The Government has today approved in the Council of Ministers the urgent processing of two royal decrees with a new creation of 700 judicial and fiscal seats by 2027. A first Royal Decree with which the Government will create, for the second time, 500 seats for judges, which will mean an expansion of the judicial plant of 7.8%. And a second Royal Decree with which 200 positions of prosecutors will be created and the current staffing of the Fiscal Ministry will be increased by 6.6%. In the Principality of Asturias, the Government will create 8 seats for judges (+4.8% compared to the current staffing) and 3 for prosecutors (+5.3%) by 2027. In two years (2025 and 2026), 16 judicial seats have been created in this community (+10.1%). The creation of 700 new places follows the path of expansion of the judicial and fiscal plants undertaken by the Government and is part of the transformation of Justice promoted by the Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts, which combines procedural, organizational and digital reforms to provide this public service with the necessary tools to face current and future challenges..
Judicial plant in Asturias
The judicial plant of the Principality of Asturias will grow by 4.8%. Of the 8 new judicial seats for Asturias, two are for the Provincial Hearings of Oviedo and Gijón and five for Courts of Instance of these two localities and Mieres. Finally, a place will be of territorial ascription (it can be assigned by the corresponding High Court of Justice to cover different needs of the Administration of Justice).
500 seats of judges for all of Spain
Of the 500 new positions of judges for the whole of Spain, 172 are to strengthen civil jurisdiction, 109 for social jurisdiction and 69 for criminal jurisdiction. 87 seats will be allocated to joint bodies (Provincial Hearings and Courts of Instance) located in smaller provinces and localities and another 42 are territorial secondment places, intended for a territory, but movable according to changes in workloads.
In addition, 11 new places will be allocated to the Violence Against Women sections. It should be noted that this legislature has represented a great advance in the specialization in violence against women, with an increase of 55.4% in the number of places, from 121 to 188. 6 more places are to reinforce the sections on Violence against Children and Adolescents. In a new way, 8 seats are for new Presidencies freed from Courts of Instance. These are places that already exist in the large Spanish cities and that exclusively perform functions of unification of criteria, coordination and organization. Now they are also created in Murcia, Almería, Córdoba, Granada, A Coruña, Vigo, Santander and Valladolid.
Finally, 4 seats are created in the National High Court. In total, they represent an expansion of the judicial plant of 7.8%. The staff of the Public Prosecutor’s Office grows by 5.3% in the Principality of Asturias The creation of 3 new positions of prosecutors for the Principality of Asturias will mean a growth of the staff of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in this community of 5.3%, from 56 to 59 members. In total, 200 new positions of prosecutors will be created and distributed among all the autonomous communities and central bodies. The distribution of the new positions of judges and prosecutors has been carried out according to objective criteria (workload, litigation and population). The Ministry will transfer it to the General Council of the Judiciary, the Public Prosecutor ' s Office, autonomous communities with transferred competence and higher courts of justice to hear their proposals and contributions.