The five associations that have convened have cataloged the monitoring of unemployment as a “resounding success.” In a joint statement, they have encrypted the average follow -up of 70% (75% on Tuesday, 70% on Wednesday and 65% this Thursday), which has disseminated the Ministry of Justice, which has not yet made public those on Thursday. Although associations have stated not to have the number of affected judgments, the General Council of the Judiciary has stated in a press release that it has not received incidents about its development.
The judges and prosecutors on strike have expressed their “deepest thanks and recognition” to professionals who, “with their sacrifice and courage,” have seconded unemployment. They have also reiterated that it is a “historical strike”, in this period they have assured that they have not contacted the Ministry of Justice and have branded “unheard of” the department headed by “has not responded to the demands raised or opened a negotiating table.”
Both associations and the CGPJ have reiterated that they lack the data of the postponed accusations. The Council insists that it does not have “the competence to collect identity data from those who participate in the strike”, but recalls that the department directed by Bolaños “has publicly provided participation data based on the information required by its department to the Government Secretaries of the Superior Courts of Justice”. The Ministry asked the CGPJ for a daily report on the participants of the strike, but the council has not sent it because it ensures no competences for it.
In the press release, the Judiciary has reiterated that the strike “lacks normative support”, as already unanimously agreed in an extraordinary plenary session that celebrated on June 26, where all the vowels signed a pronouncement that concluded that the right to strike of the judges has no normative support, so it gave it for not summoned.
The associations have affected this Thursday on the one hand, which they understand as measures to give “more power” “without strengthening their independence”, referring to the reform promoted by the Government to leave in the hands of the prosecutors the instruction of the criminal cases. On the other, the extraordinary stabilization process to include in the judicial and fiscal careers 1,004 people who now exercise as substitute judges or prosecutors. According to the associations, this measure “unfairly violates the rights of the 4,000 young people who dedicate their personal and family efforts to achieve the dream of being a judge or prosecutor.”
This Friday, once the unemployment is over, the associations will meet “to carry out an exhaustive assessment of the strike” and to settle which will be the next steps if their demands are not met.
