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The

has approved this Tuesday the royal decree that changes access to the teaching function.

At the last moment he has made a substantial change, at the request of the

.

For the first time in history, teachers will be allowed to become civil servants through three different routes: either through an opposition with qualifying tests, or through other non-eliminatory exams, or through a merit contest without going through an opposition.

This new system is rejected outright by the unions, who warn that it will generate "chaos" due to the "organizational difficulties" involved in participating in three different selection processes.

The purpose of this decree is to reduce the high temporary rate in teaching, which is now

, and convert it to

by 2024 as required by the EU.

For this, in December an extraordinary process was agreed with the unions in the years

,

and

that opened two paths to obtain a permanent position.

On the one hand, for the first time it was allowed not to take the opposition exam and access simply through a merit contest for long-term interns, those who had occupied a place before

.

On the other hand, the opposition system was changed so that the exams were not eliminatory and thus give more facilities to the applicants.

It had been agreed that all the other candidates would enter the public career through this itinerary, both those who entered for the stabilization positions and those who entered through the ordinary route;

that is to say, by newly created places or by replacement places, destined to cover fundamentally those who retire.

But now the Council of State has ruled that those who enter through the ordinary route cannot take these non-qualifying exams, but have to follow the traditional system, which says that if you do not pass the first phase you cannot go on to the next.

"There is no room for extension of this transitional regime to selective procedures other than [stabilization procedures]," says this government advisory body in its opinion on the royal decree that modifies the regulations for admission to teaching bodies.

"This implies that, without adequate and sufficient legal coverage, it is intended to submit these second selective procedures for entry into the public teaching function, which will be projected on positions 'outside' the stabilization process,

And he adds: "The reason is obvious: a special and specific system cannot be extended, which supposes an exception admitted by constitutional jurisprudence, beyond the specific circumstance that legitimizes the legislator for its articulation."

The

has paid attention to this observation and has established, therefore, three different processes to which both recently graduated opponents and interim candidates with years of experience may attend:

The unions do not like that there are three different ways to be a civil servant.

When the PP governed, a stabilization process was carried out in 2017 and there was a single procedure: with qualifying tests in the opposition, but there were not so many differences.

, from CCOO, says that it will "generate organizational difficulties", in addition to "a situation of notable inequality and insecurity".

"A strange element has been introduced that we had never seen, since stabilization positions had never been distinguished from replacement positions. There will be more complexity in management. It will be a mess because two types of courts have to be named and there are Autonomous Communities that already have problems to find one. If the different places are called successively, a process that now lasts a month will last for three or four months. If they are called in parallel, the applicants will only be able to apply for one and will have to choose blindly. If the Autonomous Communities do not call for a replacement or stabilization rate in any of the courses and they are kept until 2025, the temporality would not be reduced according to the objective set and those who do not have experience will not be able to compete on equal terms. anyone," Garcia explains.

Contradictory with the Secretary of State for Public Administration

CCOO is studying adopting legal measures and initiating other types of protest actions against these "incomprehensible and very serious changes that worsen and hinder the management of stabilization processes."

Provides a resolution of the

, dated April 1, which is contradictory to the new system.

This text says:

"We don't like change," says

, from UGT.

"We disagree with what has been introduced in relation to the application only in stabilization positions, since it generates different procedures to enter the same teaching bodies. To date, the procedure has been the same for all positions, regardless of its nature, and this is how it came out of the agreements and negotiation of the Non-University Teaching Personnel Committee with the union organizations.This means that we are especially demanding with the Autonomous Communities to determine the number of places to stabilize, if the objective is really to be achieved. established by law: reduction to 8% of the interim rate in the educational field".

Mario Gutiérrez

, responsible for Education, says that the change shows "the lack of leadership" of the Ministry and "a complete failure" of its policies, since "they have had to rectify".

He recalls that all the Autonomous Communities except Catalonia and the Basque Country have already exposed the Government by calling the oppositions this year for the old system and not waiting for the new royal decree to be approved.

The teachers' unions CCOO, UGT and CSIF demonstrated together in February in the first educational protest against the Government, accusing the Ministry of "incompetence", "sloppiness", "laziness" and "lack of leadership" for having taken so long to approve the decree and not having imposed on the regional governments that in this year's call they were governed by the new criteria.

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