The Judges and Prosecutor strike It has had a Mass monitoring In the province of AlicanteDuring your first day. Near a eighty percent of professionals He has seconded and hundreds of suspended procedures. The halls of the judicial headquarters were on Tuesday unusually emptyat some dates on which there is still an intense activity even though it coincides with the beginning of one of the Summer holiday shifts. These are weeks in which numerous judicial bodies are closing some of the issues that have pending before vacations begin. However, the activity was similar to that of any August, month that is judicially unusual and in which only strictly urgent issues are addressed. The strike will continue this Wednesday, July 2 and Thursday 3. For these days of strikes, there is not even an official call for concentrations against judicial venues.
The strike was summoned throughout Spain For the Professional Association of the Magistracy, the Francisco de Vitoria, the Independent Judicial Forum, the Association of Prosecutors and the Professional and Independent Association of Prosecutors to protest against some of the reforms prepared by the Government to regulate access to the career. Calls argue that with this reform judicial independence is compromised. It is the associations that have led monitoring control and that have estimated 75 percent in Spain.
The day passed normally and without remarkable incidentsaccording to the sources consulted by this newspaper. During this first day of strike, in the Alicante audience The judgments that were indicated in each of the criminal sections. Some of the rooms had already communicated it to the parties on Monday, to avoid unnecessary displacements. Some of them will not be able to stop all week having indicated a cause with prisoner, and which, therefore, is part of the minimum services. In Elche, the audience has celebrated judgments with causes with prisoner, judicial sources indicated.
Image of this Tuesday of one of the monitors that informs about the state of the judgments indicated in the Palace of Justice. / J. A. M.
In the courts of the province, a part of the strikers have chosen not to go to work, although others have appeared in their offices, although they were formally considered on strike. In the case of Alicante, in the Pardo Gimeno Justice Palacein which it isn Courts of social, contentious and civiljust three courts were celebrating judgments. The halls in which the view is being expected remained unusually empty.
In the building where the Courts of instructionthe greatest activity was in the guardiawhere there was A total of 16 detainees. Most of the problems came derived from the new procedural management system.
The tracking of the strike has also been majority in the rest of the province. In Elche, about 70 percent has been suspended of the 67 appearances that were scheduled for yesterday. While in Benidorm and in Déniathe tracking of the strike has been total with the exception of guard services.
Empty halls in the Pardo Gimeno Palace on Tuesday at rush hour. / J. A. M.
In Alicante, the follow -up has been more irregular in the Prosecutor's Office where there were doubts of how far the Legal amparo of the strike. In the last unemployment held in 2018, since the State Attorney General's Office had given the approval to the prosecutors to strike. However, this time the attorney general has indicated that It lacks normative protection and that we had to go to everything that was indicated before the strike. In any casethe prosecutor's absence could not be the cause of the suspension of the trial, and that the criterion that has been followed since the Prosecutor's Office of Alicante. In the Public Ministry there have been prosecutors who have not gone to their job and have seconded the strike and others who have taken advantage of the suspension of judgments to advance pending work In his offices. There were judges who had delayed their vacations to follow the strikes.
No control of the strikers
He Ministry of Justice I had already asked the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) and the prosecution that the judges and prosecutors who had not attended their jobs to know the Call monitoring and detract the salary of those who support it, as is the case in any strike worker. However, yesterday I had not received any communication from who was a strike.
Sources from the Ministry of Justice stressed that on the first day of “strike” there has been almost absolute normality in the courts and prosecutors throughout the country, but that the only official figure of the monitoring It is the number of strikers who communicate their participation in unemployment and those that the payer of his payroll has to detract the salary. «At 6:00 p.m., neither the CGPJ, nor the FGE, nor the associations of judges and prosecutors have communicated to the Ministry No one -person fact that has seconded unemployment», Said these sources from the Ministry.
As required, the CGPJ and the State Attorney General believe that call Nor has a normative basisthey give it for not summoned and are not receiving data from people who are seconding the strike or from the strikers themselves or of the convening associations.
The Ministry reiterated the need for a reform that modernizes judicial and fiscal careers For the first time in 40 years and that, basically, blunder by law the scholarships for opponents, incorporates a written exam in oppositions to measure more skills in addition to memoristics, and establishes A stabilization process for substitute judges and prosecutors (Most are women) to end precariousness and meet the demands of the European Union.
For its part, the government spokeswoman, Pilar joyshowed his respect for the strike of judges and prosecutors on Tuesday, but made clear whatand the executive will not resign to the “modernizing” reform of justice. Joy has remembered that this reform – which is discussed in Congress – “has important virtues” such as the consolidated scholarships for those who want to oppose, the test written in oppositionsthat oral tests can be recorded or that Judges who want to train future opponents register in a public registry. “
Suspensions by surprise
The suspensions of trials for the strike have caused the discomfort between professionals that in the Palace of Justice of Alicante the trial they had indicated that morning were found. «This is a trial for events that occurred in 2018. Seven years later We finally had our eyes and we found that the magistrate is a strike, ”complained a lawyer affected by one of the suspensions. They have then had to Wait for about an hour in an air conditioning aisle to quote them for a new trial date. In October it will be noted again.
The scene was repeated in several courts throughout the morning. «I called yesterday afternoon to see if the signal remained And in court they told me yes. Upon arrival I found that they strike, ”another lawyer lamented. It was not widespread, since in other courts that professionals had been notified that the hearing was suspended.
Faced with professionals, from the Illustrious Alicante's law school (ICALI) They have been sent a list with the minimum services that are covered at this strike. They have also recommended that they make sure before with the court to confirm whether the hearing will be held or not, explained the dean Ignacio Gally. Both Gallly and the dean of the College of Procurators, Pilar Fuentesthey tried to have some list of professionals who were going to join the strike from the Dean A work that is being impossible, since to guarantee the right to strike, the judges and prosecutors who decide to join the strikes will communicate directly to the strike committee by email.
Image of the concentration of judges and prosecutors on June 11. / Alex Domínguez
«There is no official list What courts are on strike, ”Fuentes lamented. Information you want to know in order to Avoid unnecessary displacements. Especially in the case of professionals who have to travel from other municipalities to be able to attend. It is a petition that they already put on the table in the previous striker strike of the administration of justice held two years ago.
In the days before the call, the strike committee had recalled that The right to strike is individual and is protected by article 28.2 of the Spanish Constitution, so It is not necessary to notify its exercise to any hierarchical superior. And this is the criteria that is being adopted. The strikers have an email address to notify that they will support unemployment and nobody except the convenes know who is a strike.
In the absence of an official regulation of Minimum services On the part of the General Council of the Judiciary and the State Attorney General, the convening associations have established their own, which focus on guarantee attention to judicial and fiscal actions of an urgent nature or that directly affect fundamental rights. In the criminal order it is where some of these situations were given that could be protected by minimum services.
Some of the courts that were celebrating judgments on Tuesday have already notified some professionals that those planned for Wednesday had been suspended on the occasion of the strike.
Subscribe to continue reading
