Paradoxes of life. The change in status which Pedro Sanchez introduced in 2017 to protect his position after regaining the leadership of the PSOE is the obstacle that Ferraz now faces to oust Juan Lobato immediately. The leader of Madrid’s socialists refused to resign after declaring that La Moncloa sent her an email containing confidential information about her boyfriend Isabel Diaz Ayuso, to show it on the Assembly of Madrid. Lobato refused to do so and filed these messages before a notary. Many socialists predicted a resignation that did not happen, and now, Ferraz It has no instrument in its statutes that allows it to dismiss Lobato before the Federal Commission which opens this Friday.
Until Federal Congress In 2017, Lobato’s dismissal could have occurred if more than half of his executive members had resigned, which would have automatically resulted in the creation of a manager. However, during this meeting, Pedro Sanchezsecretary general of the PSOE, modified the internal regulations after noting how his adversaries tried to use it against him by 2016before finally resigning.
Before Sánchez modified these statutes, in the PSOE There were two mechanisms for doing this. The first, if more than half of the members of the executive have submitted their resignation and, the second, if the corresponding commission has approved a motion of censure. With the new regulations, the committee can only begin the revocation process, but it will be the members who, through obligatory consultation and within a maximum period of one month, will have to ratify or reject the revocation of the mandate of the secretary general.
This latter procedure is provided for in article six of the statutes, which provides for actions regarding the dismissal of the general secretary. It specifies that 50% of the votes of the federal committee, or the regional committee, will be able to begin the process of censorship of the general secretaries elected during the primaries. “Once agreed and within one month, it must be approved by the activists and the direct affiliation, where applicable, of the corresponding territorial area during a consultation”, read the statutes, which also indicate that if this motion of censure succeeds, a director would be formed.
Juan Lobato He opposed the “lynching and lies of certain PSOE leaders” and refuses to resign. The last 24 hours have opened the war between Littlehe Government And Ferrazafter the Madrid socialist claimed that La Moncloa had sent him an email containing confidential information about the boyfriend of Isabel Diaz Ayuso, to show it on the Assembly of Madrid. Lobato refused to do so and filed these messages before a notary. Now the party is making a bed for it because it considers that by formalizing this document, it has given the image of “selling its own”.
The government against Lobato
The government considers that Lobato went to the notary to record a conversation with the minister’s chief of staff, Oscar Lopezto have an asset to defend themselves, in case they wanted to remove him from the leadership of the party. They also emphasize that it is a stupid decision because it harms him and the rest of the people involved and they see him “trapped” after refusing to resign.
This is the explanation that some members of the Executive find for the decision of the leader of the Madrid socialists, who last March received Pilar Sánchez Acerto the email containing the personal data of the boyfriend of the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, by which an alleged revelation of secrets of the State Attorney General’s Office.
Sánchez Acera is López’s right-hand man, who at the time was the president’s chief of staff. Pedro Sanchezbut Lobato decided to go to the notary a few months later, in November, once the judicial investigation was opened for revealing secrets against the attorney general, Alvaro Garcia Ortiz. Lobato claimed he did this to prove that the document he received came from the media and was not a leak from the Public Ministrybut in Moncloa, they think it was a strategy to protect themselves or to be able to apply pressure if they tried to remove it.
