases against drug trafficking and terrorism. Briefly, from 2006 to 2007 she was the Spokesperson of the Prosecution Ministry. She has also worked at the International Criminal Court and is a fervent defender of universal justice.

In 1989 Delgado entered the Spanish Prosecutor Service, she was first assigned as a prosecutor at the High Court of Justice of Catalonia. Later she was assigned to the Special Anti-Drug Prosecutor's office.

Dolores Delgado García (born 9 November 1962) is a Spanish prosecutor who is the current and 92nd Attorney General of Spain. Previously, she served as Minister of Justice of Spain and First Notary of the Kingdom from 2018 to 2020, in the first Pedro Sánchez administration.

Born in 1962 in Madrid, Delgado studied law at the Autonomous University of Madrid, furthering her legal education with a master's degree in EU Law by the Complutense University of Madrid.