Ione Belarra has asked the Supreme Court that the lawsuit filed by the retired magistrate Manuel García Castellón for calling him “corrupt” stay in this organ. The leader of Pode Conservative magistrate Antonio Narváez, with whom he claims that the High Court cannot back now and derive the claim to an ordinary court.
Belarra responds in this way to the requirement of the Supreme who raised his competence on this matter to clarify whether Belarra uttered the insults in his status as a deputy (and, therefore, agreed to the high court) or as a Citizen Rasa. Belarra adds to the criteria of the Prosecutor’s Office and the plaintiff itself to ask that the matter be resolved in the High Court.
It should be remembered that the national audience magistrate sued him for violation of his right to honor when calling him “prevaricador” and “corrupt” In his personal account of X. These are manifestations that he subsequently repeated and earned him an extension of the demand, for which he asks for a compensation of 240,000 euros and that he is condemned to publish the content of the sentence in his personal account of the social network where he insulted him.
Connection with your deputy position
“Today the BOE publishes the forced retirement of Judge García-Castellón. We said it months ago and now it is confirmed, east and other corrupt judges, who have prevarked Against those who defend another idea of Spain, they will go from Rositas without any sanction thanks to the PSOE. Shame, “said the leader of the purple formation in her social networks in September 2024, coinciding with the retirement of the National Court magistrate.
García Castellón, who directed causes that affected Podemos (such as the Villarejo case) highlighted in his demand the media scope of his comment for his status as deputy and secretary of a political party. In addition, he said that the accusations were “Absolutely false” and that “inexcusably” threatened their honor and prestige.
Now, after the previous hearing held between the parties, he claims that The person cannot be dissociated of the position he holds and that his message was continuation of the words previously pronounced in the Congress of Deputies. “There is a clear material connection between the message posted on social networks with its parliamentary activity,” says the writing to which the reason has had access.
In it he remembers that the beginning of his message on social networks appealed to his previous intervention in the lower house of June 26 of last year, in which he alluded to the “dirty judicial war” of the Popular Party against the President of the Government. “Are Judges García Castellón and Escalonilla for accounts for The persecution of Podemos (…). I don’t need to answer that, I already tell him. None of these judges who have participated in the dirty war will be accountable after this agreement, “he said. The agreement referred to, according to his defense in this letter, was the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) agreed now a year ago between the PP and the PSOE after five years of blocking.
Judgment of a conservative magistrate
For all this, defend The “material connection” of your accusations With the exercise of its functions and also says that the issue related to the competence of the high court has been treated and resolved, so its right to effective judicial protection would be violated if it now changed their minds.
In fact, Belarra (who also accused of prevailing the magistrates of this high court who condemned Alberto Rodríguez) refers to an alleged violation of the principle of intangibility of judicial resolutions. To this end, it resorts to the recent resolution of the Constitutional Court of which the former conservative magistrate of this body, Antonio Narváez, was speaking, on an appeal that filed Javier López Madrid. Bankia’s businessman and former councilor denounced violation of his fundamental rights with the instruction of the Punic case, that, Paradoxically, magistrate Manuel García Castellón instructed. The TC dismissed the resource and endorsed the extension of the research related to the box B of the Madrid PP.
The defense of the deputy of Pode The intangibility of firm resolutions; This is, from the ban to the judges to review their judgment made in a specific case, even if they understood that the decision does not conform to reality. Thus, he concludes that the resolution of the supreme for which he admitted the lawsuit of García Castellón after verifying his competence, enjoys the authority of judged.
He attacked the TC in 2022: “It is foreign to the constitutional order”
Although Belarra now goes to pronouncements of the Court of Guarantees, in the recent past he has lashed harshly at the same when he was mostly conservative sensitivity. Specifically, in an interview granted to El Diario.es in December 2022, he ruled on the decision of the Constitutional Court to paralyze the legal reform of the Government of Pedro Sánchez to unlock his renewal.
This ruling, which went ahead with the votes of the conservative block (including Narváez’s) was, in the words of Belarra, “Unpublished” and alien “to the constitutional order”. “It is out of legality in Spain. It is part of a strategy that is coup by the right and has to do with the fact that the Popular Party and also with the media and judicial right, which do not respect what was voted in the 2019 elections,” he said then.