Hunch. The provincial court must first take the case, appoint a presiding judge, seat a jury and hear any appeal against the order, and the only fast publication in the record came from the Supreme Court, which has no queue.
The date market resolves YES if, by 20 December 2026, the Madrid court publishes a start date for the trial of Begoña Gómez on poderjudicial.es (TSJ Madrid news), whatever that date is. If the court site is silent, reports by two of Reuters, BBC News, the Guardian and Politico Europe settle it.
In Spain the wait for a trial depends mostly on the court. We looked at high-profile political cases in which a judge sent the case to trial, and counted the days until the trial opened. Our sources give both dates for eight cases, and five are close enough to compare. The two closest, heard by provincial courts like this one, both took just over a year. The two fast ones were tried by national courts: the Supreme Court, which has no queue, and the National Court. This trial will be the only one of them heard by a jury, and jury rules let the defence appeal the order itself, a step none of the five cases had.