Óscar López, proclaimed general secretary of the PSOE of Madrid after the resignation of Juan Lobato without primary or election of any kind, is convinced that most of the Madrid are left and therefore the absolute majority of Isabel Díaz Ayuso … It does not correspond or far with the reality of the region. He attributes the ‘misunderstanding’ to a “trick” on the right: he is based on trimming rights and moving the people of politics, using hyperboles and making believe that everyone is equal, something that, in his opinion, discourages participation and pushes To many leftist voters to stay at home, especially in the areas where they would be a majority. It would be enough to deactivate that “trick” of Ayuso and mobilize to the left to end three decades of governments of the PP.
That theory is believed to the feet together and with it will reach the XV Congress of the PSOE of Madrid, which is held in Leganés this weekend, willing to prove it if it is already necessary to ‘draw it’ so that the ‘red’ areas are better seen With little participation, especially in the south of the region, which he considers conquered.
To achieve that goal that sees perfectly possible and attainable for the PSOE, despite being relegated to third position in Madrid from the 2021 elections, he is determined to form a wide team in this regional congress, as extensive as it is needed. It will have “anyone who wants to be,” according to sources close to the secretary general. López intends to have an executive of “unity and integration”, where they know “all” and there is “territorial balance”, according to the same sources. There will be no mayors, and neither do some of the people of their maximum confidence in recent years, including their stage in La Moncloa.
One of them is Pilar Sánchez Acera, his chief of cabinet when he was in turn Chief of Cabinet of Pedro Sánchez at the Moncloa Palace. In the surroundings of Óscar López confirm that Sánchez Acera will have a relevant position in the executive of the new Secretary General, although they did not want to specify what his concrete mission will be. “It will have an important role,” confirm the sources consulted, who say that “dozens and dozens of colleagues have claimed a dear and admired companion like her, and that Madrid knows as the palm of her hand.”
Pilar Sánchez Acera has been in the center of controversy in recent months, after revealing ABC how Lobato took the notary the conversation he had with her by WhatsApp, in which he asked him to use a letter with a letter with a letter with a letter with a letter with Confidential information of Ayuso’s boyfriend, to direct her against the regional president. The former Secretary General of the PSOE of Madrid, who had Sánchez Acera as an attached spokesman in the previous legislature, gave the judge the notarial act that proves the conversation he had with her about Alberto González Amador. As Lobato explained, he wanted to prove that from the Moncloa they made it clear that confidential information came from the media.
Lobato resigned as general secretary on November 28, but maintained the deputy minutes in the Assembly of Madrid and also that of Senator, which in his case depends directly on the first. Since that time, Óscar López has not had any contact with his predecessor at the head of the PSOE of Madrid. Sources close to Lobato corroborate that the new general secretary has not called him before the Congress of this weekend. “If I had called him to count on him in what was necessary, Lobato would have made available to help,” they say.
At this point, Lobato has no decided if he will go to the Leganés conclave. Sources of their environment point out that it has only received a generic invitation and regret the “contradiction” that supposes that Óscar López speaks of “unity and integration” and does not even call Lobato. These same sources point out that this lack of communication can obey the new secretary general wants “different profiles” for this stage, based on the permanent and direct clash with Ayuso, and other “constructive profiles” are not interested.
Double facet
Internal critical voices also regret that López will not devote himself to one hundred percent to be general secretary of the PSOE of Madrid to try to get to power in 2027, since he remains as a minister. In the environment of the Secretary General they completely rule out that he will resign his position in the government of Sánchez, among other reasons because that position gives him more relevance and notoriety at all levels. “It’s very good about being a minister.” They ensure that their two functions are “fully compatible”, as is for Ayuso, they say, be president of the community and president of the PP of Madrid. The lobatists reject that argument, because Ayuso’s “object” is the same, but nothing has to be a minister for digital transformation with being general secretary of the PSOE of Madrid. “In the end,” they regret, “practically does not speak of Madrid.”
Next week the parliamentary course resumes in the Assembly and Lobato will return to its seat, even if it has no specific function. In their environment they consider that in their situation an “institutional” work could be assigned within their parliamentary group. In the Senate it has more activity with a presence in five parliamentary commissions, including those of the Treasury, Economics and Budgets, which are its strengths. In December, in addition, his party entrusted him to deal with European funds in the upper house, which makes him sure that he will maintain his senator act, according to sources close to former Secretary General. They assure that Lobato “does not consider” that López will ask for the minutes of deputy or senator. And he has no intention of voluntarily abandoning.
The new party executive will have her first meeting on Monday, after the celebration of the Regional Congress. It will be there when the first decisions can be made in relation to the parliamentary group in the Assembly, including the continuity or not of the spokesman, Jesús Celada, who replaced Lobato in that position. Sources close to Óscar López did not rule out that Celada can continue, but in the assembly there are few who believe that it will continue as a spokesman.
Saturday, February 1
Initial interventions of ministers José Manuel Albares and Félix Bolaños, as well as Santos Cerdán, Anne Hidalgo and Oscar López himself. The star speech will be that of Salvador Illa.
Dialogue table with Zapatero
On Saturday afternoon, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Óscar López will maintain a dialogue about the ‘Valiente left’. “It is not silent, the one who answers what you have to answer to the right.”
Closing
On Sunday, starting at 12, it will be the act of Clausura, with two interventions: that of Óscar López, which will already have its new regional executive, and that of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
The new executive
The vote of the regional bodies will take place on Sunday morning, starting at nine. The Secretary General is not voted, because he was already proclaimed in December. In addition to the Executive, the delegates choose the members of the Federal Committee, the Regional List Commission and the Regional Ethics Commission.
The Congress of Leganés has prepared in detail, from the manager and also from Ferraz, to promote a leadership of López, but also to place Isabel Díaz Ayuso as the target of all attacks from the socialist ranks. On Saturday morning, two ministers, José Manuel Albares and Félix Bolaños, in addition to the Secretary General himself. The Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, and the president of the Genetholic of Catalonia, Salvador Illa will also be protagonists.
The presence of Illa has a special relevance for this PSOE of Madrid. “It represents the best policy, which consists of joining and serving, as he says,” they comment in López’s environment. «It is the perfect counterexample of Ayuso. Illa is understanding, good management, mood, quite the opposite of Ayuso ». The praise to Illa and the attacks on the regional president follow each other: «Salva is the good policy. Catalonia has overcome tension, but Madrid is today the focus of the Ultra strategy. We do not want Madrid to be the capital of the confrontation, the insult, the polarization, which is what Ayuso has made it, ”sources close to the Secretary General of Madrid socialists insist. They also recognize that with the presence of Illa there is a message of “collaboration” between Catalonia and Madrid. “The message that is saved in this congress is important and powerful.”
‘Valiente left’
Apart from the commissions and the debate of the 1,700 amendments that the local groups have presented to the presentations, in the Congress program there is a sectoral table, focused on housing, with the presence of the minister and the mayors of Fuenlabrada, Coslada and Gefate.
The main course of the day will arrive later, with a dialogue between Óscar López and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero on the ‘Valiente left’, which is the motto with which the Minister for Digital Transformation has landed at the head of the PSOE of Madrid. The ‘brave left’, according to López’s environment, is “the one that does not shut up, which answers what you have to answer to the right and the one that has a clear left -wing message.” Any comment from Ayuso that does not like them, even on social networks, will have their answer, which sometimes includes calling the president “meme”, criticizing her “sick” attitude or suggesting that her chief chief speaks under the effects of Alcohol, as Oscar López did.
López’s PSOE is aware that “Ayuso wants to raise a cultural battle,” and will not shun it, because he believes that Sánchez’s government “has shown that doing left policies Spain grows more than the rest.” “There is an ideological battle in which we are going to be.” The most powerful political act of Congress will arrive on Sunday, with the final speech of Oscar López, already with his executive revealed and voted, and with the closure of Pedro Sánchez.
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