Following the resignation of Álvaro García Ortiz, the Government has moved quickly and has chosen Teresa Peramato as its proposal for the position of Attorney General of the State.
The nomination was announced on Tuesday, coinciding with November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, a symbolic date considering that Peramato has spent most of his career linked to the fight against gender violence.
The Ministry of Justice emphasizes that it is “one of the main promoters of judicial specialization” in this area.
Who is Teresa Peramato and what is her professional background?
Born in Salamanca in 1962, Teresa Peramato studied law at the University of Salamanca before entering the prosecutor’s career at the end of the 1980s. Since then, she has accumulated more than 35 years of experience, a career that has taken her to various provincial prosecutors’ offices such as Tenerife and Valladolid, as well as to the High Courts of Justice of Catalonia and Madrid.
Her profile combines a solid legal background with a long career in positions of increasing responsibility within the Public Prosecutor’s Office, making her one of the most experienced figures of her generation.
A commitment against gender violence
Peramato’s specialization in gender violence is not recent: her link with this matter was consolidated in 2005, when she took over the delegation of the section of Violence against Women in the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Madrid. From then on, her career was almost entirely oriented to this area.
Subsequently, she was incorporated to the Prosecutor’s Office of the Chamber against Violence againstWomen, occupying between 2021 and 2025 the position of Delegate Chamber Prosecutor, one of the highest responsibilities in this area. In January 2025 she went one step further and was appointed Chief Prosecutor of the Criminal Section of the Supreme Court, where she oversees the attention to victims in criminal proceedings.
In addition to her institutional work, Peramato has publicly defended the need to avoid revictimization in sexual violence trials, stressing that a legal framework should be studied to ensure that women do not always have to testify in person before their aggressor.
Your position on vicarious violence
One of the areas in which Peramato has been most forceful is vicarious violence, in which the aggressor uses the children to cause harm to the mother. In various public interventions she has described this type of violence as an act of “cruelty and evil“, insisting that it does not respond to a mental illness, but to dynamics of domination and control.
During an interview on RTVE he stated that “an abuser can never be a good father“, and demanded resources and specialized training (in trauma, risk and gender perspective) to properly assess visitation regimes in cases of male violence.
In January 2023, it also called for the strengthening of precautionary measures to protect victims, even when not directly requested by them, as well as the use of technological devices to prevent dangerous approaches.
Acknowledgments in the legal field
Peramato’s work has been recognized in recent years with several equality-related awards. In 2024 it received the IV Premios Igualdad de la Abogacía, in recognition of its constant work in defense of women’s rights and against gender discrimination.
She has also participated in academic and legal spaces, where her collaboration in the essay “La violencia de género, una realidad internacional”, a text in which she reflects on femicide and its structural dimension, stands out.
