The Union of Prosecutors of the Public Ministry (SMMP) denounces delays and refusals in the payment of the duties of the magistrates and admits to proceed with legal means to hold the Ministry of Justice responsible.
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06/11/2026
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O Union of prosecutors (SMMP) again today denounced the delays and refusals in the payment of accumulations of duties of the magistrates and admitted to proceed with legal measures or means to hold the Ministry of Justice responsible.
Today, in a statement, the SMMP recalls an inquiry by the Union that indicated that in 2024 they spent an average of 216 days between the opinion of the Supreme Council of the Public Prosecutor (CSMP) and the dispatch of the Ministry of Justice (MJ), and another 479 days until the effective payment.
“ These delays are now added to the increasingly frequent refusal to pay: the MJ claims that the deliberations of the CSMP are invalid by factual error and by law and that they are in violation of law”, says the Union.
The SMMP rejects “absolutely” this understanding, considering that “the government is not competent to review decisions of a constitutionally autonomous body and that, in doing so, it disregards the autonomy of the prosecutor” (MP).
According to the Union, “it is not for the Ministry of Justice to control the substantive assumptions of accumulation, nor does it have the power to review, monitor, syndicate or declare the invalidity of CSMP deliberations that have determined accumulation”
“ Nor is it up to the Ministry of Justice to deny the effects of the deliberations of the CSMP when they were not challenged by you to the STA [Supreme Administrative Court]”, stresses SMMP.
For the SMMP, “it is not necessary to impose on the magistrates this increase of work, without being, due and timely, compensated by effort”.
Thus, given the lack of magistrates and the refusal of the MJ to open a special training course, the SMMP urges the CSMP to rethink the use of accumulations to meet permanent needs.
The SMMP also calls on the CSMP to take appropriate action in the face of “this breach of CSMP’s own competences”.
The Union also admits to moving forward with legal means to hold the MJ responsible for this “disrespect and affront to the most basic rights of magistrates – to be paid for their work”.