What does Carrizosa do in the trial against Ábalos?
Citizens makes a bet on the courts and is involved in the trial of the alleged corruption plot, but also in that of the DANA to the Valencian Country
BarcelonaThis piece, originally published on August 1, 2025, has been updated this Tuesday, April 7, 2026.Outside of institutions after a free fall that has wiped out the formation, Ciudadanos is once again emerging away from parliaments. The orange party has made a bet in the courts and is appearing as popular prosecution in the two main cases around which politics in the State revolves: the Ábalos case of alleged corruption of the PSOE and the Spanish government, and the case concerning the management of the DANA in the Valencian Country. These are moves calculated to the millimeter that once again catapult the former leader in Catalonia Carlos Carrizosa to the forefront of the scandal of the trading of protected housing in Alicante for people trusted by the PP and municipal officialsthe scandal of the marketing of protected housing in Alicante for people trusted by the PP and municipal officialsaccepted at the end of July last year
accepted at the end of July last yearthe scandal of the trading of protected housing in Alicante for people trusted by the PP and municipal officials.
The appearance in the Ábalos case was accepted at the end of July last year, while that of the dana was accepted at the end of March 2025. The former Valencian deputy Mamen Peris, a former candidate for the territory, is part of the legal team handling the defense in both cases, but in the Ábalos plot it is Carrizosa who accompanies her, after his return to law after abandoning politics, as this newspaper explained. Of the case affecting the socialists, Ciudadanos is not part of the section that falls under the National Court, but it is part of the one that depends on the Supreme Court – initially, it was a single case, but in September it was bifurcated.
Carrizosa continues to participate as any member in the party, and now more so, with this legal assignment, which takes him back to his beginnings when he put his experience as a lawyer at the service of the party. Ciudadanos, however, has to face the legal costs that these two cases entail, in addition to the bail that they have had to deposit for being popular prosecution: in the case of Valencia, six thousand euros. But while they remain alive, albeit on life support, they have opted for the courts with the warning that "the aspiration is to return".