The Council of Ministers has approved today the Royal Decree by which Teresa Peramato is appointed State General Attorney.
The General Council of the Judiciary unanimously endorsed Peramato’s appointment as they considered she fulfills the merits and requirements for the office. The new General Attorney also appeared last week before the Justice Committee in Congress, as contemplated by the Organic Statute of the Prosecutor's Office.
In the coming days, Peramato shall be sworn-in before the King, and then shall assume office at the Supreme Court and the State General Attorney’s office.
Teresa Peramato is a career prosecutor with 35 years of practice who has the unanimous recognition of legal actors. She has extensive experience, especially in the fight against gender-based violence, and is considered one of the main drivers of the judicial specialization in this area. She is currently the head prosecutor of the chamber of the Criminal Section of the Supreme Court and delegated chamber prosecutor for the Protection and Guardianship of Victims in Criminal Proceedings.
She joined the prosecutor career in 1990, and after going through several Prosecutor's Offices (Tenerife, Valladolid and Barcelona), she moved to the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office in Madrid, where in 2005 she was appointed delegated prosecutor for the Section of Violence against Women. She was also a member of the group of experts of the State Observatory of Violence against Women which drafted the first annual report of this organization in 2007.
In 2018, she filled the position of prosecutor assigned to the Prosecutor’s Office before the Constitutional Court. And in May 2021, she was appointed General Chamber Prosecutor against Violence against Women, a position she held until January 2025.
