Óscar Puente explodes against Judge Peinado for leaving Begoña Gómez's trip up in the air and calls him "coward"

Óscar Puente has once again raised his tone against judge Juan Carlos Peinado and against Alberto Núñez Feijóo amidst the controversy over the permit requested by Begoña Gómez to travel to the NATO summit in Ankara and her daughter's graduation in London.

The Minister of Transport first reacted to the news that Peinado has gone on vacation without resolving the request of Pedro Sánchez's wife, which will now be in the hands of a substitute judge. "Also a coward," Puente wrote on X, in response to a report from El Mundo about the magistrate's departure.

The decision comes with the calendar at its limit. Begoña Gómez had requested judicial authorization to leave Spain between July 7 and 10, after Peinado withdrew her passport and prohibited her from leaving the country, citing a risk of flight. The defense appealed these precautionary measures before the Provincial Court of Madrid, considering them disproportionate.

The Prosecutor's Office does not object to Gómez being able to travel. The popular accusations, led by HazteOír, reject lifting the measure. The resolution must arrive in the next few hours, now without Peinado in charge of the decision.

Feijóo once again attacks Begoña Gómez

Puente also responded to Feijóo after the PP leader described it as "improper" for Begoña Gómez, whom he defined as "indicted several times," to "parade through international forums." The popular leader defended that the final word rests with the judge, but once again placed the case at the center of his offensive against Sánchez.

"What a sinister individual. His moral baseness is unprecedented in Spanish politics," Puente responded to the message disseminated by Europa Press with the statements of the president of the Popular Party.

The clash comes in a week marked by Feijóo's new shift towards the frameworks of the harder right. After stirring up suspicion of electoral fraud with the Grandchildren's Law and announcing a national "conceived but not born" law along the lines of Ayuso's, the PP leader is now once again using the Begoña Gómez case to harden his discourse against the Government.

Peinado was already in the spotlight for his precautionary measures against the president's wife. The CGPJ opened a disciplinary file against the magistrate after the statements included in his order regarding Gómez's escort, where he suggested that the agents could collaborate in an eventual escape. Interior and police unions harshly rejected that suspicion about the National Police.

Sánchez's wife is still awaiting authorization to travel. The judge who imposed the measure is already on vacation. The political quarrel, meanwhile, once again revolves around a case that the PP has turned into one of its main weapons against Moncloa.