Juan Lobato resigns from his position as secretary general of the PSOE of Madrid after the ABC exclusive. The until now leader of the Madrid socialists, who denounced this Tuesday a “lynching” on the part of the leaders of his party, assured this Wednesday in a letter that he had taken this decision “to put an end to a situation of “Serious confrontation and division that was generated in the game.”
Lobato’s situation as secretary general of the PSOE of Madrid was untenable, since he had lost the support and trust not only of the national leadership, but also of a good part of his regional executive, of the parliamentary and municipal group of Madrid and other leaders. , mayors, councilors and party leaders in the region. The majority agreed that could not access the federal congress this weekend in Seville.
ABC’s information, about La Moncloa’s maneuvers to leak confidential data from Ayuso’s boyfriend and try to use Lobato for this and use it against President Ayuso, was the trigger of the whole party crisis in Madrid. Lobato tried to explain why he had gone to the notary to record the conversation he had with Óscar López’s chief of staff in Moncloa, about the information on Ayuso’s partner, but he did not only succeeded in sowing confusion throughout his party. Precisely, next Friday, he will be summoned as a witness before the Supreme Court, to explain the content of the conversation he had before the notary.
Lobato made his resignation letter public this Wednesday, after 2 p.m., after making a statement to the media on Tuesday for denounce “lynching” that he suffered from his party, to warn that no one and no political party is above the law and to emphasize that the PSOE is not a sect, but “a party of activists”.
His resignation letter begins as follows: “I have made the decision not to continue as secretary general of the PSOE of Madrid. I do it for put an end to a situation of serious confrontation and division If this happened in the party, it would only harm the PSOE of Madrid and the progress in unity that we had made during these three years. My goal has always been to build an ambitious and hopeful project for Madrid, and this should continue to be the case in the future.
The until now leader of the Madrid socialists distances himself from this policy which consists of annihilating the adversary: “I don’t believe in destroying the adversaryin the annihilation of those who disagree and those who think differently. I insist: for me, politics is something else. And loyalty to my party means working to implement its principles, what it has represented for more than 145 years: equality, freedom, democracy, education and public health, the defense of most vulnerable, leave no one behind.”
Lobato also distances himself from the leadership of his party, with Sánchez at its head: “None of us are essential. It is far more important at any time to protect and promote good policy than those of us who exercise it circumstantially. Without a doubt, my way of doing politics is not the same or perhaps sometimes compatible with that of a majority of the current leadership of my party. No problem. I assume it democratically. But I can’t give up being who I am and what I’ve always been.
In his letter, he assures that he is leaving the leadership, but not the PSOE, where he will continue to campaign: “My commitment to the PSOE remains and will continue to be there. Today, I am taking a step towards leadership. But you have my commitment that at each future step that corresponds I will assume my responsibility as an activist to help the party continue working to improve people’s lives.
