These will be the judges who will decide whether to indict Carlos Mazón.

ValenciaThe three judges of the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the High Court of Justice (TSJ) of the Valencian Community who will decide whether to investigate former regional president Carlos Mazón—who retains parliamentary immunity as a member of the Valencian Parliament—have been identified. They are Manuel Baeza, president of the chamber and of the Valencian TSJ; Judge María Pía Calderón, who will be the rapporteur; and Judge José Francisco Ceres. On the table is the request from Judge Nuria Ruiz Tobarra of Catarroja, who argues that the politician from Alicante should be charged with manslaughter, negligent injury, and failure to render aid. Before deliberating, however, they must receive the arguments from the Public Prosecutor's Office, the defense, and the plaintiffs, who have until Monday to submit their submissions. Sources close to the case have told ARA that the three judges are "very conservative" and have emphasized that Baeza and Ceres belong to the right-wing Professional Association of Magistrates. Others, on the contrary, have pointed out that, beyond their ideology, they are "very technically qualified" to assume such a crucial role. We now take a brief look at their careers. The most senior is Manuel Baeza, who assumed the position of president of the Valencian High Court in 2025. However, he had already been serving as interim president for some time following the retirement of his predecessor, Pilar de la Oliva. Beside him is José Francisco Ceres Montes, best known for taking on a significant part of the investigation into the Valencian branch of the Gürtel corruption case. In 2009, he made the controversial decision to dismiss the case against Francisco Camps, a move that was overturned by the Supreme Court with a major rebuke of his actions. Conversely, two years later, he reopened the investigation and brought dozens of former high-ranking members of the Valencian PP party to trial for their involvement in the corruption scheme.

With a less public profile is María Pía Cristina Calderón Cuadrado, a professor of procedural law at the University of Valencia. She was appointed to the High Court of Justice of Valencia in 2011 through the pool of jurists of recognized prestige and was part of the panel that accepted the reasoned statement to investigate former Valencian Vice President and former leader of Compromís, Mónica Oltra. Calderón was also the investigating judge in the Blasco case, when the 21st Investigating Court, after investigating the scheme created within the Ministry of Cooperation, presented the reasoned statement against Rafael Blasco, who had served as a PP minister in seven administrations. Blasco was ultimately sentenced to eight years in prison. The magistrate was also the rapporteur for the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office's complaint regarding the holding of the Formula 1 race in Valencia against former president Francisco Camps, who at the time still enjoyed parliamentary immunity. However, the case was eventually dismissed by the 2nd Investigating Court of Valencia.