Fernando Valdés Dal-Ré

Born in Valladolid on 22 April 1945,[1] Valdés completed a doctorate in law at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).

[3] In July 2012, on the initiative of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE),[4] Valdés was elected as a magistrate of the TC by the Congress of Deputies.

[6] On 14 October 2020, while maintaining his innocence, Valdés resigned in order to protect the reputation of the Constitutional Court and to prepare for any upcoming trial; the jurisdiction of the case was transferred back to the local court.

[7] Prosecutors requested a ten-month prison sentence for Valdés in March 2021.

[8] The case was dropped in July 2022, as he was deemed unfit to testify due to his dementia.