Spain's PM wife ordered to trial: corruption case or right-wing 'lawfare' against Sánchez?
A Madrid judge ordered Begoña Gómez, wife of PM Pedro Sánchez, to stand trial for influence peddling and corruption, and to surrender her passport and report to court twice monthly. Sánchez calls it right-wing political persecution driven by a complaint from an anti-corruption group with far-right ties; critics say the evidence justifies prosecution.
The summary above is a neutral framing. Below, each side reports the same story in its own words — judge for yourself.
Sánchez frames the prosecution as an orchestrated attack by the right — the complaint against his wife was filed by a far-right-linked anti-corruption group, and similar cases are pending against other government allies — calling it a judicial strategy to topple a democratically elected prime minister.
Critics say the judge's ruling — after a multi-year investigation — shows there is substantive evidence that Gómez used her proximity to the prime minister to influence government technology contracts, and that requiring her to stand trial is the justice system functioning as it should, regardless of politics.
