Santander (EFE).- The president of the General Council of Spanish Lawyers, Victoria Ortega, has demanded an agreement that puts an end to the successive labor conflicts in the Administration of Justice and that “immediately” reactivates the operation of the public service.
Ortega has also called for a State Pact that, after the general elections on July 23, puts Justice “among the priorities.”
“It has never been, it is not a thing of either one or the other, and it is time for Justice to be taken seriously,” he stated.
The president of the General Council of Lawyers of Spain has made these statements in a protest in the Courts of Las Salesas, in Santander.
The Legal Profession calls for an agreement on strategic points such as management, resources, technological transformation or regulatory evolution.
“Dialogue, agreeing and reaching an agreement is essential,” Ortega stressed.
Warn of increased delays
The dean of the College of Lawyers of Cantabria, Andrés de Diego, has warned that “when the conflict ends, the delays are going to get longer.”
And he believes that an agreement will also be needed in each Superior Court of Justice to “be able to normalize this chaotic situation.”
After pointing out that it is up to the Ministry of Justice to resolve the conflict, De Diego has assured that the lawyers respect the civil servants’ right to strike, but has indicated that there is another right, “that of effective judicial protection of citizens.”
For this reason, he has called for “a modulation of the measures”, even more so because a new government may not be formed until after the summer.
“Justice cannot be paralyzed all this time,” he added.
The dean of the Association of Attorneys of Cantabria, Rosaura Díez, lamented that the strikes that have been taking place since the beginning of the year “have been nothing more than the straw that has broken the camel’s back due to the rather abnormal functioning of the Administration of Justice”.
“the strikes have come to give the last straw to an unfortunate situation,” he criticized.
As representatives of the citizen before the courts, the prosecutors have raised their voices for “the very serious economic and personal” that these strikes are assuming.
As far as they are concerned, they protest because the income has stopped while the expenses are maintained.