The government has greenlit the creation of 69 judge and 32 prosecutor positions in the Community of Madrid. This measure signifies an 8.8% rise in judicial staff and a 9.38% increase in prosecutors, constituting the largest single-year creation of judicial positions in Spain's history, surpassing even those created in the last decade.
Nationally, 500 judicial and 200 prosecutor positions have been approved, totaling 700. The record expansion of the national judicial staff is 8.5%, while the prosecutor staff increase reaches 7.13%. Never before have more than 100 new prosecutor positions been created in a single year.
Minister Félix Bolaños described the measure as a "historic milestone," emphasizing that no previous government had approved an expansion of this magnitude or allocated such resources to modernize the Public Justice Service.
The initiative is part of the Justice transformation driven by the Ministry of the Presidency, Justice, and Relations with the Courts, combining procedural, organizational, and digital reforms.
Within the Community of Madrid, the 69 new judge positions will be distributed among courts of first instance (47), provincial courts (12), territorial courts (9), and the High Court of Justice (TSJ) (1). Courts in municipalities such as Madrid, Alcalá de Henares, Alcobendas, Alcorcón, Aranjuez, Collado Villalba, Colmenar Viejo, Coslada, Fuenlabrada, Getafe, Leganés, Majadahonda, Móstoles, Navalcarnero, Parla, Torrejón de Ardoz, and Valdemoro will be reinforced.
Nationally, out of the 500 judicial positions, 368 are for courts of first instance and 96 for collegiate bodies such as Provincial Courts (76), High Courts of Justice (9), the Supreme Court (7), and the National Court (4). The total judicial staff, with 5,887 positions, grows by 8.5%.
The most benefited communities are Andalusia (95), Catalonia (91), Madrid (69), and the Valencian Community (58). The civil jurisdiction is the most reinforced, followed by the social jurisdiction.
This expansion is made possible by the Law on Efficiency of the Public Justice Service, which replaces old single-judge courts with more efficient courts of first instance, reducing the cost of creating positions.
Madrid's prosecutor staff grows by 9.38% with 32 new positions. Nationally, 200 positions are created, benefiting Andalusia (38), Catalonia (35), and Madrid (32). Murcia sees the highest percentage growth (9.7%).
The new prosecutor positions will strengthen areas such as Hate and Discrimination Crimes, Human Trafficking and Immigration, Violence Against Women, Fiscal Inspection, International Criminal Cooperation, and Computer Crime, in addition to creating a Senior Prosecutor position for the Data Protection Unit.
The distribution of these positions was based on objective criteria such as workload, litigation rates, and population, considering needs communicated by the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), the Prosecutor's Office, and autonomous communities with transferred competencies.
