In Ferraz they are stunned after the leader of the PSOE from Madrid, Juan Lobatoavoided resigning and remained steadfast in the fact that he made the right choice in take messages to the notary in which Moncloa sent him the confession of Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s boyfriend. The still regional leader, who claims he was told he got it from the media, also said it would be “very serious” if it was false.
An explosive statement lasting just over two minutes which stunned the socialists, because everyone thought Lobato was going to resign. They argued that it was the only worthy solution they had after the disorder of the day before, when the newspaper ‘ABC’ published that the leak on the trial against Alberto González Amador, partner of the president of Madrid, came directly from the Presidency and that Moncloa had tried to involve Lobato, who decided to register it before a notary.
Now they consider his decision not to resign to be a real boost for the party and the government. In addition to being stunned, they are unworthy: Socialist sources consulted by laSexta assure that Lobato has not yet explained why he went to the notary nor why he committed what they consider to be disloyalty to the party. Also because Lobato speaks of “lynching”: in this sense, we wonder which federal or regional leader has publicly spoken ill of him in recent hours.
Publicly, the government does not speak out. Asked Tuesday about Lobato, María Jesús Montero asked not to distract attention from “what is important”: the chief of staff of the Madrid president, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, “lied about the procedural situation of Ayuso’s boyfriend “. “What is important in this case is that there was a president of the Community of Madrid who lied, as did her chief of staff, about the procedural situation of her boyfriend, her companion,” he said. simply declared the first vice president.
The same sources assure that Lobato did not assume that no longer has any support at the PSOE in Madrid. But why don’t we cut off his head? The truth is that in the PSOE they have very little or no room for maneuver: There is no time, because the federal congress of the PSOE will take place in just 72 hours. This means that the executive will cease office in three days and will not have the power to clip Lobato’s wings.
Furthermore, in Ferraz They’re not going to get into this mess. They don’t want to repeat an operation like the one they did with Tomás Gómez.
Yes, the path of article six of the statutes could be activated: promoting a motion against Lobato by the Regional Committee which should be supported by more than 50% of the votes and submitted to the vote of activists within a month. However, this schedule coincides with the schedule of primary at the PSOE in Madrid. So, after his statements on Tuesday, they assume that he will participate in these primaries and that is what they hope.
