Fernando Valdés Dal-Ré

Fernando Valdés Dal-Ré (22 April 1945 – 9 March 2023) was a Spanish jurist, labour inspector and professor of labour law. He was the Solicitor General of Spain from 1986 to 1990 and a magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Spain from 2012 to 2020.

Biography Born in Valladolid on 22 April 1945, Valdés completed a doctorate in law at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He taught at the University of Salamanca (1977–1978) and the University of Valladolid (UVA; 1978–1991), then at UCM until his retirement. He was also an associate professor at the Paris Nanterre University (1986–2012) and Lumière University Lyon 2 (2005–2012) in France. He received an honorary doctorate from the UVA in 2015.

Valdés was a labour inspector from 1968 to 1974, and a clerk at the Constitutional Court of Spain (TC) from 1983 to 1985, and the Solicitor General of Spain from 1986 to 1990.

In July 2012, on the initiative of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE),

Valdés was arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife of 53 years in their Majadahonda home; she denied the allegations. The case was investigated by the Supreme Court of Spain. Prosecutors requested a ten-month prison sentence for Valdés in March 2021. The case was dropped in July 2022, as he was deemed unfit to testify due to his dementia.

Valdés died on 9 March 2023, at the age of 77.