Overview
- Section 23 of the Audiencia Provincial accepted appeals by the prosecution and Begoña Gómez’s defense against Judge Juan Carlos Peinado’s September 3 measure.
- The quashed order sought all emails sent and received from her official Presidency account from July 18, 2018 to September 23, 2025.
- In a December 9 ruling, the court barred examination of those communications, citing failures of necessity, suitability, and proportionality.
- Emails already obtained and sent to the Civil Guard’s UCO for analysis must be removed from the case file, stopping their use in the proceeding.
- The move trims the evidence pool in the embezzlement inquiry into the prime minister’s spouse and represents another correction of Peinado by the appellate chamber.