Overview

• Jacinto José Pérez Benítez formally took office as president of the Audiencia Provincial de Pontevedra and as a member of the TSXG’s governing body.
• He said soaring civil litigation is pushing the system to the brink, with Vigo posting Galicia’s highest and most complex caseload.
• He requested the creation of additional judge positions, urgent relief for Vigo’s saturated mercantile section, and adequate staffing for violence-against-women sections.
• He argued it is currently impossible to align case intake with resolutions and urged expanding the first and third civil sections and increasing second‑instance capacity in criminal matters.
• He highlighted structural shortfalls in first‑instance courts in Pontevedra, Vigo, Ponteareas and Vilagarcía, as TSXG president Ignacio Picatoste echoed the warnings and noted rising penal caseloads and lackluster results from prior streamlining measures.