“Surprise and stupor. This is explained by itself. And we are going to stay there.” This is how the president's team has reacted to the last movement of the Judge Peinado this Wednesday after communicating to Begoña Gómez who prepares to sit on the bench before a popular jury. A decision against which they have lashed out both from the government and from the Socialist Party itself.
“The Spanish system is a guarantee and we trust that an impartial court will put things in place,” said the Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños in the Congress. Asked about the case, the spokesman, Pilar Alegría, has answered the press that he considers “surrealist” the step taken by hairstyle.
From the PSOE they insist that “there is no case” against the president's couple. “We have always defended that over time the truth will make its way and that this instruction will remain as a case of study, in negative, for law students,” says Ferraz sources.
From the direction of the party it is pointed out that “in 48 hours two people whose only crime is to be a family of the president of the Government,” in reference to the president's couple, and the president's partner have been opened. “Not as expected, this step is no longer surprising. Over time, this will be known as the combed case,” they add.
The Second Vice President of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, has also reacted to the decision. “The hairstyle instruction will be studied from this date in all the law of our country,” he said at the exit of the Plenary, in the halls of Congress.
Judge Juan Carlos Peinado announced on Wednesday that the wife of the President of the Government, his assistant and the Government delegate in Madrid will be tried, when the time has come, before a popular jury accused of a crime of embezzlement of public flows. In a car in which the judge does not detail the facts he attributes to Begoña Gómez and before even opening an oral trial, cites the three in his court next Saturday to inform them and that they can make allegations.
According to the regulations of the Jury Court, it is the judge's movement when he understands that an accused can become tried for a crime competence of a popular jury. In this case, the embezzlement attributed to Gomez and the other two accused of the works of his assistant.