María Begoña Gómez Fernández (born 29 January 1975)[1] is the wife of Pedro Sánchez, the Prime Minister of Spain.

[3] In 2020, she became the extraordinary Chair of Competitive Social Transformation of the Complutense University of Madrid, a position that she maintained into 2024 alongside her co-director role and teacher of the master's degree.

[14][15] Led by Miguel Bernad [es], formerly the secretary general of the far-right National Front,[16] it considers itself a trade union but its main activity is acting as a platform pursuing politically-motivated legal cases; for example, they brought the popular accusation against Iñaki Urdangarín and his wife the daughter of the King of Spain, which led to the conviction of the former for corruption offences.

"[11] The education minister and government spokesperson Pilar Alegría expressed surprise at the fact the news of the investigation came out ahead of the 2024 European Parliament election in Spain and stated: "We know that there is absolutely nothing here.

"[11][15] Gómez is scheduled to testify before a Madrid court on 5 July 2024 as "an investigated party" about "the alleged offences of corruption in the private sector and influence peddling".

Likewise, the vice-rector Juan Carlos Doadrio declared that it was the rector Joaquín Goyache who directly ordered him to create the chair of Gómez.

[27] On 29 October, the judge charged Gómez with alleged crimes of misappropriation and professional trespassing for supposedly having appropriated the software of the chair that was paid for by the Complutense University.

[28] Gómez married Sánchez in 2006, at the Hipódromo de la Zarzuela racecourse in Madrid, in a ceremony officiated by PSOE politician Trinidad Jiménez.