foreign media<\/a> reports.<\/p>\nThe video also shows two women intervening and forcibly preventing Quiles from getting close to G\u00f3mez, allowing her to enter a taxi and leave the scene.<\/p>\n
G\u00f3mez is currently under investigation over allegations that she used her position as the prime minister\u2019s wife to help secure work contracts. She denies any wrongdoing. In April, a Spanish prosecutor requested that the investigating judge close the case, which had been brought by far-right groups.<\/p>\n
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His conduct during the incident was widely condemned by members of Spain\u2019s Socialist government as well as by the conservative People\u2019s Party (PP). However, PP spokesperson Ester Mu\u00f1oz said that Quiles was \u201calso a victim\u201d due to the actions of the women who restrained him, adding that she \u201cunderstands that there are journalists who want to ask questions\u201d of G\u00f3mez.<\/p>\n
The case involving G\u00f3mez is one of several corruption-related matters either approaching trial or already in court that are placing pressure on S\u00e1nchez, one of Europe\u2019s remaining left-leaning leaders.<\/p>\n
Separately, witnesses this week are testifying in a corruption case involving S\u00e1nchez\u2019s former transport minister. On April 29, V\u00edctor Aldama, a witness in a case linked to former minister Jos\u00e9 Luis \u00c1balos, told a court that S\u00e1nchez had been aware of alleged kickback payments made to his party, the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE).<\/p>\n
A PSOE spokesperson rejected the claim, calling Aldama\u2019s testimony a lie and stating that the party intends to bring his remarks before the Supreme Court as slander.<\/p>\n
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