The strike started yesterday Monday by officials of the Administration of Justice to demand a salary increase has fully affected this Tuesday the trial of the Gürtel case that sits the former Valencian president Francisco Camps on the bench and that has had to be suspended for at least a week .
The National Court had planned to resume the trial on Tuesday for this piece of the macro-cause, related to allegedly irregular awards to the Gürtel plot in the Valencian Community, although the president of the court, José Antonio Mora Alarcón, has announced that it will not be possible celebrate it due to the strikes called by officials.
"Unfortunately, I have to inform you that we will not be able to carry out the trial sessions this week due to the civil servants' strike, whose stoppage begins right now at 10:00 a.m.," he told the lawyers who have gone to the headquarters that the court has in the Madrid town of San Fernando de Henares.
For the time being, the trial, which was to continue this week with more witnesses, has been suspended "sine die", without prejudice to the fact that "the intention" of the court is to resume it next week, although, as stated by the president It depends on "what happens" with the strikes called.
Justice officials began an indefinite strike on Monday with stoppages to demand a "decent" salary increase in line with that agreed with the lawyers, who staged their own strike for more than two months and which resulted in an increase of between 430 and 450 euros gross more per month.
The convening unions estimated the follow-up of the first day of protests at 85%, while the Ministry of Justice lowered it to 15.03% (over the total number of officials), a figure only referring to the central bodies and the territories that The jurisdiction of Justice has not been transferred: Murcia, Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, the Balearic Islands, Ceuta and Melilla.
There are 45,000 court officials who are called to strike by CSIF, STAJ, CCOO and UGT.
The strikes, scheduled every day between 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., will continue indefinitely and, in addition, tomorrow, Wednesday, there will be a general strike throughout the day and a "big demonstration" in Madrid that will start on Ministry of Justice.
