Overview
- King Felipe VI delivered credentials to the 63rd intake of the prosecution service, urging adherence to constitutional principles, prudence, professional ethics and service to the rule of law.
- The cohort is the first assigned to tribunales de instancia under Spain’s Ley Orgánica 1/2025, shifting new prosecutors from single-judge bodies to first-instance courts.
- Seventy-six new prosecutors completed training at the Centro de Estudios Jurídicos, with women comprising 75% of the group and the average age at 29.
- New attorney general Teresa Peramato attended and underscored that outside the law there is arbitrariness, stressing that prosecutors are servants of justice.
- Justice Minister Félix Bolaños was present as reports noted the ceremony’s context of recent judicial confirmation of a two-year disqualification for former attorney general Álvaro García Ortiz over revelation of secrets.