Begoña Gómez, or when the PSOE understands ‘lawfare’

To no one's surprise, Begoña Gómez, the wife of the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has been sent to trial for embezzlement and influence peddling.It is the news of the day and, at the same time, it was already taken for granted. You know what happens when the episodes of a series are coming to an end, when the writers drown the protagonists with an accumulation of problems? Well, here we are: the Spanish legislature has months left, and Aznar's watchword of “Whoever can do, let them do” is working at full speed. Note that the judge who is sending Sánchez's wife to trial, the judge Juan Carlos Peinado, is retiring next week. He is leaving through the front door, with a big game trophy. Because one thing is that Begoña Gómez has to answer to the law like everyone else, but not everyone is answering to the law in the same way. Carlos Mazón, with hundreds of deaths on his conscience, continues to collect a deputy's salary. It would be touching if it were not pathetic to hear yesterday on TVE a minister of Sánchez, Óscar López, acknowledging that at the beginning of the 'Procés', he did not understand what was happening, and that now he understands everything.

Óscar López: “When the 'Procés' happened, a person, I won't say who, told me one day... «Don't worry, we will put an end to this». I didn't understand what he meant by «we will put an end to this», but the next day a media outlet published a front page saying that Mr. Trias has an account in Switzerland. And it was false. Later we listened to the audios of the Kitchen case and we heard him say: «Don't worry, the prosecutor will fix this for you...» «He will fine-tune it for you», specifically. The Prosecutor's Office will fine-tune it for you. We have heard this. This has happened in this country. Listen, it is like that, I regret it. Listen, I am a democrat”.

The examples are endless. Today, as the Constitutional Court begins deliberations on the appeals of the political prisoners, is a good day to remember that the Supreme Court has refused to apply the amnesty law. The result of these deliberations will not become a ruling until fifteen days from now. Good morning.