76% of the lawyers of the Administration of Justice (LAJ) who have participated in the vote on Monday have been in favor of accepting in tomorrow's meeting with the Ministry the proposal that Pilar Llop's team put on the table, which would end the strike they have maintained since last January 24 in search of salary improvements that compensate for the workload assumed in recent years.

As reported by the Illustrious National College of Lawyers of the Administration of Justice, the majority support "supports the strike committee so that tomorrow, in the meeting scheduled with the Ministry at 11.00 am, the agreement that ends the strike can be signed (...) once some terms of the final agreement are clarified that remain to be qualified."

This Monday, as announced last Friday, assemblies have been held throughout the country in which "detailed accounts" of the Ministry's proposal to the LAJ have been given. The National College has shown its "satisfaction with the development, without incident, of this voting day."

Of the 2,013 votes cast, 1,524 - representing 76% - were in favour; 421 against -21%- and 68 abstentions -3%-, according to the data handled by the College of LAJ.

It is expected that the strike committee will sit down tomorrow at the table with Justice to accept the proposal made to them. Tomorrow's meeting will be the fourth meeting since negotiations resumed on March 17 – with the Ministry of Finance also involved – after the break occurred at the end of February as a result of a series of meetings that the lawyers described as "fruitless".

POSSIBILITY OF AGREEMENT

The agreement seems to come after more than two months of strike in which, according to the data of the convening associations, some 356,000 trials and hearings have been suspended, some 424,000 demands have been stopped and have remained stopped in the accounts of appropriations up to 1,280 million euros.

In these nine weeks, the convening associations - the Progressive Union of Lawyers (UPSJ), the Illustrious National College of LAJ and the Independent Association of Lawyers (AInLAJ) - have registered a participation of between 85% and 73%, while the Ministry has observed between 33.92% and 18.9% of follow-up.

Since January 24, the LAJ demonstrated twice at the doors of the Ministry to demand that they be compensated on the payroll for the workload assumed in recent years; they asked for the resignation of the Secretary of State for Justice, Antonio Tonxtu Rodríguez, and that of the minister herself.

During the strike, the head of the Ministry recalled the measures adopted in the last year in favor of the LAJ and asked the strike committee to move away from "maximalist" positions and to present "realistic" proposals. The Secretary of State went on to say that it was a "political" strike that did not pursue any wage demand and stressed that they already earned between 40,000 and 60,000 euros a year.

The height of the conflict came after the first meeting this year. That February 17, both parties sat at the table for more than 15 hours – with dawn included – and got up with mutual reproaches for maintaining immovable positions.

The road traveled has led them to the meeting that will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, where it is expected to end the struggle that – beyond the indefinite strike and demonstrations this year – accumulated punctual stoppages in 2021 and 2022.

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