Total war on the PSOE. The leader of the Socialists of Madrid, Juan Lobato, confronts the Federal Leadership of his party head-on 72 hours before a key Federal Congress for the future of the PSOE.
Lobato went to a notary a few weeks ago to register some messages he received from Moncloa with information from Ayuso’s boyfriend. It is precisely for this reason that Ferraz and Moncloa demanded his resignation. But this Tuesday, Lobato made it clear that he is staying and denounced a “lynching” by “certain leaders” of his party.
He now says it’s not clear to him whether the email they sent him, in which Ayuso’s boyfriend admitted to tax crimes, came from a media outlet, as he was told said. Lobato thus referred to the publication of ‘ABC’ this Monday in which he highlighted that the leak on the investigation for tax fraud against Alberto González Amador came directly from the Presidency and that Moncloa had tried to implicate Lobato. This left the messages with a notary that he exchanged with Pilar Sánchez Acera, then chief of staff of Óscar López, in which she sent him the email in which Ayuso’s partner admitted the tax crimes.
In fact, the current leader of the PSOE suggests that the origin of this email could have been different. What he lets slip is that his bosses lied to him or committed a crime – or both.
“Given the reaction of some leaders in my party, it seems that there was, in some way, a doubt about the veracity of what was said to me,” he said. “I do not consider this to be false because if the origin is different, it would be an attempt on my part to disseminate it with possibly irregular origins, with the legal and political consequences that this would have had,” he said. warned.
Lobato thus denounced a lynching by friendly fire and accused the leadership of his party of distorting everything to make him look like the bad guy. “In the end, it’s always the same story, they try to make people believe that the bad guy is the one who decides not to do things wrong,” said the socialist. SO, He maintains that he did everything righteven if at the moment he has not displayed the messages.
PSOE avoids evaluating Lobato’s performance
At the PSOE leadership, we avoid evaluating Lobato’s performance. The only ones to have spoken out are the socialist leaders of the Community of Madrid. While the PSOE spokesperson at Madrid City Hall, Reyes Maroto, considers that Lobato was disloyal to the party, the government delegate to the Community of Madrid, Francisco Martín, affirms that Your explanations were insufficient. Both require an executive to urgently submit to a question of confidence that could topple it.
The change in Juan Lobato’s speech is obvious. In less than 24 hours, he went from arguing that the document sent to him from Moncloa was legal because it came from a media outlet to saying that perhaps it wasn’t. and that Moncloa could have transmitted illicit information to him. In this way, Lobato implies that Moncloa sent him the email containing the confessions of Ayuso’s partner.
In the Federal Directory, this change of discourse was perceived as a total war. By Monday evening, they already considered Lobato dead – politically speaking. This Tuesday, they not only saw that he was not politically dead, but that stood up to Ferraz. It is for this reason that socialist sources tell laSexta that they are outraged because he speaks of “lynching” and because he insinuates that the Government could process this illicit information. Ferraz also believes that this decision left Lobato alone.
Ferraz and Moncloa want the head of Juan Lobato and they want it before the Federal Congress this weekend, but dismissing him is not easy because they have little room for maneuver. The possibility that half the executive plus one would resign and thus cause the departure of the general secretary was eliminated by Pedro Sánchez himself because that is what they did to him.
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