A few minutes after eight a.m., March 14, 2024, Pilar Sánchez Acerathen chief of staff of Oscar Lopezin turn chief of staff of Pedro Sanchez At that time he spoke WhatsApp with him until this Wednesday the leader of the Madrid socialists, Juan Lobato.
Sánchez’s right-hand man sent Lobato confidential information about Alberto Gonzalez Amador (a few Isabel Diaz Ayuso), where his lawyer admitted two tax offenses. These mobile messages gave a new twist to the history of Madrid socialism.
Although until Sunday Pilar Sánchez Acera was practically unknown outside Madrid politics, she was always there. Political columns 15 years ago called her a “second lady of luxury”. He knows very well how the game works.
Born in Madrid in 1974 and graduated in Economics and Commerce from the Autonomous University, she worked in a bank and is the mother of three daughters.
What defines her is her long career in the PSOE, where she began serving in the Socialist youth. At 18, she was already general secretary of Juventudes de Alcobendas.
The first public position she obtained was 25 years ago, when she was appointed municipal councilor of Alcobendas Town Hall (1999-2003) then deputy mayor (2003-2007).
That year, 2007, he made the big leap into regional politics after winning the trust of Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba And Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapaterothen president of the government and secretary general of the PSOE. During these years in the Assembly he acquired a certain notoriety by becoming the battering ram of the PSM against the president of the Community of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre.
Faithful squire of Rubalcaba and therefore of Ferraz, she supported Trinidad Jiménez in the 2010 primaries, an election that Tomás Gómez ultimately won. His punishment: he was excluded from the 2011 regional lists for the Madrid Assembly.
A year later he tried revenge and he ran against Tomás Gómez in the primaries to lead the PSM as an alternative rubalcabista. It was undoubtedly a gamble by Ferraz, but this adventure once again failed as Gómez won with almost 60% of the votes.
Three years later, with Pedro Sánchez at the head of the Socialists, a new political life arrived for Pilar Sánchez Acero. In 2015, Ferraz fired Gómez due to the Parla Tram scandal.
Sánchez Acera, on the other hand, had more luck in the match. Sánchez saved her and appointed her deputy spokesperson of the PSOE in the Assembly, already with Angel Gabilondo at the head of the parliamentary group. And he revalidated his seat during the following legislature, under the Juan Lobato era. In fact, at the PSOE in Madrid, since this Wednesday in the hands of a manager after the departure of Lobato, Sánchez Acera held the position of secretary of institutional policy.
She resigned from her position as member of the Assembly in December 2022 to be part of the Moncloa organizational chart. In January 2023, she became chief of staff of Oscar Lopezin turn director of the Cabinet of Pedro Sánchez. Today, Óscar López, Minister of Digital Transformation, succeeds Lobato within the Madrid federation.
