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Chairman of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sanchez filed a complaint for failure to act through the state attorney general’s office. against the judge investigating the case of his wife Begoña Gomez, According to the Executive President’s sources, he is accused of alleged crimes related to influence peddling and business corruption.

The document, in which the Law Firm, an organization providing legal assistance to the state, requests various procedures, emphasizes that the complaint is not an attack on the judiciary, but rather “an attempt to move away from a specific exercise” a judge who acted with “arbitrariness” and “unfair procedure” in relation to “the highest representative of another state authority.”

The complaint filed by the prosecutor’s office states that “several elements that make it obvious that the acceptance of the statement” The practice carried out this Tuesday is “contrary to the rules” and deprives the Executive President of “the guarantees provided by the Criminal Procedure Law of 1882” and without “an alternative explanation”.

The complaint against Judge Juan Carlos Peinado was filed after Sanchez on Tuesday exercised his right not to testify as a witness in a judicial investigation into alleged corruption and influence peddling. against his wife what prompted him to consider resigning in April, lawyers present at the hearing said.

Sanchez’s wife’s lawyer and former Interior Minister Antonio Camacho said Sanchez’s testimony lasted two minutes. Under Spanish law, close family members, including spouses, may refuse to answer questions when the judge calls them.

Camacho said that investigating judge Juan Carlos Peinado asked him two questions: whether he had a relationship with any of the defendants and whether he wanted to testify.

Sanchez responded that Begoña Gomez was his wife and he did not want to testify.

Government officials were not immediately available for comment.

The trial is part of a preliminary investigation into whether Begoña Gómez used her position as the wife of the government’s president to to obtain sponsors for a master’s degree at the university he supervised.

Sanchez denied the accusations against her, saying they were baseless and orchestrated by right-wing political enemies because they were represented by organizations associated with the far right.

Peinado interviewed Sanchez at the government headquarters in Madrid, in the La Moncloa palace, where Sanchez’s official residence is located.

He was accompanied by Gomez’s lawyer, the prosecution and a lawyer for the far-right VOX party, which uses a legal instrument known as the “people’s indictment” which allows people to file criminal lawsuits against third parties.

A small group of protesters gathered in front of the Moncloa Palace, shouting: slogans against Sanchez and the Socialist Party (PSOE).