The PPdeG has rejected in the Galician Parliament a motion from the BNG that proposed, among other points, demanding the expansion of the judicial staff in Galicia from the Xunta. The popular party maintains that the priority is not to increase bodies, but to incorporate more judges, and holds the central government responsible for creating "obstacles" by "imposing a state law without consensus".
The initiative of the Bloque, defended this Tuesday by Iago Tabarés, proposed urging the Xunta to promote with the central Executive an increase in regional powers regarding judicial staff and the transfer of functions related to the body of Legal Officers of the Administration of Justice.
The text also called for expanding the judicial staff in those districts where the volume of incoming cases and pending matters justified it, as well as reversing the regionalization of the sections for Violence against Women of the Courts of Instance of Ourense and Santiago.
Furthermore, the motion called for actions for the "dignification and improvement of the free legal aid service in Galicia and the conditions of the professionals who provide it". Tabarés criticized that professionals "continue to provide a service for which they receive no benefit", something he attributed to "improvisation and lack of dialogue" and to the fact that the Xunta "does not care about the administration of justice".
Separation of powers and cross-criticism
In the section relating to the separation of powers, the BNG demanded that it be respected "scrupulously", "refraining from taking any action or making any statement that, exceeding the exercise of the right to freedom of expression or healthy criticism, are aimed at limiting or conditioning judicial independence".
The PPdeG deputy Paula Prado replied to the nationalists that it is incoherent to demand such separation when, in her opinion, they "support a government that created sewers to act against the Rule of Law".
Debate on judges and powers
Prado stressed that the powers over the judicial staff are "those established by the organic law of the judiciary that the BNG supported" and argued that "it is useless to increase officials" if those who must resolve "are the judges".
Regarding the sections on violence against women, he recalled that it is "the Ministry's responsibility" and encouraged the Bloc to address the state department so that "instead of providing escorts to those extorting in the PSOE's sewers," it reinforces protection in Galicia, where, he said, there are "13 police officers a day to protect victims."
"The increase must be in judges. Let's see when they get those 19 judges needed for Galicia, but the Ministry is focused on other things, it is protecting its government, its president, its ministers, the director general of the civil guard, the attorney general, and all the PSOE's sewers," the popular parliamentarian added.
The BNG demands that justice be a priority
In her reply, Tabarés admitted the relevance of the judiciary, but reminded the PPdeG spokesperson that "in the middle of M. Rajoy's term, no court position was created" and that now "the judiciary and the judicial office are divided."
"Of course, judge positions are important, but so are management positions, and today we have a hundred and some positions less than we had at the beginning of 2025," she reproached, before urging the PP to "stop trying to control justice through the back door" and to make it "their national priority," opening up to "dialogue with the state administration to exercise those responsibilities."
Criticism from the PSdeG to the Xunta for lack of investment
The PSdeG deputy Paloma Castro agreed with the need to expand the judicial staff in Galicia and held the Xunta responsible for "lack of investment and acting behind the backs" of legal operators.
Castro defended the socialist amendment, accepted by the BNG, which incorporated measures such as promoting teleworking to "improve quality of life and reduce public spending," developing a judicial infrastructure plan adapted to the new model, and seeking political and professional "consensus" around these reforms.