The Government accelerates the reform of access to the judicial career in Congress after ensuring the rejection of the amendments of PP and Vox | Spain

« The greatest reform in the judicial career in 40 years, » said the PSOE parliamentary spokesman, Patxi López, the need to carry out as soon as possible as soon as possible as soon as possible the bill that changes, expands and facilitates access to the works of judge and prosecutor. This Thursday the parties of the coalition in the government and its usual partners will knock the amendments to the whole presented by PP and VOX and a period of just 24 hours will be given to be presented in the Congress partial amendments to that new rule. All in a great context political, media and judicial harassment against the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, who is Monday was one step away from sitting on the bench in the case of the couple of the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and in one of the most tense moments of the legislature for different judicial scandals.

When the Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, presented in May the reform project of the fiscal statute that has sponsored and promoted for months assured that this reform that will expand the mandate of that key position in the future to five years of any current controversy and specifically of the procedural situation that fully affects the current State Attorney General. These changes in the Fiscal Statute are part of another law and will not take effect until January 1, 2028, that is, for when the current mandate of Álvaro García Ortiz ends in theory and after the next general, not scheduled elections. But for the PP and Vox everything is part of the same strategy of fence to justice.

The Government is immersed in several modifications of draft related to the Prosecutor’s Office, the Criminal Procedure Law and the entry into the Judiciary, some even in its early stages, but the bill discussed this Thursday focuses on access to those careers of judge and prosecutor. Socialist Patxi López wielded to justify the need and urgency of this first major reform – which reject several associations of conservative judges and prosecutors to the point of Convene a 10 -minute break on Wednesday In protest – that with it the equal opportunities will be promoted to access the work of judge and prosecutor with scholarships for four years with the minimum wage to those who oppose and the direct arrival of the jurists with more than 10 years of experience.

In the Government and the PSOE they argue that all these changes are in line with the provisions of most European countries and with what entities such as the group of states against corruption (Greco), an organ dependent on the Council of Europe for years have demanded for years.

The reform for access to the judicial career counts, in principle, with the support of virtually all parties of the investiture pact, with which the minister continues in conversations to accept some partial amendments and that on Thursday they will vote against the totality amendments that they have only registered and defend the PP and Vox.

The spokesmen of those parties, Miguel Tellado and Pepa Millán, agreed again in their criticisms of the Executive on the project, because they consider it another interference more in their attempt to control and attack justice by feeling surrounded by various scandals.

Millán, the representative of the Ultra Formation, accused « the government of the accused and their partners » of trying « twist the law of the Judiciary to facilitate their politicization through prosecutors and judges eliminating the requirements of merit, capacity and equality in access to the race. ”And there he especially question Counts-Posted and Garcías Ortes possible and favor the interests of the government. ”

Tellado, for the PP, wanted to emphasize the rush of the Executive for carrying out “in record time” this reform “as a shot, because it needs it” to defend its interests and “act against the Judiciary and the rule of law as a single and maximum priority”. And there he concluded his conviction that both « the Bolaños command » and « the Leire command «  They work in a coordinated manner, referring to the former socialist militant involved in recordings that question the work and investigations of the UCO and the Civil Guard that affect the Government, the President and the PSOE.

The amendments of totality of PP and Vox will be rejected this Thursday in the Plenary, and the deadline for presenting partial amendments will be closed, according to various parliamentary sources, 24 hours later, on Friday. It is a very fast deadline, which is usually put into practice when the government on duty has very insured its support, almost unanimously, as happened with the ELA Law and others of that tenor.

In the Executive, however, they argue that it is essential to accelerate this process because in it it is sought with amendments an extraordinary and “historical” call of the public employment offer of places of judges and prosecutors and the process of stabilization and regularization of substitute judges required by the European Commission to avoid a millionaire sanction to Spain. In the next three years they intend to offer 1,500 places.

Tellado does not give credit to any of those arguments and cataloged as very “suspicious” in itself that speed when the government itself maintains for different reasons up to 40 laws stopped in presentations and commissions for fouls of support and frozen other thirty of those promoted by the PP itself.