The former secretary general of the PSOE-M who resigned this week, Juan Lobato, reappeared this Friday to testify before the Supreme Court (TS) in the case in which the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, is accused . A few words to the media after testifying before the investigating judge Angel HurtadoLobato assured that he had collaborated with Justice and added: “Socialists, truth and right are always ahead.”
Furthermore, he assured that he was “calm” after having “proved what he had to prove”.
The case against García Ortiz concerns his alleged revelation of secrets linked to the email in which the friend of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, would have admitted to the commission of several tax offenses.
This email is precisely the centerpiece of the departure of Lobato from the General Secretariat of the Madrid Socialists. The former mayor of Soto del Real resigned from his position as “leader” of the PSOE-M on Wednesday after learning that he had recorded a WhatsApp conversation in front of a notary in which a Moncloa official sent him this document.
This link with the central government was Pilar Sánchez Acerachief of staff of the Minister of Digital Transformation and the Civil Service, Oscar Lopezand who was considered a possible rival supported by Ferraz for dethrone him from the leadership of the Madrid socialists during a primary.
During his appearance as a witness, Lobato handed over his cell phone and the notarial deed with the messages where Pilar Sánchez Pavement He offered González Amador’s email address. The case instructor kept the documentation to verify it, reports Europa Press.
Events began to accelerate on Monday, when the news of the notarial registration became known. On Tuesday, Lobato clung to his position, a castling that ended Wednesday, when he resigned – as he put it – avoid the “split” of the party. As events unfolded, Voices within the party calling for his resignation after the “betrayal” have multiplied.
That same Monday, after the press conference at the Madrid Assembly in which he assured that the email had been sent to him and that he had gone to the notary to register it, the instructor of the file against the TS State Attorney General summoned Lobato considering he could shed light on the matter.
He warned him that he had to bring a copy of the report of the notarial acts, in which, according to ‘ABC’, it seems that the message from Sánchez Acera arrived before the publication of the document in the press, notably in ‘ El Plural’. .
