Teresa Peramato, an influential progressive prosecutor specializing in gender-based violence
Teresa Peramato, a career prosecutor who has been in the Public Prosecutor's Office for 35 years and has the "unanimous approval" of legal operators, has a long history, especially in the fight against gender-based violence, and is considered one of the "greatest drivers" of judicial specialization in this field.
Teresa Peramato, Europa Press stock photo.
On Tuesday, the Council of Ministers will propose Teresa Peramato Martin as Attorney General of the State to replace Alvaro García Ortiz, after the Supreme Court has imposed a two-year disqualification on the latter.
Peramato was president of the Progressive Union of Prosecutors (UPF), from which also come Álvaro García Ortiz and Dolores Delgado, both of Peramato's predecessors.
Teresa Peramato, a career prosecutor who has been in the Public Prosecutor's Office for 35 yearsand has the "unanimous approval" of legal operators , has a long history, especially in the fight against gender-based violence, and is considered one of the "greatest drivers" of judicial specialization in this field.
He entered the fiscal career in 1990 and, after serving in various prosecutor's offices (Tenerife, Valladolid and Barcelona), was transferred to the Provincial Prosecutor's Office in Madrid, where in 2005 he was appointed Deputy Prosecutor for the Violence against Women Section of the Provincial Prosecutor's Office.
He was also a member of the Group of Experts at the State Observatory on Violence against Women to produce the first of the reports published annually by the State Observatory on Violence against Women (2007).
He has also served as Prosecutor of the Chamber against Violence against Women since 2021 and Prosecutor of the Delegated Chamber for the Care and Protection of Victims in Criminal Proceedings.
In January 2025, he was appointed Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme Court (Criminal Section).
Committed to the protection of victims of gender-based violence, he has participated as a lecturer in numerous training courses, both at the State and international levels, and has published numerous articles of legal content , especially those relating to gender-based violence and equality, and has received numerous awards and recognition for his struggle and contribution in these areas.
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