{"id":43501,"date":"2026-06-20T17:31:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/43501\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T17:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:31:24","slug":"sanchezs-wife-barred-from-leaving-spain-ahead-of-corruption-trial-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/43501\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e1nchez\u2019s wife barred from leaving Spain ahead of corruption trial \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

No date has been set for the politically sensitive trial, which adds to a series of scandals<\/a> affecting S\u00e1nchez\u2019s government. <\/p>\n

The charges come in a case stemming from a complaint by the ultra-Catholic association Hazte O\u00edr and far-right groups including the political party Vox.<\/p>\n

G\u00f3mez, who denies any wrongdoing, is accused of exploiting her position as the prime minister\u2019s wife for private gain through the creation and management of a chair at the Complutense University of Madrid, which she co-directed, as well as the alleged use of public funds and personal connections to advance private interests. <\/p>\n

A Spanish government official quoted by the Spanish newspapers El Pa\u00eds<\/a> and El Confidencial<\/a> said that Saturday\u2019s ruling contained \u201ca note of the persecution, obsession and disproportion of a judge who has carried out an investigation that lacks all legal sense and that only deals with political motives.\u201d<\/p>\n

El Pa\u00eds described the decision by Judge Juan Carlos Peinado as \u201can unprecedented measure in the recent democratic history of Spain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peinado\u2019s decision comes just a few days after former Prime Minister Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero, a long-time ally of S\u00e1nchez, appeared before a court<\/a> in Madrid to answer questions from judges about a \u20ac53 million public bailout granted during the Covid pandemic to the small airline Plus Ultra.<\/p>\n

Zapatero firmly rejected any suggestion that he had exerted influence over the bailout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No date has been set for the politically sensitive trial, which adds to a series of scandals affecting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[595,13613,2883,1484,21,13614,2670,205,19876,17],"class_list":["post-43501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-airlines","tag-bailout","tag-corruption","tag-courts","tag-history","tag-jose-luis-rodriguez-zapatero","tag-law-enforcement","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-rule-of-law","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}