BE coordinator Mariana Mortagua said this Friday that the government, despite being in control, can and must address the problems with the working conditions of judicial officials, accusing the executive of not keeping its promises.
Mariana Mortagua joined this Friday in solidarity with the concentration of these workers in the Justice Campus in Lisbon, which earned the gratitude of the President of the Union of Judicial Servants, António Marsala.
“The government promised that it would solve the problems in 2023. The government came to power at the end of 2023, it had a year to solve problems and it managed to introduce a law, the problem is that the law it introduces is disrespectful to these people,” he criticized.
According to the leader of the BU, “the government did not make promises regarding the working conditions of judicial officials because it did not want to.”
“You can still do it, and it was important that these promises were kept to the professionals, the judicial officials, as well as other professionals who guarantee public services in Portugal,” he challenged.
According to Mariana Mortagua, the fact that the government is in power cannot serve as an excuse, since “the promise was broken.”
“The government made promises and didn’t deliver, and we don’t want those promises to be forgotten,” he said.
The leader of the bloc believes that “these people are right in their demands” and “we need to remember their reasons.”
“This is one of the electoral commitments of the Bloc de Esquerda, because it is easy to talk about justice, it is easy to talk about how long these processes will take, but it is difficult when the time comes to take bold and decisive action to change the situation.” how the judicial system works,” he condemned, noting that some of these measures “concern specifically the working conditions of bailiffs.”
About a hundred members of the judiciary demonstrated this Friday at the Justice Campus in Lisbon and demanded answers to their demands, organizing a strike that, according to the union, was attended by about 80% of participants throughout the country.
A strike organized by the Union of Judicial Servants (SFJ) left Lisbon’s Central Criminal Court without staff on Friday morning during working hours. The pattern, according to SFJ President Antonio Marsala, is easily repeated. in other parts of the country daily, given the shortage of professionals.
When asked about the latest news about TAP, Mortagua said that she had already had the opportunity to comment on the airline the day before and that “there has been a commission of inquiry and that all the news that comes out today has been carefully studied and mentioned during the commission of inquiry.” “
“Today I would like to focus on justice. Justice is too important to always be distracted by the topic of the day, and today I want to talk about justice from a point of view that is rarely talked about, namely from the point of view of its workers,” he explained.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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