Juan Lobato is not like Begoña Gómez. Unlike Sánchez’s wife, he completed his studies in law and business administration and management at the Autonomous University of Madrid and passed the treasury technician exams, although he had little practice , because he immediately entered politics. Affiliated with the PSOE Youth since the age of 15, he began to be a municipal councilor of Soto del Real at the age of barely 18, at 30 he was mayor and at 37 he became general secretary of the PSOE from Madrid. Lobato is not stupid, but Isabel Díaz Ayuso and Pedro Sánchez crossed their path and it would be difficult to say which of the two has done more damage to his brilliant political career, which is about to end.
On the morning of March 14, during the plenary session of the Madrid Assembly, Lobato stood up in front of Ayuso and carried out the orders he had received a few hours before from Pilar Sánchez Acera, who was chief of staff of Oscar Lopez. who in turn was Pedro Sánchez’s chief of staff. As spokesperson for the PSOE of MadridJuan Lobato took out of his wallet the confidential email exchanged between the prosecution and the lawyer of Alberto González Amador, Ayuso’s partner, thus trying to prove that the president of the Community of Madrid was lying.
Lobato is not stupid, but when following the instructions of suspected criminals, even the smartest ones make mistakes. And Lobato made the mistake that morning of showing the original document that Pedro Sánchez’s chief of staff had sent him early in the morning, and not the one already published by the press of the time with the watermarks of media. he took care of breaking into what was nothing more than a likely criminal escape.
This is why the version he gave later in which he tries to make believe that Moncloa and himself obtained through the press a document for the leak of which the Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz , is under investigation, the one that the UCO of the Civil Guard claims to have had a “preeminent participation in the events which ultimately led to the flight”. Document which, moreover, was only published an hour after the conversation between Juan Lobato and Pilar Sánchez Acera, when the PSOE spokesperson refused to show the document if it had not been published before.
Several months after that March 14, Lobato made another mistake when he got scared and He went to the notary to record this conversationright after the Attorney General’s indictment, the absurd explanations he gives on this subject make no sense. Applying logic and common sense that we should brag about a politician who we know is not stupid, there are only two non-exclusive possibilities. Either Lobato thought that Moncloa could accuse him of being the one who leaked to the press the confidential communication that they themselves had sent to him, or he thought that he could use these messages against the leadership of his party if ultimately , and as everything seems to indicate, they tried to dismiss him from the General Secretariat of the PSOE-M, to replace him with the same Óscar López, from whose office they sent him the document. There are no more.
Whatever your motivation, The Supreme Court summoned him as a witness so that this same Friday he can provide said notarized document in the case in which the Attorney General is investigating. As a witness, Lobato is obliged to declare the truth and collaborate with Justice, which will strengthen the seat of Pedro Sánchez, on which both Óscar López and Álvaro García Ortiz depend. We will see if all those investigated agree to be condemned for covering up “El 1”, or if someone else turns out, like Juan Lobato, to be less stupid.
