The frantic 72 hours between Ferraz and Juan Lobato following emails from Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s boyfriend ended Lobato’s leadership of the Madrid Socialists. Barely two days before the PSOE Federal Congress, and after a few days of tension between the party and Lobato, he announced on Wednesday that He is no longer general secretary of the PSOE of Madrid.
The socialist decided that it was better to leave and made it known in a 14-paragraph letter with a restrained tone and very serious accusations to convey his vision of what happened in the bowels of the PSOE. The former general secretary of the Madrid socialists says he is leaving it “for put an end to a conflict situation and the serious division that was occurring within the party.”
Lobato communicated this decision after this Tuesday will give Ferraz a fightclings to the General Secretariat and criticizes the “lynching” of his party leaders. Ferraz and Moncloa demanded her resignation after learning that Lobato had gone to a notary a few weeks ago to record some messages she had received from Moncloa with information about Ayuso’s boyfriend.
“I made the decision not to continue”transferred his activism to the said letter. He thus puts an end to the practically unanimous voices within the PSOE-M who demanded his head after having “betrayed” the party.
So in his letter, Lobato sent another message to his colleagues. He assures that he does not believe “in the destruction of the adversary, in the annihilation of those who do not agree and those who think differently”. And he further insists that “his way of doing politics is not the same – nor perhaps sometimes compatible – with that of the majority of the current party leadership”.
La Moncloa wanted to get rid of Lobato and the socialist finally decided to resign. Although the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, avoided answering LaSexta’s questions about what he thinks of this resignation, several PSOE leaders and government ministers assure that They “respect” your decision which they consider “personal”.
Although in public they wanted to show their greatest respect, socialist sources recognize in private that, without doubt, it was the “best decision I could make” Lobato, both personally and for the party. Within the PSOE they also recognize that they feared that Lobato would not appear in Seville on Friday for the Federal Congress. This way, The socialists consider the crisis resolved.
The truth is that Lobato’s decision was not a surprise for either Moncloa or Ferraz. The former secretary general of the PSOE in Madrid contacted a person from the party this Wednesday morning to whom he announced his decision. As laSexta has learned, even those closest to Lobato recognize that he made a big mistake and that it was difficult to continue without support.
Lobato will maintain his record as a deputy and his seat in the Senate
In addition to the public letter, Juan Lobato said goodbye in a message from his colleagues in the Madrid executive of the PSOE. In the text to which LaSexta had access, Lobato announces that this Wednesday “my mandate as secretary general of Madrid ends”. “I would like to thank you for the work you have done and the efforts made to get the party back on its feet after going through its worst moment following the 2021 election results. Thank you for your opinions, criteria and initiatives. I encourage you to continue with your commitment and your work in this new stage A hug, Juan”, he continued.
Although Lobato lost that battle, he has so far given no signs that he will abandon politics and, as LaSexta has learned, He does not intend to leave his deputy file or his seat in the Senate.
The story of a political death
After three agonizing days of maximum voltage In the socialist ranks, Juan Lobato is already the story of the Madrid PSOE. The earthquake was triggered last Monday with the publication of ‘ABC’ in which it was stated that Moncloa leaked the secret document about Ayuso’s boyfriend and tried to implicate Lobato, the socialist tries to explain how this conversation with a senior government official took place and admitted to having recorded some messages from March of that same month before a notary when, he said, the proceedings against the Attorney General began.
In the WhatsApp that he showed to the notary, there was a screenshot of the email from Ayuso’s boyfriend’s lawyer acknowledging the tax crimes. At first, Lobato maintained that the media and not the prosecution were behind the leak, but the next day he was no longer so clear. All this pushed Ferraz to demand his resignation and he, for his part, accused them of “lynching”. This Wednesday, an event was planned in Tetuán, where Sánchez began his activism, but it was canceled this morning a few hours before Lobato announced his resignation.
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