The Left Block (BE) realized that the trial of the extreme right-wing influencer Cristina Seguí, who accused the bloquist Mariana Mortagua and a former Spanish defense minister, José Bono, of having received money from Banco Espírito Santo (BES), will be resumed “now”, after being postponed last year.
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21/09/2026
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O Left Block (BE) announced this Monday that the trial of the extreme right-wing influencer Cristina Seguí, who was linked to the Spanish party Vox and accused the bloquist Mariana Mortagua and a former Spanish Minister of Defense, José Bono, of having received money from Banco Espírito Santo (BES), will be resumed “now”, after being postponed, in September last year.
“ The ‘influencer’ of extreme right Cristina Seguí will be judged for having lied about three leaders of the Block. Cristina Seguí is a far-right militant, founder of Vox, known for spreading disinformation and propaganda against the Left and feminist movements. The far right commentator invented that Mariana Mortagua would have received money from BES to protect Ricardo Salgado ", recalled BE, on social network X (Twitter).
The party pointed out that the commentator “came to the point of inventing ‘250,000 euros’ delivered to BE’s coordinator at El Corte Inglés”, and also spread “lies about the personal life of Marisa Matias and invented a false link of Pedro Filipe Soares to the government of Venezuela”.
“ The lies about the leaders of the Block were spread from the social networks of Cristina Seguí and shared by André Ventura. The trial begins now and Cristina Seguí is accused by the Portuguese prosecutor of offenses and defamation ", pointed out.
The collective headed by José Manuel Pureza also stressed that his struggle “is for equality, for human rights and for truth”, being “with these values that [are] facing the extreme right and its lies”.
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It should be remembered that the MP filed the inquiry initiated to the president of Cávez, André Ventura, for accusing the then BE Member of receiving money from BES, by republishing tweets from Cristina Seguí, published at the end of 2021. In fact, the republic led Mariana Mortagua to press charges for defamation, which gave rise to the constitution of André Ventura as defendant and to the waiver of her parliamentary immunity.
In the order, dated March 3, 2023, the MP argued that Ventura had reason to consider the publication of Cristina Seguí, which Vision magazine had described in one of its pieces as a former Valencia host “amplifier of conspirative theses and “fake news”.
“ In the specific context in which the publication was carried out, it is not possible to see that the defendant – who, moreover and for the reasons he mentioned, had reason to attribute credibility to the original publication – was imputing facts or raising suspicion about Mariana Mortagua, but asking her for her comment or reaction on the subject”, read in the dispatch to which Lusa had access.
For the magistrates, it was “the same kind of action that the Members of the Assembly of the Republic take place in the debates that take place in Parliament, both in relation to each other, and in relation to the members of the Government, regarding matters published in the media”.
On the other hand, the order of the 5th Lisbon Section of the Department of Investigation and Criminal Action (DIAP) considered that “it is therefore important to take into account the fact – notoriously known – that those involved in these proceedings want the opposite poles of the national political spectrum.”.
It was also alleged in the order that, “in the seat of judgment, a penalty would not be imposed on the defendant” André Ventura, the investigation was therefore closed.