In any case, the couple always seemed very close and Gómez has discreetly accompanied her husband’s career. “We are a team, as a team we row together“, the woman said in 2016 about her relationship with him. president of Spain.
Who is Begoña Gómez, the wife of Pedro Sánchez
Gómez was born in 1975 in Bilbao, in the Basque Country. He is Graduate in Marketing from the Madrid private university ESIC and has a master’s degree in Business Management. Furthermore, over the years she has specialized in fund accountingespecially for foundations and NGOs.
Her career has taken her to hold various positions of responsibility, as in Inmark Europa, a business consultancy, and in a department of the Complutense University of Madrid. This has led her to be at the forefront of the Women’s Rights Day demonstrations, a part of her career that did not want to abandon after the arrival of her husband to the head of the government in 2018.
The investigation against Begoña Gómez
Begoña Gómez is the subject of investigation for the links she established, in the exercise of her profession, with companies that negotiated public aid or participated in public competitions.
According to the digital media El Confidencial, Gómez “met privately” with the CEO of the Globalia Group, owner of the airline Air Europa, when it was negotiating a rescue plan with the Sánchez Government.
At that time, Gómez directed IE Africa Centera foundation linked to the Madrid business school IE University, which, according to the same Spanish media, had signed a sponsorship agreement with Globalia in 2020.
How Begoña Gómez and Pedro Sánchez met
Gómez and Sánchez met at a mutual friend’s birthday party and They have been a couple since the early 2000s. The woman accompanied her husband’s political rise by making an effort not to expose herself too much in the media.
Together they became parents to two teenage daughters named Ainhoa and Carlota. On one occasion, the spanish president He assured that thanks to his wife it is more “vitalist“.
Like Brigitte Macron in France and Michelle Obama In the United States, Begoña Gómez has been victim of “fake news” on social networks that insinuated that it was a man, news that the President has denounced.
After the complaint in court against Begoña Gómez, the vice president of Spain maintained that Sánchez’s wife is “a woman modern, professional, independent and intelligent“.
Spain: the defense of Pedro Sánchez against the accusations against his wife
Since the investigation was announced for “corruption” and “influence peddling“against Gomez, Pedro Sanchez He has shown his support and has even come to his defense.
“They denounce Begoña not because she has done something illegal, they know there is no case, but for being my wife“Said Sánchez in the letter he published on his X account, in which he also assured that on Monday, April 29, he will announce whether he will continue to be the president of Spain or not.
“Many times we forget that Behind the politicians there are people. I am not ashamed to say it, I am a man deeply in love with my wife who lives helplessly with the mud that is spread on her day in and day out,” Sánchez added.
Source: Ambito
