The general secretary of the PSOE in Madrid, Juan Lobato, opened a crisis with Ferraz and with Moncloabut he still endures and is convinced that he will attend the Federal Congress of the PSOE, which is celebrated in Seville from this Friday, November 29 to December 1. Lobato is ready to resist and his intention, of course, is to attend this congress as head of delegation.
However, there are already important positions within the PSOE of Madrid that are press very hard to abandon this idea, as LaSexta learned. There are even activists who say that they are not going to go down the hall with Lobato in this congress. While the MP criticized the party leadership, Ferraz will not intervene.
This Tuesday, after the wait created by his decision, the leader of the Madrid socialists not only did not resign, but he accused the leaders of the party of a “lynching”“In addition, he even suggested that the email he sent to her from Moncloa – the email in which Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s boyfriend confessed to the two tax crimes – could have had an illicit origin.
They ask for a motion of confidence and summon the Regional Executive
The government preferred not to respond to Juan Lobato’s accusations, leaving that it is the Madrid socialists who are demanding his resignation. Among them, the PSOE spokesperson at Madrid City Hall, Reyes Maroto, has already asked Juan Lobato to submit to a motion of confidence: “We will demand from the Secretary General in this motion of confidence not only explanations but also responsibilities.”
The socialist spokesperson accused Lobato of being “disloyal” to the party, saying she would have done “things differently.” “Loyalty always counts and I think loyalty has been lacking,” he added. A few hours earlier, the government delegate in Madrid, Francisco Martín Aguirre, had also requested the emergency convening of the Regional Executive. “It’s serious. More solid explanations are needed. A regional executive commission should be convened as soon as possible,” he said.
The internal battle appears to be taking place only in Madrid, as no member of the PSOE leadership has criticized Lobato. The first vice-president of the government and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, limited herself to saying that “a You can’t get away from what’s really important in this topic.“Here there was a president of the Community of Madrid who lied,” he said, insisting on the slogan that they seek to divert attention to Ayuso and his partner.
