Begoña Gómez, from the shadow of Pedro Sánchez to the center of the ring

Begoña Gómez, the wife of President of the Spanish Government Pedro Sánchez, now in the center of media attention Since the announcement of the opening of a judicial investigation against her, she had accompanied her husband’s career discreetly but showing complicity.

“We are a team, as a team we row together,” said this woman with long blonde hair on a television station in 2016.

The couple once again underlined their unity after the court announced on Wednesday that they were being investigated for “corruption” and “influence peddling”, following a complaint filed by an organization close to the extreme right.

“They denounce Begoña not because I have done something illegal, They know that there is no case, except for being my wife,” he said. Pedro Sanchez in the letter in which he gave himself until Monday to “reflect” on his resignation.

“Many times we forget that behind politicians there are people. And I, I am not ashamed to say it, I am a man deeply in love with my wife who lives helplessly with the mud that they spread on her day in and day out,” Sánchez added.

Born in 1975 in Bilbao, in the Basque Country (north), Begoña Gómez is the subject of this investigation due to the links she established, in the exercise of her profession, with companies that negotiated public aid or participated in public tenders.

According to the digital media El Confidencial, Gómez “met privately” with the CEO of the Globalia Groupowner of the airline Air Europa, when it was negotiating a rescue plan with the Sánchez Government.

At that time, Gómez directed IE Africa Center, a foundation linked to the Madrid business school IE University, which, according to El Confidencial, had signed a sponsorship agreement with Globalia in 2020. He left this position in 2022.

The wife of Pedro Sanchez She has a degree in Marketing from the Madrid private university ESIC and has a master’s degree in Business Management. Over the years, she has specialized in fundraising, especially for foundations and NGOs.

Her career has led her to hold various positions of responsibility, such as in Inmark Europe, a business consulting firm, and in a department at the Complutense University of Madrid.

A career that this left-wing activist, regularly at the forefront of Women’s Rights Day demonstrations on March 8, did not want to abandon after her husband became head of government in 2018.

Pedro Sánchez’s partner since the early 2000s, whom she met at a mutual friend’s birthday party, Begoña Gómez accompanied her husband’s political rise trying not to expose himself too much in the media.

In Spain, a parliamentary monarchy in which the king is the head of state, there is no protocol rank for the spouses of heads of government. This allows for relative discretion.

However, this reservation does not prevent the couple, parents of two teenage daughters (Ainhoa ​​and Carlota), from appearing together on election nights.

“Thanks to her, I am more vital,” confided a few years ago the socialist leader, who has denounced on several occasions the permanent “hoaxes” of which his wife is the subject.

Like Brigitte Macron in France and Michele Obama in the United States, Begoña Gómez has been a victim of “fake news” on social networksThey insinuated that it was a man.

Other publications wrongly stated that she had been removed from her position by the Complutense University.

The left has come out in defense of the wife of the president of the Government in the face of what he considers a misinformation campaign.

Begoña Gómez is “a modern, professional, independent and intelligent woman,” declared the number two in the government, María Jesús Montero, on Thursday, estimating that the right would prefer her to stay “at home” and on the margins “of public life.”