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Eduardo Torres-Dulce resignation as Attorney Spain. – Efe
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The state attorney general in Spain, Eduardo Torres-Dulce, yesterday resigned a year ago leaving office after received strong pressure to act against the independence vote in Catalonia, judged unconstitutional by the government.
The highest representative of the prosecution in Spain, appointed by the Government to an entire legislature but independent action, announced the decision in a statement citing “personal reasons”.
You have communicated its decision to the Minister of Justice. Torres-Dulce return to their place in the prosecution before the Constitutional Court, “says the court. In office for three years, this original criminal 64, who is also a film critic, had gained a reputation for independence especially for the actions of justice in several corruption scandals splashed especially the ruling Popular Party (PP , right).
“I have not tolerated ever that the government tells me what I have to do, and do not tolerate it because quite simply it is a crime,” he recently said in Congress.
“I do not think myself I can say in any way that I am prone to Government tax,” he insisted, noting that during his tenure the Bárcenas case began, an alleged plot bonuses in black and illegal funding directed extesorero by the PP, Luis Barcenas, now in prison.
This claim was produced after the crisis arising from the organization in Catalonia in a symbolic vote on independence last November 9 despite being suspended by the Constitutional Court.
Nearly 1.9 million Catalans supported independence at the ballot in which could vote about 6.3 million of the 7.5 million inhabitants of the northeastern region.
In the days following the consultation, several leaders of the Popular Party publicly pressured the prosecutor to file a complaint against the regional president, Artur Mas nationalist, prompting scrutiny.
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