Lobato had decided to resign since Monday night

That is a recommendation that was made to him from that very day, and they were people he trusted most, and on Monday night it was the most plausible option. That is why ABC informed its readers that Lobato was considering resigning. But someone who had influence over him asked him a question: «Have you done something wrong? No, so hold on and go to the primaries.

In the morning, he made the decision to wait, probably influenced by messages sent to him by those who thought that the problem that arose after the ABC information was not in him, but in La Moncloa. And he called that appearance without questions of two minutes and fifty seconds which public opinion did not understand very well, but which represented a rectification regarding his messages in the media on Monday morning.

After hours of explanations that were diluted and in the face of internal pressure to withdraw from the leadership of the party in Madrid, Lobato appeared before the media that Tuesday and, far from resigning, denounced the internal “lynching” that was being carried out. seeing subdued. Finally, just one day later and after acknowledging in a letter the “serious confrontation and division that was being generated in the party,” he presented his resignation.

This is the Detailed chronology of the fall of Juan Lobatofrom the moment the fiscal problems of the couple of the president of the Community of Madrid come to light until 2:20 p.m. this Wednesday, when she announced her resignation. Nearly 72 frantic hours since ABC published its exclusive Sunday night:

Although the case had become known a day before, when ‘eldiario.es’ revealed that Díaz Ayuso’s partner had been denounced for the commission of several crimes, on March 13 ‘El Mundo’ published that the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office had “offered “a pact” to Alberto González Amador in exchange for him pleading guilty to an alleged tax fraud of 350,000 euros.

That same March 13, ‘La Sexta’ contradicts the newspaper ‘El Mundo’ and reports that it was González Amador’s lawyer, Carlos Neira, who offered the Prosecutor’s Office a compliant agreement, and not the other way around. Around midnight, ‘Cadena Ser’ expands on this information and reveals that the lawyer offered an agreement to the Prosecutor’s Office after acknowledging that “two crimes have certainly been committed against the Public Treasury.” The media cites quoted extracts from the email that Neira sends to the Prosecutor’s Office.

Although this same information is published in different media, none reproduces the confidential document. That is the content of one of the messages – a photograph of the confession sent by González Amador’s lawyer to the prosecutor in the case – that Óscar López’s Chief of Staff sends to the leader of the PSOE-M to be shown on the Madrid camera. morning of March 14. Lobato refuses and López’s right-hand man tells him not to worry, that he would pass it on to “Angélica Rubio, the journalist who found out about Judge Peinado’s two ID cards”; who at that time directed ‘elplural.com’ and who, months later, would be placed by the PSOE on the Board of Directors of RTVE.

It was not until more than an hour later when that newspaper, at 9:06 a.m., published the document. The headline reads like this: “This is the letter from the lawyer of Ayuso’s boyfriend asking for an agreement from the Prosecutor’s Office.” Inside the news, the newspaper finally publishes an image with the lawyer’s letter. That is, the document is made public after Óscar López’s Chief of Staff decided to leak it to ‘elplural.com’.

The Supreme Court charges the State Attorney General (FGE), Álvaro García Ortiz, for the alleged crime of revealing secrets in the case of Ayuso’s boyfriend. It becomes the first FGE investigated by the High Court.

Although the attorney general’s indictment shook the political debate, it would be days later, on October 30, when a turning point occurred in the case. That day, the Supreme Court ordered the UCO of the Civil Guard to enter and search García Ortiz’s office and empty and seize his devices. The week following the registration, Lobato visited the notary.

This newspaper advances in its digital edition information that will be on the front page on Monday, November 25, which headlines: “Moncloa leaked the secret document of Ayuso’s boyfriend and tried to implicate Lobato.” In it, the details were offered of how Pedro Sánchez’s right-hand man, through his Chief of Staff, would have given Lobato the confidential document of Ayuso’s partner to try to act against her.

That same Sunday night, Lobato confronts the ABC exclusive and issues a statement on the Bluesky social network denying that information because he only certified before a notary that “neither the Madrid socialists nor Moncloa had received any information from the Prosecutor’s Office.” He defends that same version the next morning, in different television interviews, although throughout the day he modifies his explanations.

This newspaper publishes a second installment with the meeting that the journalists of this house Juan Fernández-Miranda and Javier Chicote had with the general secretary of the PSOE of Madrid, in which he acknowledged the facts. “That was what you said,” he told ABC journalists.

Faced with internal criticism from his party and information published in different media pointing to his resignation, Juan Lobato calls a press appearance at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, but does not resign. Instead, he defers to the PSOE leadership, denounces an internal “lynching” and warns: “It seems that the bad guy is the one who decides not to do things wrong.”

The words of the then leader of the PSOE-M are not liked in the party and, although the members of Pedro Sánchez’s Executive and the PSOE try to avoid speaking out on the controversy, those who do decide to speak show the existing discomfort in the party. His Secretary of Organization, Santos Cerdán, challenged Lobato to name names: “If he talks about lynchings, he should say who.”

Finally, Juan Lobato gives in to the pressures of the socialist environment and resigns as general secretary of the PSOE of Madrid after the ABC exclusive. The abandonment of the middle positions precipitates his final departure, with a very harsh letter in which he stands as free verse within a party dominated by the Sanchistas. “My way of doing politics is not the same and perhaps sometimes not compatible with that of the majority of the current leadership of my party,” he acknowledged in his resignation letter.