Spanish judge summons Spanish government president, socialist party Pedro Sanchez will testify as a witness on July 30. in an investigation that concerns his wife, Begoña Gomezabout alleged influence peddling and possible corruption in business.

Sanchez will announce at the Moncloa Palace: the headquarters of the President of the Spanish Government, where the magistrate will go for questioning.

The judge in the case, Juan Carlos Peinado, thus accepts the request made by the people’s accusations, led by the far-right party Vox. who requested a declaration from the head of the executive power, the High Court of Madrid announced this Monday.

Peinado decided to call Sanchez as a witness. in an order issued last Friday, the same day his wife appeared before a judge as under investigation, although she refused to testify.

According to the Spanish Criminal Procedure Law (Lecrim), a public official, such as the head of the executive, has the opportunity to testify. “on matters of which he was not aware by virtue of his position” at your home or in your official office.

Pedro Sanchez’s statement will be recorded. as established by the same rule and as provided by Judge Peinado in the order of summons.

Begoña Gomez, Sanchez’s wife, has exercised her right not to declare not seeing sufficient guarantees in the judicial procedure, as his lawyer Antonio Camacho explained as he left the Madrid court where he appeared in court on Friday.

“She didn’t make a statement not because she has something to hide, not because she doesn’t want to give an explanation, but because The defense recommended not to make this statement. We are in a state governed by the rule of law, in a developed democratic society, and the testimony of the accused must be given with guarantees,” the lawyer claimed at the time.

This decision prompted the public to demand that the chief executive be called as a witness to find out what happened in the meetings held in Moncloa by Begoña Gómez and businessmen such as Juan Carlos Barrabes is also being investigated in the same case.

Barrabes, originally called as a witness, told the judge that Sanchez attended several meetings with Gomez. According to sources of the accusations.

In another ruling, the judge also decides investigate the case of the rector of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Joaquín Goyache, and calls him to testify on July 29, although he had previously only appeared as a witness.

The judge has been investigating Gomez’s case since April last year in an open case. following a complaint from the self-proclaimed “Clean Hands” trade union, that the prosecutor’s office asked to be archived, and that she asked to clarify whether she used her status as the wife of the prime minister to facilitate the conclusion of contracts with businessman Barrabes, a professor of the master’s program at the department to which she was assigned at TsUM.

(according to information from EFE)