The war within the PSOE of Madrid began and the first explosions caused serious injuries on both sides, including in the Moncloa Palace, where it was decided a few months ago to prepare for hostilities. The battle promises to be very bloody.
Pedro Sanchez wants that Oscar Lopez fight against Juan Lobato take control of the PSOE of Madrid and lead the candidacy in the next regional elections against Isabel Diaz Ayuso. This will happen after the Federal Congress of the PSOE which will take place this weekend in Seville and Lobato has made it known that he will resist tooth and nail.
And in this context, we know that Lobato took her messages to a notary with the person who until recently was chief of staff of Óscar López in La Moncloa, in which she reported the email to him in which Alberto Gonzalez AmadorAyuso’s boyfriend, proposed to the prosecutor an agreement to close his procedure for tax fraud, as published yesterday ABC.
According to Moncloa’s version, all this is due to Lobato’s decision to resist the appointment by Sánchez to replace the current Minister of Digital Transformation and, until September, chief of staff of the President of the Government. They see the start of the war for control of Spain’s most turbulent socialist federation in years.
“Lobato shot himself in the foot”say sources from Moncloa, who say they are surprised and very upset by the decision of the leader of the Madrid socialists to take the conversation with a notary to a notary. Pilar Sánchez AceraLópez’s right-hand man until September.
But, in reality, this shot that Moncloa and Ferraz are talking about followed many trajectories and not only harmed Lobato, but perhaps fundamentally harmed the presidency of the government, just at the moment of greatest weakness and uncertainties such as the triggering of Abalos affair and the complaints of Victor de Aldama. One more threat hanging over Sánchez’s head, a few days before the PSOE Federal Congress.
Lobato will have to go to Supreme Court hand over to the judge the notarial deed containing the messages exchanged with Sánchez Acera and could compromise Moncloa if it is proven that the email of Ayuso’s boyfriend was disclosed with his proposed pact to the prosecutor.
For the Presidency of the Government, it would be very compromising if it were demonstrated that it manipulated this document subject to confidentiality between lawyer and prosecutor to negotiate an agreement.
It should be remembered that the state attorney general is already accused of having leaked the contents of this email to the media. Sánchez took the risk of supporting García Ortiz and now, on top of that, the situation is complicated by Lobato’s messages.
“Ayuso and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez are happy today for what we gave them,” said a senior Moncloa official.
Suspicions against Lobato
According to the official version, Sánchez Acera is Secretary for Municipal Policies within the executive of the PSOE of Madrid and was deputy spokesperson in the Madrid Assembly, under Lobato.
They explain that every Thursday Sánchez Acera sends Lobato data or suggestions to face Ayuso in the control session of the Madrid Assembly. “Send me criteria, ideas and proposals“, says Lobato himself.
Moncloa’s version is that in this state he made it clear to Lobato that he could question Ayuso on this issue, using personal emails already published in the media. Lobato himself insisted this Monday in different media that he had not received anything that was not published.
The problem with this coincidental version of Moncloa and Lobato is to be able to understand why the leader of the PSOE of Madrid referred to alleged information already published to the notary.
They differ in the sense that Moncloa and the federal leadership of the PSOE are wary of Lobato’s actions. They explain, for example, that only Lobato himself and the notary have some knowledge of the deed before the notary and therefore it is not difficult to suspect who registered it.
This episode, which has only just begun, arouses particular concern within the PSOE leadership about what could happen in the coming weeks in the federations in which Sánchez wants to impose a change of direction. For example, Castile and León, Andalusia, Extremadura, Aragon or La Riojaamong others.
Sánchez’s relationship with Madrid’s PSOE has been full of surprises. He already managed to put an end to the then leader of the PSOE in Madrid years ago Tomas Gomez; he then established himself as a candidate Angel Gabilondo and then their candidate was defeated by Lobato. Now the war is coming back.
