The Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsmen was established in connection with the adoption of the Swedish Regeringsform (Instrument of Government) that came into effect after the deposition of the Swedish King in 1809 and which was based to some extent on Montesquieu's ideas about the division of powers.
In August 1998 he was employed as a legal adviser in the Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman of Iceland and was appointed Deputy to the Ombudsman in 2001, serving in that role until 2004.
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On January 1st, 2009, the Praesidium of Parliament appointed Professor Spano as Parliamentary Ombudsman of Iceland in a provisional capacity as the elected Ombudsman, Mr. Tryggvi Gunnarsson, was asked to serve in a special investigatory commission into the banking crises in Iceland.
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Professor Spano served as Parliamentary Ombudsman until 1 July 2010, but continued to serve as Ombudsman on an ad hoc basis in 2011 and 2012.
It was also the year when the Parliamentary Ombudsman and the Committee on the Constitution were created.
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This decision led to the makers of the show reporting the Swedish Broadcasting Commission in 2006 to the Parliamentary Ombudsman of bias, since one of the commissioners in the board, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, had been active in one of the women's shelters connected to ROKS.