The PP uses Lobato to overshadow the statement as investigated by Ayuso’s partner

This Friday, at ten in the morning, Alberto González Amador, partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, testifies in the Court of Instruction 19 of Madrid. He does it for the two alleged tax crimes and one of document falsification that he is accused of and that he acknowledged on February 2 with the intention of reaching an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office to avoid jail. A statement that has been postponed up to three times, at the request of his defense, and that will end up taking place on the same day and at the same time as that of the former general secretary of the PSOE of Madrid and until two days ago leader of the opposition, Juan Lobato .

Lobato will testify in the Supreme Court before the magistrate of the Criminal Chamber Angel Hurtadoinstructor of the case opened to the State Attorney General and the provincial chief prosecutor of Madrid. He does so as a witness to give explanations about how the email that Ayuso’s partner’s lawyer sent to the Prosecutor’s Office to reach an agreement reached him and whose leak is being investigated in the High Court.

Although these are two different causes, the second cannot be understood without the first and the Popular Party is only interested in that, especially with regard to Alvaro Garcia Ortiz. But Lobato’s maneuver
—revealed by the newspaper ABC five days before González Amador sat before the judge—to deposit the conversations of WhatsApp with a colleague from the PSOE in which he sent her the email document with González Amador’s confession and his desire to reach an agreement, has caused a political earthquake in the PSOE of Madrid that reaches the Government and, therefore, has the popular rubbing hands.

The hoax that the PP does not want to talk about

The political and media noise of the last five days has helped Alberto Núñez Feijóo to catch his breath after some difficult weeks due to the management of DANA in Valencia and Ayuso to overshadow his Ayuso’s time in court. Everyone wins, although Génova has never hidden its discomfort at the information about González Amador.

But “He is a private citizen and the important thing is the attorney general”say sources from the national leadership, who insist on the relevance of the UCO report that points out the “preeminent” role of García Ortiz in the events that led to the leak. However, they do not want to talk about the other extreme that is clarified in the same Civil Guard report: Ayuso’s entourage released false information published by some media outlets that it was the Prosecutor’s Office that offered the agreement to the couple. the president of the Community of Madrid. It was a hoax. The PP does not want to talk about it, but it reaps its fruits.

In defense of Lobato

Borja Sempernational spokesperson for the conservative party, assured this Thursday that it is possible that a crime has been committed in which “the Moncloa, the State Attorney General, the former Chief of Staff of the President of the Government, his Chief of Staff and the general secretary of the PSOE in Madrid”. “Scandals and political circumstances have become natural. Lobato resigns but not the state attorney general, nor Sánchez, nor the ministers involved,” added Sémper. He did not talk about the tax crimes of Ayuso’s partner, who acted as a commission agent during the pandemic and profited from the sale of masks.

Feijóo also spoke from A Coruña, where he participated this Thursday in the congress of the Spanish Confederation of Directors and Executives. The president of the PP spoke about possible “illegal leaks from the State Attorney General to Moncloa and from Moncloa to Lobato”.

Furthermore, in the PP they also defend Lobato to use his resignation against Pedro Sánchez. “I respect him politically and personally”assures Sémper. “Lobato has had a gesture of dignity”said the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez Almeida, this Wednesday. The popular They thus use Lobato to incite the Government, to which the socialists respond by rescuing what happened in the defenestration of Pablo Casado as president of the PP that served as a red carpet for Feijóo.