Gabriela Bravo has advocated this morning for a "judicial federalism" that allows the autonomies, as a State, to have greater capacity and competences to be able to define the model of Justice, its internal and territorial organization. He has claimed it in the conference that he has given this morning at the Nueva Economía Forum in a speech in which he has assessed that "more shared justice implies a greater role for the autonomous communities in the creation of judicial units and in the organization to alleviate workloads, because if the communities are a State, we must be so with all the consequences".
Bravo, which was presented by the former Minister of the Interior, Antonio Camacho, pointed out that the autonomous communities, despite having very limited participation in decision-making that affect these matters, "we are the protagonists of the final result that we have to finance, being the visible window to which citizen complaints are addressed". The current lawyers' strike "on which we do not have the capacity to intervene to try to resolve the conflict, but we will suffer its consequences, is a clear example of this paradox."
In this context, he has also assessed that co-governance implies a more active participation in the design of the judicial plant, as well as in the elaboration of the procedural laws "that are currently being elaborated and all this from the permanent dialogue between all the actors and legal operators". For this reason, he has defended a "judicial federalism for which it is necessary to reform the Organic Law of the Judiciary that establishes and increases the participation of the autonomies in the governance of Justice."
It has also announced the construction of a second City of Justice in Valencia that will bear the name of Ascensión Xirivella, the first woman in Spain with a law degree who was able to register to practice as a lawyer, and who was Valencian. The councilor has qualified that despite the fact that the current City of Justice is only 18 years old, "it has already become small and there is no room for more judicial bodies. The Administration is evaluating the possibility of building it on the land behind the current City of Justice and that are property of the Generalitat". She added that "it is frustrating that a building that was going to be of the future has become too small in barely 20 years."
