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The Supreme Court prevents popular accusations from entering Ábalos’ interrogation, except for the PP

The decision of the Supreme Court magistrate, Leopoldo Puente, to unify the seven popular accusations presented in the case opened by the Koldo case and appointing the PP as representative of all of them has generated strong discomfort among the others (Vox, Manos Liminas union, Liberum Association, Hazteoir.org Association, Association of Democratic Lawyers for Europe and the political party Iustitia Europa), given that the judge does not has allowed them to be present at the statement of José Luis Ábalos, which takes place from 10 in the morning.

The accusations have presented written statements demanding to be present at Ábalos’s statement and have gone to the Supreme Court this morning without knowing if they were going to be allowed. The accusations assumed that only the PP could ask Ábalos questions, but they hoped they would be allowed in to listen to the interrogation or, at least, be able to follow it through a screen in another room. Initially, the court has only allowed the legal team representing the PP to access the interior of the court and the others have been in the lobby waiting for the Supreme Court to make a decision. After several minutes, the judge ushered them in to verbally inform them that only the PP could enter.

The instructor has explained to them that, according to his criteria, the unification of the popular accusations implies that all actions must be carried out through the attorney and the PP lawyer, whom the magistrate has designated as representative because it was the first accusation that was presented. . From now on, as the judge has informed the accusations, the court will only notify its resolutions on the Ábalos case to the PP attorney.

“The popular accusations were present to enter the room, but all of us who are here have been denied entry, with the exception of the PP, which is the legal leadership. We are going to appeal,” Luis María Pardo, Iustitia Europa lawyer, explained to the media as he left the court. The representative of Vox, Marta Castro, has criticized the Supreme Court’s decision, which, in her opinion, “is bordering on the [mal] to do the administration of justice.” “Vox calls for the disunification of popular accusations,” he added. “It is the first time that I have encountered a ban, even on access to the room,” said Javier María Pérez Roldán, lawyer for the ultra-Catholic group Hazte Oír. Alexis Aneas, Liberum’s lawyer, considers that “it is not reasonable” that the accusations are now at the expense of what the PP wants to tell them and when it wants to tell them: “We will be in the slipstream of what the PP determines”

The conflict between the accusations and the court has delayed the start of Ábalos’s statement, which began around 10:20.