APIF calls on the attorney general to move from "empty statements" to action to achieve its own budget

He says that Cs will present an amendment to the PGE in this sense at the request of APIF

MADRID, 23 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Professional and Independent Association of Prosecutors (APIF) has called on the State Attorney General (FGE), Álvaro García Ortiz, to move from "mere empty statements" to "actively" demanding its own budget for the Public Ministry, an issue that ensures that Citizens will propose in the Senate as an amendment to the General State Budget (PGE) at the request of APIF.

"The APIF demands that the Attorney General move from mere empty statements (or even to hinder the APIF's efforts in this regard) and move actively to achieve a measure that is essential for the future development of the Public Prosecutor's Office, what the FGE knows perfectly well", says the APIF in a statement collected by Europa Press.

At the same time, he celebrates that, "for the first time and thanks to an initiative of the APIF, the Senate will address an amendment that the parliamentary group of Citizens will present so that the Prosecutor's Office has its own budget."

The APIF has explained that this was requested in "a meeting with each of the parliamentary groups so that the inclusion of the Public Prosecutor's Office as a State body with a differentiated budget is discussed and supported in the General State Budget for 2023, as other entities of constitutional relevance have", and that Cs agreed to it.