Overview
- The defense filed a written request with Judge Juan Carlos Peinado asking to suspend the preliminary hearing currently set for early June and to set a new date.
- Lawyer Antonio Camacho told the court he cannot attend because he has prior 'declaraciones' in a Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo court and another trial that makes the proposed date unavailable.
- If the hearing goes ahead, the judge will use it to decide whether to abrir juicio oral against Gómez, a procedural step that would move the case to a jury trial.
- The court has not yet ruled on the postponement request so the decision on opening an oral trial remains pending and effectively deferred while the judge considers the filing.
- The case has drawn heightened attention because Gómez is the wife of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and under Spanish procedure the audiencia preliminar before the juez de instrucción is the formal point at which indictment for trial is decided.