Solicitor General of Spain

Solicitor General of the State
Abogado General del Estado
Coat of Arms of the Spanish Legal Service
Incumbent David Vilas Álcarez since 18 June 2024
Ministry of Justice Office of the Solicitor General
Style	The Most Illustrious (formal) Mrs. Solicitor General (informal)
Member of	General State Administration State Legal Service Council of State Solicitors
Nominator	Minister of Justice
Appointer	Council of Ministers
Term length	No fixed term
Constituting instrument	Royal Decree about the Directorate-General of the Contentious of 1849
Formation	December 28, 1849
First holder	Ventura González Romero
Deputy	Deputy Director General of Advisory Services
Salary	€ 110,169.80 per year[1]
Website	Office of the Solicitor General of Spain

The Solicitor General of the State is a senior official of the Ministry of Justice. The Spanish Solicitor General is the person in charge of directing the Legal Service of the Spanish Government and its relationship with all kinds of national or foreign organisms, entities and bodies. As head of the Legal Service is in charge of the representation and defense of the Kingdom of Spain before the courts, organs and international or supranational organisms in which it is a party in any jurisdictional, arbitral or extrajudicial proceedings. Likewise, it is also responsible for advising the Government and the organs of the Administration about issues of legality.

The Solicitor General is nominated by the Minister of Justice and appointed by the Council of Ministers. To be appointed Solicitor General its needed first to be a State Solicitor. According to the law, in case of vacancy, absence or illness, it is the Minister of Justice who decides who should substitute him, if he do not do so, the law establishes that the senior deputy director-general must to replace him, in this case it would be the Deputy Director-General of Advisory Services.