No date has been set for the politically delicate trial, which provides to a collection of scandals affecting Sánchez’s authorities.
The costs are available a case stemming from a criticism by the ultra-Catholic affiliation Hazte Oír and far-right teams together with the political celebration Vox.
Gómez, who denies any wrongdoing, is accused of exploiting her place because the prime minister’s spouse for personal achieve by means of the creation and administration of a chair on the Complutense College of Madrid, which she co-directed, in addition to the alleged use of public funds and private connections to advance personal pursuits.
A Spanish authorities official quoted by the Spanish newspapers El País and El Confidencial stated that Saturday’s ruling contained “a notice of the persecution, obsession and disproportion of a decide who has carried out an investigation that lacks all authorized sense and that solely offers with political motives.”
El País described the choice by Choose Juan Carlos Peinado as “an unprecedented measure within the latest democratic historical past of Spain.”
Peinado’s determination comes only a few days after former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, a long-time ally of Sánchez, appeared earlier than a court docket in Madrid to reply questions from judges a couple of €53 million public bailout granted through the Covid pandemic to the small airline Plus Extremely.
Zapatero firmly rejected any suggestion that he had exerted affect over the bailout.
