Although Tuesday Juan Lobato stood up to Ferraz, he ultimately could not resist the pressure from the PSOE, which pushed him to resign. The current secretary general of the PSOE of Madrid announced by surprise this Wednesday his resignation from all his positions.
The reason given is to “put an end to a situation of confrontation and serious division which was occurring within the party”. It’s been an eventful four days in which Lobato deployed an erratic strategy face the action that ultimately led to his death: his recording before a notary of a conversation during which a senior Moncloa official sent him a confidential and incriminating email from the boyfriend of Isabel Diaz Ayuso.
It is not known whether this accreditation was a demonstration of integrity on the part of the Madrid socialist or a simple defensive reaction, anticipating that he could be involved in the crime of revealing secrets. But the truth is that Lobato’s fight against Ferraz, after changing versions several times, was fleeting.
If on Tuesday he chose to raise the flag of honesty against the apparatus (and the PSOE to suspend hostilities until after the Federal Congress this weekend in Seville), it seems that Lobato has measured that the evaporation of his support among the bases since Sunday, his only possibility of resistance, which was to win the vote of the activists, was not viable.
But the most important thing about Lobato’s resignation letter is that it suggests that he remained alone in the PSOE also in matters of rectitude.
Nothing else can be gleaned from his defense of a policy that “has honesty at its essence.” A way of doing politics which, according to the Madrid politician, is perhaps not “compatible with what the majority of the current leadership of my party has”.
Lobato’s resignation letter can only be read as a setback that leaves the PSOE in an ignominious situation.. His rejection of the “destruction of the adversary” and the “annihilation of those who disagree” unequivocally shows that his party has become a war machine dedicated to immoral practices.
The PSOE exposed itself by accusing Lobato of “betraying” his organization and of having shown a “lack of loyalty”.
Doesn’t it follow from these reproaches that the party excommunicated one of its members for the sole reason that it wanted to ensure that he was not doing something illegal?
Where is Ferraz when the “betrayal” of which he accuses Lobato can only be understood as a reprimand for revealing that they had lied to him by assuring him that the information on the tax crimes of Ayuso’s boyfriend came from the media and not the media. a leak from the floor?
Lobato defended that “loyalty to my party consists of working to implement its principles”, and not the blind obedience that the PSOE understands as loyalty.
From now on, a manager will temporarily lead the party, leaving the way clear for Óscar López to be the only candidate in the next primaries of the Madrid federation.
But, In a subtle way, Lobato left the door open for a possible return: In his letter, he did not specify whether he would leave his deputy file nor did he categorically exclude the possibility of running in the primaries.
Which would be consistent with the parallel candidacy that has been developing for more than a year among small Madrid groups. Lobato wanted to embody “respect and education in politics.” And therefore, it represents a conception of politics antithetical to the polarizing warmongering of Sanchism.
With his resignation, it was proven that, as if to turn the joke on its head, Lobato is not a suicidal driver: It is the entire PSOE which is moving in the opposite direction.
