Editorial: El Mundo

• The majority support for the judges and prosecutors' strike reflects concern about the Government's reforms.
• 75% of judges and prosecutors joined the strike, shattering the image of normality the Government wants to project.
• The judicial and prosecutorial career reforms pose a risk to judicial independence.
• The convening associations are protesting against the erosion of judicial independence, not against the scholarship program.
• The EU requires Spain to end interim status in Justice, but not to make the 1,000 substitute judges and prosecutors permanent.

Conclusion: A depoliticized Justice and independent Prosecution Office is needed, but the Government seems to be going in the opposite direction.

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