On November 29, the general secretary of the Madrid socialists, Juan Lobato, has two important meetings. The first, in the Supreme Court, where the investigator in charge of the case against the state attorney general summoned him at 10 a.m. as a witness. The second, in Seville, where his party inaugurated its 41st Federal Congress.
Neither of these two appointments will be easy for the visible face of Madrid’s socialists. In the first case, you must declare why he recorded his conversations with Moncloa before a notary about Ayuso’s boyfriend.
In the second case, that of the Socialist Congress, the leadership of its own party does not want to “see it appear”.
As you may have known Total Madrid, both within the PSOE of Madrid (PSM) As in Ferraz, the idea is formed that Juan Lobato will not participate in the Seville congress. Some claim that it would be a very “hard” situation for him, seeing himself isolated within the party, but others directly affirm that it will be in this Congress where the National PSOE He will look for the permanent replacement.
The controversy aroused after the information published by ABC This happens to Lobato at his worst moment. Just when it is time to revalidate the general secretary of his party at a regional congress and his “rebels”, mainly big mayors, begin to appear stronger and supported by the national leadership.
Madrid socialism, due to its proximity (both physical and ideological) to Ferraz, has always had difficulty maintaining its distance. In fact, Lobato himself was the “boy from Moncloa” when he confronted the mayor of Fuenlabrada, Javier Ayala, by the PSM general secretariat.
Now those who promoted him appear to be looking for a replacement. Well, a white blackbird, like Oscar Lopezor a known face of the Madrid PSOE who can unite all the families who move to the region.
Opinions within these large families are unanimous and everyone believes that after Lobato’s movement on Monday, his permanence at the head of the Madrid socialists is “impossible”.
Many say they “do not understand” why he did what he did: recording before a notary a WhatsApp conversation with the right hand of the person who was supposed to “lift” Óscar López’s chair. Precisely because she is the co-star, others see Lobato’s intentions as a strategy to discredit López and remain in his position.
But something is obvious. The socialist is a Treasury technician and, if the information published is true, the recording of these WhatsApps with data on Ayuso’s boyfriend “prevents” Lobato from the possibility of having been complicit in a crime in n ‘having not wanted to disseminate information which would have been divulged from the Attorney General’s Office.
Lobato assured that no one on his team had the slightest proof that he had recorded this conversation before a notary or of its existence. “I did it alone and I didn’t consult anyone,” he summarized. A fact that can “liberate” some of its like-minded people and inspire them to try fight for the general secretary of the PSOE of Madrid in his name or, at least, share your program.
However, the most plausible option that is being whispered within the party is that Seville is the place where the national PSOE acts. Give visibility or make “gestures” that can dare the new leadership in the Happy street of success. “Next week there will be names,” say the most critical of Lobato’s leadership at the head of the PSM in those years. All that remains is to find out who these names will be.
The Lobato affair
The general secretary of the Madrid Socialists became the center of political news after reports published by ABC revealed that Lobato recorded a WhatsApp conversation with Pilar Sánchez Acera before a notary (current chief of staff of the Minister of Digital Transformation, Óscar López, then chief of staff of Pedro Sánchez) in which, allegedly, they leaked a document containing data on the partner of the President of the Community of Madrid who came from the State Attorney General’s Office.
Lobato gave his respective explanations this Monday and, although the versions varied, he came to defend that Moncloa had not sent him anything because, at that time, Sánchez Acera was “secretary of institutional policy” and with whom he prepared the sessions of control of President Díaz. Ayuso.
Still according to his story, Juan Lobato He asked her where this information came from and she replied that “from the media” and not from the State Attorney General’s Officeas initially deduced, therefore denying the existence of a Land Moncloa to discredit Ayuso.
At the time he used these data, it is true that some of them had already been published in the press, although in his different versions Lobato first assured that he had been sent a press clipping and , later he spoke of “a screenshot.” of the email containing this information.
Although this took place on March 14, Lobato decided in October to register it before a notary. Precisely after the Supreme Court opened a case (and charged) on State Attorney General. The reason was precisely the leak of information about Ayuso’s partner to the media.
“I did it to clarify that the MSP had received the information through the media,” not by the prosecutor’s office“, he reiterated this Monday. A decision that he took alone, without taking anyone’s opinion and without talking to anyone within the party. Indeed, Pilar Sánchez Acera He discovered it this Sunday when the information was published.
