Juan Lobato wants to continue ordering Moncloa and he hopes that it will be the activists who will keep him as secretary general of the PSOE in Madrid. The former mayor of Soto del Real hopes to suffer the same fate as Pedro Sánchez during the primaries against Susana Díaz in 2017 and become “the man in front of the camera”.
A movement that has been working for almost a year and a half with meetings with all the groups and which it plans to organize in Seville. And the general secretary of the Madrid socialists is ready to go to Federal Congress in Seville while being aware that many internal voices in his party (even in his own delegation) do not want him there.
What Lobato intends to achieve is to clearly mark a profile of “capricious” and, even if it is with photographs marking his solitude within this National Congress, to make the activists (who are, after all, those who vote in the elections) to the general secretary) who is the voice contrary to the party machinery.
The summons to the Supreme Court next Friday at 10 a.m. does not change Lobato’s strategy of continuing his agenda and going down to the Seville, although many do not recommend it. During this meeting, he will record the WhatsApp messages that he recorded before a notary and in which the right arm of Óscar López, Pilar Sanchez Acera, allegedly provided him with confidential information related to the legal proceedings in which Alberto González Amador, boyfriend of Isabel Diaz Ayuso.
The situation will not be at all comfortable for Lobato and his friends. His entry into Congress will be scrutinized and, as he learned Total Madrid, many members of his Executive will not come to support him in this entry.
In fact, big names like Sara Hernández, mayor of Getafe, or Javier Ayala, mayor of Fuenlabrada, They will not even go to the dinner that the PSOE of Madrid organized this same Friday and during which they intend to unify the Madrid delegation.
This is why many Lobato supporters, although close to his ideas of moving forward, do not want to take for granted that they will go down to the Seville. Even though in the morning they were more than sure to come, as the hours passed, their morale began to fade. People very close to the Madrid secretary general asked him for “head”.
Like Pedro Sánchez
His solitude in Seville will also be added to the attitude displayed during this Tuesday’s press conference. There he filed a complaint directly against Moncloa sowing doubt as to whether the emails sent to him that Wednesday in March came from the media, as he had initially stated, or from the prosecution itself, which is under investigation.
In this way, he “arms” his profile and not the device. A strategy similar to that carried out by Pedro Sánchez when he left the party in 2016 to run again in the primaries in 2017 and obtain the support of activists. The “difference” between Lobato and Sánchez –insist many people close to the Madrid leader, is that the latter has not left the party. But it’s true that they don’t give you the dates.
And all the disorder within the PSM occurs at the gates of a regional congress during which Madrid’s socialists must elect their next leader. Many believed that, this Tuesday, Little He was going to walk out the door and leave, leaving Ferraz’s “white blackbird” with a choice on a plate. But Lobato decided to resist.
He does this knowing that he does not have the support of a large part of his executive. Knowing that the big mayors are not on his side and that even close friends have asked him to step down. But the former mayor of Soto of Real He believes he can still convince the activists.
In the corridors of Madrid Assembly They accuse him of wanting to “dynatomize the party” from within, of being “selfish” and of having “sold” a colleague (in reference to Sánchez Acera, the person with whom the messages recorded in the notary’s office). ) .
The strategy of Lobato and those close to him has been in the works for some time. The socialist visited all the small groups. From city to city. Meet members and listen to the demands of those who, as a general rule, are left out of the media.
Furthermore, and as this newspaper published, Little He has expanded his presence in the media where he regularly hosts talk shows, thus gaining visibility among citizens. Likewise, this summer Lobato published his own magazine for activists in the purest style of that of the national PSOE, The socialist. Something they don’t have in other delegations.
He Seville Congress This is the start of a critical week for Juan Lobato in which he is expected to be supported by many more people than he makes visible. That of Madrid is the second largest delegation of socialist families in Spain and the fact that its general secretary does not seem supported is not a good image.
However, Ferraz insists that Lobato has no voice or position in any of the events or tables coordinated during the Congress. What does this mean? That there will be no image of you beyond the one they are looking for in your own team.
Very strong names from the Madrid PSOE, like Noelia Posse, Pilar Sánchez Acera or even Oscar Lopez They did not even attend the Seville Congress under the aegis of the Madrid delegation; but national. All this, although they are all PSM activists.
Ignoring his presence on the part of Ferraz and the fact that going down to Seville is more detrimental than beneficial for Lobato is a more than plausible option and that his critics consider. This is why no one wants to move and they insist: “We will have to wait until Friday”.
