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The Defensor del Pueblo (e,f) Francisco Fernández Marugán, addressed the Ministers of Health, Finance, the Interior, Inclusion, Social Security and Migration and Foreign Affairs, the European Union and Cooperation to inform them of the problems raised by citizens in the thousands of complaints received to date regarding the COVID-19 health crisis. Likewise, he also maintained […]

The acting Ombudsman of Spain, Francisco Fernández Marugán, ensured that the right of minorities to use their own language, to practice their religion or to develop their culture “is guaranteed by full constitutional recognition of the fundamental rights to the use of the co-official language, to education, to political participation and to the right to […]

The acting Ombudsman of Spain, Francisco Fernández Marugán, asked the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation to study the possibility of establishing an extrajudicial system for those who were affected by the Mortgage Loan Reference Rate (IRPH). The recent judgment of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that this rate is liable […]

The acting Ombudsman, Francisco Fernández Marugán, believes it is “urgent” for Spain to pass a state act laying down “global, mutually agreed and binding terms on how to fight warming and how to get ready to face its consequences”. Before the start of the Climate Summit, held in Madrid between 2-13 December, the Ombudsman pointed […]