This Monday, we knew that Juan Lobato legalized the messages in which the chief of staff of Oscar Lopez allegedly sent her confidential information about her boyfriend Isabel Diaz Ayuso.
It is not possible at the moment to conclude with certainty what the motivation of the secretary general of the PSOE of Madrid was when submitting the WhatsApp messages exchanged with Pilar Sánchez-Acera at a notary in Madrid last October.
The first hypothesis is that Lobato would have done it to escape competition from Minister Óscar Lópezthat Moncloa intends to impose as parachutist at the head of the General Secretariat of the PSOE-M at the next regional congress, replacing Lobato himself.
The second hypothesis is that his intention was to avoid being affected by the trial opened by the Supreme Court to the Attorney General of the State for an alleged crime of revealing secrets. And ensure that by showing the Madrid Assembly the screenshot of confidential communications between the defense of Gonzalez Amador and the prosecutor responsible for economic crimes, he cannot be blamed for having participated in the leak of the emails for which he is the subject of an investigation. Álvaro Garcia Ortiz.
This is the version that Lobato defended, ensuring that, with the notarized report of his conversation with the number two of Óscar López, wanted to prove that neither the PSOE-M nor the government had received a leak from the prosecutor’s office, but that “all the information came from the media”.
But whatever your intention, The result of this action was to put Moncloa on the brink of collapse..
Because Lobato will have to testify this Friday before the investigating judge in the trial against the attorney general. And during his appearance, he will have to provide a copy of the record of the notarial statements he made regarding the alleged revelation of the incriminating emails from Ayuso’s partner.
The subpoena is expected to clarify whether the screenshot of the email Sánchez-Acera sent to Lobato on the morning of March 14 actually came from the media outlets that pulled it the night before, as claimed. the socialist. Or if, on the contrary, the document was in the possession of the number two of Óscar López before, with the possibility that it was even she who disclosed it to the media affiliated with Moncloa who echoed it.
SO, government participation in the crime of revealing secrets could be demonstrated. It would therefore no longer be a leak from the prosecution, or at most from the Ministry of Finance, but rather from the presidency of the government itself. We must not forget that López was at that time the chief of staff of Pedro Sanchez.
The fact that it appeared that Lobato received secret information from Moncloa especially highlights Óscar López and his chief of staff, who could fall within the scope of criminal responsibilities.
But even if he Molotov Cocktail launched by Lobato was initially directed towards López, ended up having a total impact on the Palace of Moncloa. At the PSOE, according to EL ESPAÑOL today, it is considered that the Madrid leader has put the president in serious trouble.
Because it’s possible that the government could be accused of one of the worst crimes a public official can commit. And he would be proven to have bastardly used the powers of the state to harass a private citizen in order to civilly destroy a political opponent.
