The secretary general of the PSOE of Madrid, Juan Lobato, denied this Monday that Moncloa disclosed secret documents about the boyfriend of the president of the Community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, to use them against her during a parliamentary control session . However, he also admitted that he had gone to the notary to record how he had obtained this information and that it came from an employee of the Presidency.
Concretely, the one who gave the ammunition to Lobato was Pilar Sánchez-Acera, chief of staff of Oscar López, who was then chief of staff of Pedro Sánchez. According to the account of the PSOE leader in Madrid, this exchange of messages took place on March 14 “as part of a normal conversation”, given that she is also part of the Socialist Executive.
“We cannot say that it is Moncloa because she worked at Moncloa at that time… She has been my secretary of institutional policy for two years and with whom I prepare these control sessions,” he said. -he argued.
WhatsApp screenshots have been notarized since the beginning of November.
Still according to her account, Juan Lobato asked her where this information came from and she replied that “from the media” and not from the State Attorney General’s Office, as was initially inferred, thus denying the existence of a Land Moncloa to discredit Ayuso. At the time he used this data, it is true that some of it had already been published in the press.
What is strange is that Lobato decided, six months after this conversation, to register it before a notary. Precisely when the Supreme Court opened a case (and indicted) the state attorney general. The reason was precisely the leak of information about Ayuso’s partner to the media.
“As I am the first to talk about it, I say to myself: ‘It is likely that the Supreme Court will ask me,’ so I let it be recorded before a notary,” Lobato explained this Monday. “It is above all a matter of clarifying that the information comes to us through the media and not through the prosecution.”
Lobato, as a Treasury technician, understood that the use of these documents could compromise whoever had disclosed them, and that he also had to distance himself to avoid possible legal repercussions. Especially if it came from the Attorney General’s office.
“I wouldn’t have liked to have hair. But the opposite is proven. This is what leaves me alone and when the procedure is opened before the Supreme Court, I say that this proves the complaint that is filed,” he assured.
The context
The Madrid socialist leader has in no way explained what type of investigation he intends to carry out, nor whether it will be himself, the Madrid party or the federal leadership of the PSOE which will promote it. According to his words, he went to the notary “without notifying anyone else and his own decision”. Without benefiting from “anyone’s opinion”, given his professional status as a Treasury technician, and to protect himself in the event of a judicial investigation.
Such an investigation is already underway into the alleged tax fraud of Alberto Gonzalez Amadorsentimental partner of the Madrid president. But there is also another, against the attorney general of the state, Alvaro Garcia Ortizthe alleged origin of the leak which then reached Moncloa and several editorial media affecting the PSOE.
Supreme Court Justice Angel Hurtado This Monday he ordered the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard to access the content of the data seized from the Attorney General during the search of his official office on October 30, for his “prominent participation in the events that ultimately led to the leak under investigation.”
And now Lobato’s intention is that justice opens another case to find out how he was able to make the headlines and say that he recorded this chain of messages for his own protection. “I will file a complaint with the courts,” he announced, announcing the departure of the Commission of Spokespersons of the Madrid Assembly.
Lobato also revealed that on Sunday evening he spoke with Óscar López and with Pilar Sánchez-Acerathen chief of staff to the current Minister of Digital Transformation. “For me, I would publish the conversation,” he added, before emphasizing that it is not his decision, at least only.
When she contacted Lobato in March to send him the leak that concerned Díaz Ayuso’s boyfriend, Sánchez Acera was also the institutional secretary of the MSP. Now López appears to be the candidate chosen by Pedro Sanchez to lead Madrid socialism, which will hold its regional congress after the federal congress of the PSOE, which will be held at the end of this week.
