PRESS

Francisco Fernández Marugán, acting Ombudsman of Spain, considers urgent that public authorities address the problem of the unwanted solitude that affects thousands of elderly people in Spain, in his words: “a Social State like ours cannot ignore a group as sensitive as this”. According to him, a political and social debate needs to be developed […]

The acting Ombudsman of Spain, Francisco Fernández Marugán, has received 773 complaints regarding education in the first eight months of the year. The problems that concern most parents, mothers and students have to do with the situation of school facilities, the number of spots available, the teaching staff of the centers and the provision of […]

The acting Ombudsman of Spain, Francisco Fernández Marugán, has made public an institutional declaration (Spanish Version) in which he demands that the Catalan authorities respect the principle of ideological neutrality that should govern any free, open, democratic and tolerant society. Fernández Marugán recalls that “the principle of ideological neutrality proper to a pluralist society is […]

The acting Ombudsman of Spain, Francisco Fernández Marugán, delivered today in the Congress of Deputies and in the Senate the Annual Report of 2017 that the Institution performs as the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (NPM). In 2017 the NPM has inspected 107 places of deprivation […]