The judgments and other judicial acts suspended in Canary Islands already around 5,000 in the first two weeks of the indefinite strike that the lawyers of the Administration of Justice (LAJ) They take place throughout the country, according to the estimates of various spokespersons of the organizing organizations.
This is a figure that grows considerably every day of protest of these officials, which is motivated by the lack of a salary increase according to the greater functions and responsibilities attributed by Law 13/2009, which were removed from judges, and increased in subsequent reforms, especially in 2015, which has caused an “unbearable imbalance”, according to criticism from the Strike Committee.
And in these moments some €35 million are completely paralyzed in the so-called consignment accounts of the judicial bodies only in the Santa Cruz province Tenerife. These deposits include the money from fines, compensation to injured parties, unpaid pensions, deposits or auctions, for example.
The spokesperson for the Progressive Union of Court Clerks, Esperanza Torregrosaexplains that the trials and other judicial acts suspended up to now in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife amount to about 2,300. Of them, according to another spokesperson for the group, Adrián Rangil, some 2,200 were paralyzed in the tenerife island.
Refering to Corporate Jurisdictionthey have stopped celebrating more than 800 views that affect citizens and companies of The iron, La Gomera, The Palm and Tenerifeaim one of the representatives of the lawyers of the Administration of Justice, Antonio Revert Lazaro.
Refering to Las Palmas provincethe Justice Administration lawyer Isabella Morales remember that the trials and other judicial acts suspended they reach the 2,845 overall. Of this global amount, 1,205 correspond to lawsuits and 1,340 to other judicial proceedings. These last paralyzed acts include, for example, conciliations, statements, appearances, apud minutes, previous hearings, auctions, ratifications, releases, incidents of execution or voluntary jurisdiction.
In two weeks of strike, they have been counted in the eastern province of the Archipelago 2,206 demands that have remained unrecorded due to unemployment. And to these we must add 9,499 writings that have seen their processing stopped. In fourteen days, 2,650,879 euros have been entered into consignment accounts, which have also been immobilized by the strike.
In the opinion of Isabel Morales, “the Ministry of Justice is not aware of the damage that is being caused” with the act of protest by these officials. Like her colleagues, she does not understand the lack of dialogue on the part of the State Government.
But, in addition, he regrets that the heads of the department headed by Pilar Llop “do not even consider the strike to be important”, which implies “great contempt, in addition to insulting and attacking us, by saying that it is a political strike, that we are putschists and that we are going to starve”. This last aspect is due to the fact that, for every day they are on strike, money is deducted from their income.
In Morales’s opinion, the administration is playing “to see who can last longer and that is not acceptable for a Ministry of Justice.”
Strike follow-up
In the Canary Islands, the follow-up to the strike is above 60 percent. Thus, in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife it fluctuates between 61 and 62 percent, while in Las Palmas it fluctuates between 61 and 66%, depending on the days and the minimum services set by the Ministry. of Justice.
In the Criminal Jurisdiction, the lawyers of the Administration of Justice must go to their jobs if they have cases with preventive prisoners, executory sentences with an already convicted prisoner or actions with a person deprived of liberty (detainee), according to Adrián Rangil. The objective of the minimum services is to guarantee the fundamental rights of these citizens.
Regardless of the trials and other judicial acts already mentioned, Rangil points out that all the procedures already initiated have also been paralyzed and the lawsuits filed in recent days are not admitted, as well as any procedure that is not within the minimum services.
For this LAJ spokesperson in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, there is “the threat of total collapse of the Justice, which is already somewhat late; this can be catastrophic.” According to Adrián Rangil, it will take a long time to process all that work that accumulates these days with a certain normality. “And that we are going to have to remove it ourselves,” Isabel Morales qualifies.
In Rangil’s opinion, the attitude of the Ministry of Justice is one of “absolute silence, abandonment, passivity and lack of responsibility with its own powers, as well as with the breach of the agreements that it already signed with us in April of last year.”
