The love story of Pedro Sánchez and Begoña Gómez began like many others: with a crush. The President of the Government and his wife attended separately to a birthday party for a mutual friend in a Madrid villa. It was at the beginning of the year 2000. He was 28 years old and she was 25. “I went with some friends to a party, and there we met a group of friends who introduced me to Pedro,” Begoña has recounted on some occasion. The politician was immediately attracted to the Bilbao woman raised in Valderas (León).
Sánchez recalled during the 2015 campaign, in an interview on Bertín Osborne's program In yours or mine, what it cost him to get an appointment with her. “You don't know the trouble I gave him, I had to work hard, he made it very difficult for me,” he said. He recognized that he was a very flirtatious person and although he was not very good at dancing, he used his talk to make women fall in love with him.
That insistence paid off and soon he moved to her apartment in the La Latina neighborhood. “I was the one who put the toothbrush in her house. “She had a much larger apartment than mine,” Sánchez revealed. In 2005, her first daughter, Ainhoa, who is now 18 years old, was born. When the girl was a baby, the leader of the socialist party asked his girlfriend to marry him in a restaurant.
In 2006 they got married civilly at the Hipódromo de la Zarzuela. The ceremony was officiated by Trinidad Jiménez, who at that time was a councilor of the Madrid City Council. In 2007 they became parents to their second daughter, Carlota, 16 years old.
Before arriving at La Moncloa in 2018, they bought a villa in Pozuelo de Alarcón and have a second residence in Mojácar (Almería), a modest apartment that Sánchez bought in 2001 and where they vacationed every year.
With his wife, the Chief Executive shares a love of sports and reading. “We like to go riding our bikes together, take a walk in the countryside... We are both fans of reading and we like to talk about our readings,” he explained.
For him, his ideal day consists of "getting up late, doing some exercise with Begoña and eating paella, a fabada, a salmorejo with my family (...) Every Sunday we have lunch as a family, I'm not very original about that."
Begoña has revealed on occasion that her husband is very detail-oriented and romantic. In a program presented by Susanna Griso, she explained that she has even written him letters at times. "I keep everything. I have a wooden trunk (...) It's very romantic. It has many details. Even when he sees you a little overwhelmed by work and so on, he suggests going out to dinner or preparing a special moment for you."
Begoña Gómez was born in Bilbao in 1975, although she grew up in the south of the province of León, in the town of Valderas. She has a degree in Marketing from the ESIC Business School, in Madrid. She later completed a master's degree in Business Administration. Before her arrival in Moncloa, she carried out advisory work in different NGOs such as Oxfam Intermón, Amnesty International or Anesvad. For years she worked as director of commercial outsourcing consulting for the Inmark Group where, in 2018, she requested a leave of absence.
