Begoña Gómez, wife of the President of the Government, has explained in the Madrid Assembly that she will not testify in her commission of inquiry into the Complutense University as she is accused in the criminal proceedings that Judge Juan Carlos Peinado is directing against her. “All of this has an obvious political objective: you only have to look at the list of complainants and for this reason, advised by my lawyer, I am going to take advantage of my right not to answer your questions after fulfilling my obligation to appear. “Sooner rather than later the truth will put things in their place,” she said, alluding to the “hoaxes” about her.
The businesswoman has defended her professional career before announcing that she will not answer the questions: “For 25 years I have been working in consulting and teaching, I have coordinated teams, directed projects, advised more than fifty professionals in the private sector and the third sector. 12 years ago I began a collaboration with the Complutense, as co-director of a master’s degree with its own degrees to train professionals specialized in social and sustainability projects. It is in 2020 when this collaboration expands with the creation of an extraordinary professorship, which is a common practice within public and unpaid universities,” he said. She has also defended having “a professional life built with great effort, as one more like millions of women do every day in our country.”
The first to speak, representing the PP, was Mercedes Zarzalejo, reading her intervention: “We want to know how she worked as a university professor without being one, a professor of a chair without merits for it, directing masters of which she could not have been student, finance a chair with funds much higher than the rest, it seems that she appropriated software and, in short, why she abused her status as the wife of the President of the Government to create a professional career that until then she had never had.” .
“They cannot ask questions that are unrelated to the purpose of the commission,” the president of the commission had previously warned. Zarzalejo tried to cut off Gómez when he was making his first presentation and the president of the commission had to ask for silence so that the wife of the president of the Government could finish speaking. Subsequently, she asked questions about her work at the Complutense but also about aspects that have nothing to do with the center, such as the rescue of Air Europa, without being cut off by the president, the ‘popular’ Susana Pérez.
At the entrance to the Madrid regional assembly, the ultra-Catholic organization HazteOir, which is carrying out the popular accusation against her, has located a van with various images of Gómez. In the moments prior to the appearance, already inside the room, there was a clash between a PSOE deputy and the president of the commission: “This was not planned,” one of them denounced when the media accessed to the room to take photos with Gómez already sitting on the stand.
Begoña Gómez is called to appear in court next Monday, November 18. Judge Juan Carlos Peinado explained that his objective was to “give him personal transfer of the complaint and declare in that capacity assisted by a lawyer for the aforementioned crimes.” For the moment, the wife of the President of the Government has requested to postpone this summons because it coincides with her presence at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change being held in Azerbaijan and the popular accusations, among which is Vox, have requested that it be impose precautionary measures such as the withdrawal of his passport so that he cannot leave the country.
Judge Juan Carlos Peinado has focused his criminal investigation against Begoña Gómez on her work at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she had two master’s degrees and a professorship, now canceled by the center. To date, the UCM has informed the court that the choice of the businesswoman to work with them was due to her professional profile and experience, arguments that it already repeated in 2023 when a lawyer made this same request for information, as explained elDiario.es.
The rector of the UCM, Joaquín Goyache, is also accused in the case, also called to testify to this investigation commission. Goyache has denied any type of favorable treatment to the wife of the President of the Government in his appearances before Judge Peinado. The last branch of the case focuses on the management of free software that various companies developed for the chair that Gómez directed and that she hosted on a website registered in the name of one of her companies, with a name similar to that of the chair. in question.
The UCM was unable to find evidence of a crime in the use of this software but wrote to Judge Peinado so that he could command a criminal investigation from his court. In parallel, the ultra-Catholic organization HazteOir filed a complaint in this regard, which has led to the opening of a new separate piece apart from the one already investigating the public contracts awarded to Juan Carlos Barrabés and Gómez’s job at the Africa Center. , where for now the magistrate has not obtained indications of favorable treatment.
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