The Executive has reacted with "indignation" to the decision of magistrate Juan Carlos Peinado to prosecute Begoña Gómez, wife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, for several alleged corruption offenses, and for having made the dissemination of this resolution coincide with the official trip that the head of the Executive and his wife are making these days to China.
Moncloa sources underscore the deep discomfort existing in the Government both for the order as well as for "some expressions contained therein", where the investigating judge details his decision to put Gómez in the dock for embezzlement, influence peddling, business corruption, and misappropriation.
Within the Government, it has caused particular anger that Peinado describes this matter as "conducts that come from presidential palaces" and that "seem more typical of absolutist regimes fortunately already forgotten", as stated in his resolution, in which he also equates the investigated facts with actions typical of the reign of Ferdinand VII, in the 19th century.
Sánchez has expressed on different occasions his disagreement with the investigation that Peinado is leading and usually insists that it will lead to nothing and that the passage of time "will put things in their place." To this is added the internal criticism in the Government due to the fact that the judge makes the publication of his decisions coincide with official trips of the president abroad, "A fact that is not casual," they reproach from Moncloa's inner circle.
Gómez has been in Beijing since Saturday, where she traveled invited by the Chinese authorities, who have granted this visit a fully official character, of higher rank than the previous three occasions. During the weekend, Sánchez and Gómez have visited several emblematic points of the Chinese capital, such as the Summer Palace and the Drum Tower. This Monday, Gómez has accompanied the president throughout his institutional agenda, first at Tsinghua University and, subsequently, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and at the headquarters of the technology company Xiaomi.
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