ABC contacted Juan Lobato this Sunday morning, October 24, to warn him that the newspaper was going to publish important information that affects him. The leader of the Madrid socialists summoned Javier Chicote, head of ABC Research and author of the information, and Juan Fernández-Miranda, deputy to the director and who contacted Lobato, in the cafeteria of the Círculo de Bellas Artes, in Madrid, to 4 p.m. “I just sat down in the cafeteria inside,” he wrote at 3:44 p.m. They occupied a high table to the right of the entrance, in the space before the stairs that go up to the Circle room. After the greeting and a brief polite conversation, Fernández-Miranda tells him: “Javi has to tell you something.” “I took him (to the notary’s office) when the issue of the Supreme Court (the accusation of Álvaro García Ortiz) came up, which Be here, in case one day emails and WhatsApp start to appear» Juan Lobato «I know the call and WhatsApp messages that were sent to you on March 14 first thing in the morning – Javier starts Chicote-, what they asked you to do and you didn’t do, and that you have left a record of all of it. This is going to affect you…” Lobato listens attentively and cannot hide a gesture of deep concern. He says some first words: “They are going to think that I passed it on to you, as if it were my operation, that I designed it.” Lobato continues to acknowledge the facts without making a single objection: “I took it (to the notary’s office) when the issue of the Supreme Court (the accusation of Álvaro García Ortiz) came up, this is here, in case one day emails and WhatsApps start to appear ». He did emphasize that he went to the notary’s office “before the Oscar thing came out.” He was referring to recent information about the possibility that Óscar López – current Minister for Digital Transformation and Pedro Sánchez’s Cabinet Director at the time of the events, on October 14 – will replace him at the head of the Madrid socialists. «It’s going to explode on you» «To heal you. “They have the problem,” Juan Fernández-Miranda intervened, and Lobato nodded. “It’s going to explode on you, that’s why we warned you,” he added. At that moment, Lobato asks for the “exact” information that is going to be obtained. Chicote tells him the story of the events, how on the night of March 13 several media published that it was false that the Prosecutor’s Office had offered an agreement to the couple. by Isabel Díaz Ayuso and that, specifically, the SER chain cited quotes from the email with the confession, but without showing the document in any case. «They contact you first thing in the morning (from Moncloa), they send you the document so you can get it and you say that you are not going to get it. Then they tell you that they are going to leak it to ‘El Plural’ and some other media. The content was known, but not the document. Lobato intervenes: “Of course, who would have given me the document…” “Moncloa managed it…” adds Javier Chicote, who asks him a key and direct question: “If something I’m saying is not correct, tell me.” Juan Lobato responds: “That’s what it was, come on…” he says while nodding and confirming all the details of the information. The journalists ask him if he wants to make statements to publish them, if he is going to recognize it or deny it: “I’m not going to say ‘That’s a lie,'” he answers. At no point during the meeting, which lasts from 4:00 p.m. to almost 4:30 p.m. this Sunday, the leader of the Madrid socialists denies anything that ABC is going to publish. The PSOE spokesperson in the Madrid Assembly also asks if they are going to say that he went to the notary to formalize the messages or would they only talk of his conversation with Pilar Sánchez Acera. They inform him that they are going to publish all the events, as they occurred and have been confirmed by the protagonist himself, including his visit to the notary. Lobato then appears even more worried. At no point during the meeting, which lasts from 4:00 p.m. to almost 4:30 p.m., does the leader of the Madrid socialists deny anything: does he confirm it and worry about the political consequences for his regional congress, which It will be after the federal this weekend in Seville. He explains that in the face of militancy they are going to paint him as a traitor and they are going to appoint an alternative candidate. Next, you are offered to send your version to be included in the information. The politician says goodbye and the journalists wait for his response. At 8:13 p.m., Lobato writes to Fernández-Miranda: “I’ll send you the answer.” This comes a minute later: «I went to the notary when the judicial process was opened regarding the emails of Ms. Ayuso’s boyfriend. I wanted to record that according to the evidence that I have, it is proven, in relation to the procedure of the Attorney General’s Office, that neither I nor Pilar Sánchez Acera receive any information from the Prosecutor’s Office, but that this information is already The media had it. In times of hoaxes it is useful to prove the reality of the facts. In any case, I will carry out the appropriate actions before the notary’s office. It is an adulterated version and in a very different tone from the facts that he himself had acknowledged to journalists just four hours before and that today he tries to amplify through his interventions in different media that have contacted him.
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