The President of the Government and candidate for re-election, Pedro Sánchez, has celebrated that his wife, Begoña Gómez, “has angered the far right quite a lot” with her appearance at the kick-off rally for the election campaign. In his view, it is necessary to highlight women like her, who have centered their lives on working and have suffered “persecution.”
Sánchez has defended that Gómez took the floor —for the first time at a party event— because, as he said, they have been “dehumanizing her” for years, and she has chosen to make clear that “being someone’s wife is something that ended a long time ago,” as she indicated in the program ‘El perro andaluz’ on TVE.
Gómez’s public appearance, who continues to be awaiting trial for alleged crimes of influence peddling and embezzlement, prompted the reaction of Vox leader Santiago Abascal. From a rally in Huesca, he accused the Socialists of “having no shame.”
The head of the Executive has indicated that his wife decided to intervene to return the “immense affection” received from numerous people since Justice began investigating her and, moreover, to reaffirm “her commitment to the PSOE,” a party which, in Sánchez’s words, “builds a Spain of equals.”
The Socialist leader has stressed that when he met Gómez some twenty years ago she was already a professional with full autonomy, which is why he insists that “women like Begoña” who have “worked all their lives” and have had to “suffer persecution” that, he denounces, “has no description.”