The wife of Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has been ordered to stand trial on corruption charges, a court order released on Saturday said.

Begona Gomez is ‌accused of using her position as the head of the government's wife to secure work contracts.

The case is one of several graft cases facing the PM's center-left minority government.

What do we know about the court ruling?

The court in Madrid agreed that there was sufficient evidence to bring Gomez's case to trial in front of a jury.