Alvaro Carvajal Madrid

Madrid

Updated Friday, February 2, 2024-13:53

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The general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, has harshly attacked judge Manuel García-Castellón, whom she has accused of exercising a "judicial dictatorship" for the way in which he is conducting the investigation into Democratic Tsunami in the National Court, and in which he attributes the ultimate objective of derailing the Amnesty Law.

This was stated this Friday in an open intervention before the Podemos State Citizen Council, the highest body between congresses, where he not only announced the results of the primaries, but also entered forcefully into the issue of amnesty and the judges.

Belarra has presented the amnesty debate as a dichotomy between "democracy or judicial dictatorship." "What Judge García Castellón is doing, who is nothing more than another PP official and who is denounced by Podemos for prevarication against our party, is judicial dictatorship," he assured.

In this sense, he has warned that the judge "thinks he has the right to rule more than Parliament." "And that," he stressed, "is very serious." Well, for her, what he represents is a "frontal attack on Spanish democracy."

Belarra has demanded "unity" among "all democrats" to confront this "savage offensive", presenting her rebellion against the work of judges as a defense of democracy. "You can agree or not with the amnesty but Parliament has the right to legislate," she stressed.

For this reason, he has warned the PSOE that it must act with "ideological clarity" and not, as it has been acting now, doing so "without conviction" just because "it needs the votes of Junts."

For the general secretary of Podemos, Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE are "taking too much risk" thinking that "only they are in charge", as if they had an absolute majority. Hence, he has demanded more determination and clarity to face social measures, whether in relation to rent or food prices.

After a few weeks in which she sees the Government showing its "weakness", Belarra has regretted, on the one hand, that the PSOE is mired in "disorientation" and, on the other, that in the coalition Executive only one party is in charge "without ideological compass", in a criticism that is implicitly directed at Sumar and his influence.