He was the least star of the star judges. The discreet man who rarely raised his voice and the least known of the judges of the National Court at a time when the image of a judge in a rather cheap suit was common, was common opening the News.
Ventura Pérez Mariño died on Wednesday at the age of 75 in Vigo, in his hometown. There he practiced law during his youth, during the late Franco era and the transition. Many decades later he became the shortest mayor of the city of Vigo, six months, a step as fleeting as his time as a PSOE deputy with Felipe González, when he lived through everything.
Pérez Mariño was born on Christmas 1948. He studied at the Jesuits of Vigo and at Icade, where he studied Law and Business Administration, and obtained a degree from the University of Deusto. He had a judicial career in Madrid and began working in the office of Enrique Tierno Galván and Raúl Morodo, in the most intense years of the transition. Later, he became a magistrate of the National Court, where he led important proceedings against the terrorist Josu Ternera or the charlines clan, of the Galician drug trafficker Manuel Charlín.
In 1993, after a brilliant performance against ETA and the Galician drug traffickers, a Felipe González cornered by corruption announced the signings of Judge Baltasar Garzón and Ventura Pérez Mariño as the spearhead of a government willing to combat corruption head-on. But their time in politics ended in frustration. One was promised the Ministry of the Interior that never came and the other an active role to combat crime from within that never came either. During his time as deputy for Lugo, he ended up resigning from the record and asking for the resignation of Felipe González. In February 1995 he resigned from his record in the Cortes after breaking party discipline and voting against the Government up to four times.
After his return to the judiciary, he was in charge of imposing the first sentence on Mario Conde for his management at the head of Banesto, which had been intervened two years earlier. He sentenced him to six years in prison for appropriating 600 million pesetas that he paid to Argentia Trust. Shortly afterward he asked for a leave of absence and returned to Vigo where he opened an office in the city center.
Eight years after his frustrating time in Congress, politics tempted him again. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero rescued him and in 2003 he accepted another offer from the socialists and led the candidacy for mayor as an independent. He won the elections and his first step was to get off the ground. However, not even a hundred days had passed in government and he recognized that he experienced the management of the most populated city in Galicia as “anguish,” as reported in the EL PAÍS chronicle of that day. Six months after taking office, with the lukewarm support of the BNG, the nationalists allied themselves with the PP and let it fall during the processing of the General Municipal Planning Plan (PGOM), which it opposed due to its wide margins of the law. to build. After this foray into politics, he returned to his judicial career and his last destination was the Investigative Court number 7 of Vigo. In his country he has spent the last years of his life suffering from Parkinson's, with his wife, also judge Dolores Galovart.
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The news of his death, in the final stretch of the electoral campaign, was a reminder to all the candidates that there was a time when politics was different.
Condolences have come from very different political positions. The socialist candidate for the PSOE Xunta, José Ramón Gómez Besteiro, said goodbye on social networks to “a colleague always committed to equal opportunities” and the PP candidate, Alfonso Rueda, highlighted the desire “to improve the lives of people” of the judge. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who considered him a “rebel with a cause,” said of him that “He was independent as a lawyer, as a judge and as a politician, and he had courage as a lawyer, as a judge and as a politician.”
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