The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, accuses Moncloa of having attacked her through her partner. “It is clear that they orchestrated an affair from the office of the president of the government to try to destroy a political rival through her boyfriend,” he declared on Monday, after visiting the multinational Hyundai, in South Korea. South. The Madrid president insists on these accusations against the Central Executive and affirms that “this, in any democratic country, brings down the entire government”, according to a press release published by the regional government.
Ayuso made the statements after the newspaper ABC published that Juan Lobato, secretary general of the PSOE-M, allegedly refused to disclose during a plenary session of the Assembly the email of the lawyer of Alberto González Amador, associate of the president, with the alleged confessions of several tax crimes. This newspaper claims that it was Pilar Sánchez-Acera, chief of staff of the Minister of Digital Transformation and Public Service, Óscar López, who provided this document to the leader of the Madrid socialists. They also publish that Lobato recorded the conversation with Sánchez Acera before a notary on March 14, 2024. The visit to the notary took place in early November.
Lobato denies this information. The spokesperson for the Madrid Socialists issued a statement in which he assured that he did indeed go to a notary, but not for the reason indicated in the information from ABC. “I confirmed in front of a notary that neither the Madrid socialists nor Moncloa had received any information from the prosecutor’s office concerning Ms. Ayuso’s boyfriend,” he emphasizes. And he adds: “On the contrary, it is proven that all the information came from the media.”
The leader of the Madrid socialists emphasizes that “there is no conspiracy theory as the Madrid PP tries to explain”. “What exists are political tricks to try to prevent people from talking about the central problem, which is that this Friday Ayuso’s boyfriend declares himself accused of two tax offenses and falsification of documents”, indicates – he.
He did not consult the leadership of the PSOE
During an appearance before the media, Lobato confirmed that he had gone to the notary “by his own decision”. “I do not consult Ferraz or the party leadership,” he admitted. He took this decision after the opening of proceedings before the Supreme Court for leaking the contents of these emails. And he did it, as he explains, to prove that he did not have inside information: “To make it clear that in my region there have been no leaks from the prosecutor’s office general of the state.
The Madrid PP asks Lobato to make public this notarial deed in which, according to the version of the Madrid socialist leader, it is indicated that Sánchez Acera did not provide him with privileged information about González Amador. He insists that this documentation has already been published by the media and that they have only consulted this information.
“I do not see that it is appropriate to make public the content of a private conversation,” Lobato responded this Monday to the Madrid Assembly. He also explains that he left the notary’s office without a copy of the deed he had just registered. However, he emphasizes that it is the notary’s study that must detail why it was made public that he recorded these conversations with his party partner.
For her part, the president insists on her direct confrontation with the central government and emphasizes that Pedro Sánchez’s cabinet uses “the powers of the State, committing all kinds of illegalities to try to destroy the adversary.”
Ayuso defends his partner
The head of the Madrid executive indicated “that everything starts at the president’s table”. “Everything is always orchestrated by him and his environment. And it’s very serious, it’s very serious and I think I don’t know what else needs to happen to end a government disaster like this, which the legislature should never have even started “, he noted.
Later, in an interview on Cadena Cope, Ayuso defended her partner, whom she considers to be attacked by members of the government as if they were “thugs”. For the president, both “ministers” and “all types of positions” did not “hesitate to tarnish the name of an individual who does not have a photo on WhatsApp because he does not even have networks social, an individual who has nothing to do. with anything, the politics of no one, of nothing, who has not experienced it.
