Follow live all the political reactions from the ABC exclusive on the leak of Alberto González Amador’s confession by Moncloa and the attempt to implicate Juan Lobato, leader of the PSOE in Madrid.
10:06 a.m.
Cub, cornered by the Tertullians
“La Moncloa didn’t ask me anything, she told me that we can use this information and I ask where it comes from, and they tell me that it comes from the media and then I use it during the session of control”, he reiterates after having asked several times in “Espejo Público”, what was the purpose of proving before a notary that he had simply received information from the media.
09:55
He denounces the fact that they want to discredit the PSOE of Madrid
Susana Griso asks him to show the screenshots which prove that he does not have a PDF from the prosecution but rather information from the media and Lobato denounces that there is an attempt to discredit the PSOE of Madrid.
09:51
“Excessive caution”
Regarding the notary, he says that six months after giving the information to the Assembly, a procedure is opened for leak and as he spoke more during those days, he will prove, “perhaps out of an abundance of caution “. that the information does not come from the prosecution but from the media.
09:50
Lobato insists he found out through the media
“La Moncloa never tells me anything: we will see about it with the media. I check it’s in the media and use it – in the Assembly.
09:46
Ayuso believes that Moncloa’s political maneuver against her “is grounds for direct expulsion from the government”
The president of the Community of Madrid stressed this Monday, after learning from the ABC exclusive, that this, in any democratic country, “is a reason for the direct expulsion of a government.” “It is clear that they orchestrated an affair at the table of the president of the government to try to destroy a political rival through her boyfriend,” determined Díaz Ayuso after visiting the multinational Hyundai in South Korea.
“This is all we are seeing, a use of state powers to commit all kinds of illegalities in an attempt to destroy the adversary.”
09:42
Editorial | The report on the mud of La Moncloa
The information that ABC publishes today on the front page will have serious judicial and political consequences, because it affects the events examined by the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court and directly implicates the hard core of the Presidency of the Government in the commission of these events.
09:41
This was the footage of Ayuso’s boyfriend’s secret data being leaked
Eight months have passed since the publication of the denunciation by the tax authorities of Alberto González Amador for alleged tax fraud. Eight months in which Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner went through an emotional and legal roller coaster due to the revelations about her dialogue with the Treasury to try to reach an agreement on this matter. Leaks that not only reached the press and which, as revealed by ABC, tried to be used politically to attack the Madrid president in the Assembly, which the leader of the PSOE in this community, Juan Lobato, would have denied. Here is the full timeline.
09:40
Pilar Sánchez Acera, responsible for materializing the escape of Ayuso’s boyfriend: a “plumber” with a career in the PSOE
The person responsible for materializing the leak of confidential information from Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s boyfriend, Pilar Sánchez Acera, held elected and trusted positions. A native of Madrid and a commerce graduate from the Autonomous University of Madrid, she began flirting with politics as an active member of the Socialist Youth of Alcobendas.
It was there that he held his first position, first as an advisor then as deputy mayor of the town. A member of the Socialist Party of Madrid, she was, between 2015 and 2022, deputy spokesperson for the socialist group in the Assembly. Read the full article.
09:39
Lobato gives his version
The leader of the Madrid socialists published a statement in which he claimed to have learned of the document from Ayuso’s boyfriend directly through the press. “This came from the media and not from the prosecution,” he insisted this morning in an interview with Cadena Cope.
