Sánchez turns his rally in Fuenlabrada into a declaration of love for his wife: "We are stronger and more united than ever. I love you"

Over the public address system of the Tomás y Valiente Art Center in Fuenlabrada (Madrid), the song Malibu by the artist Rusowsky was playing, whose lyrics describe a deep and nostalgic love, when Pedro Sánchez entered accompanied by his wife. On stage, Begoña Gómez hugged her husband, kissed him on the mouth, an image that unanimously surprised the public gathered at the Tomás y Valiente Art Center in Fuenlabrada, and received a standing ovation.

The president's wife, awaiting trial for influence peddling and embezzlement, does not usually lavish herself at party events. Also a militant, the last time until now that she had been supported in public by her people was at the Federal Congress of Seville in December 2024. Months before she had appeared again by surprise at a rally in Benalmádena (Málaga).

"Today Begoña is with me. Thank you for being my wife, the mother, my daughters and my partner. They have tried to break us in every way and it has been the opposite. We are stronger and more united than ever. Let me be heard loud and clear, I love you."

The event in Fuenlabrada was attended by practically all the barons of the party except Emiliano García-Page from Castile-La Mancha, upset because speaking times were not planned in the previous Federal Committee, nor was Salvador Illa due to the rains that have kept Catalonia on alert.

During his speech, Sánchez put on a red t-shirt with the motto The strength of the people.

"Pedro is better than ever, he is like a motorcycle," proclaimed Óscar López, general secretary of the socialists in Madrid. "We have two objectives: first to keep him in the Moncloa and then to keep Sol," he added in reference to the seat of the Presidency of the region that the PP has held for four decades.