The Government has announced that in the coming weeks it will activate a "macro-application" to cover 500 new positions for judges and 200 for prosecutors, the creation of which has been formalized this very Friday.
This was stated by the minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts, Félix Bolaños, during the press conference following the extraordinary Council of Ministers.
Bolaños specified that the Executive has given the green light to these 700 positions with a 2027 horizon and emphasized that they entail an increase of 7.8% in the judicial workforce and 6.6% in the Public Prosecutor's Office.
After stressing that this is an unprecedented strengthening, the minister recalled that they are added to another 700 positions approved months ago for 2026, bringing the total to 1,000 new judge positions and 400 prosecutor positions.
"We already have a macro-application under way and also this creation of judge, magistrate and prosecutor positions that we have carried out today will result, in the coming weeks, in one of 700 positions so that all those people who are preparing for the opposition or who want to access through the fourth turn—that is, that they be jurists with a long career and who have a vocation to join the judicial career," he said.
The head of Justice pointed out that it is "a very broad call, undoubtedly the largest in democracy, to continue reinforcing Spanish justice," with the aim of ensuring that "it provides agile, fast and fair responses in reasonable times to citizens when they have a judicial procedure".
"Justice, of course, is a power of the State, but it must, above all, be a public service so that citizens feel that their rights are protected within a reasonable time, with a modern and flexible administration of justice," he added.
MORE STRENGTHENING FOR THE CIVIL AND SOCIAL AREAS
Bolaños detailed that the assignment of the positions has been designed taking into account criteria such as workload, levels of litigation and population, in addition to proposals from the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), the Public Prosecutor's Office, the autonomous communities with transferred justice competences, and the High Courts.
Specifically, of the 500 new judicial positions, most are aimed at strengthening the Civil jurisdiction, with 81 positions in the Courts of First Instance and 61 in the Provincial Courts, and that of the Social area, with 104 new positions.
The minister has added that the criminal jurisdiction will be strengthened with 96 new positions and the mixed bodies —Provincial Hearings and Courts of Instance of provinces and smaller judicial districts— with 87, while another 30 will be assigned territorially, linked to a specific area but with flexibility to be relocated as workloads evolve.
In addition, 18 of the new positions are allocated to the sections on Violence against Women, which represents an increase of 62.8% in two years, rising from 121 to 197 positions.
The sections on Violence against Children and Adolescents total six additional positions, the National Court incorporates four more, and the High Courts of Justice, 19 new positions.
By autonomous communities, the ones that concentrate the greatest reinforcement, according to the Ministry of Justice, are those with the greatest need for personnel: Andalucía (94), Cataluña (94), Madrid (74) and Comunidad Valenciana (53).
As for the 200 new prosecutor positions, he has said that they are distributed among all the communities and the central bodies, with the most benefited being Cataluña, with 47 new positions (+9.9%), Andalucía with 31 (+5.6%) and Madrid with 26 (+6.9%).