The PSOE starts its federal congress calling Feijóo a “coup plotter” and attacking Ayuso in the middle of Lobato’s judicial statement

At 1:00 p.m., the Vice President of the Government and Deputy Secretary General, María Jesús Montero, the Secretary of Organization, Santos Cerdán, and the host, the leader of the Andalusian Socialists, Juan Espadas, appeared on the plenary stage. What in this type of congress is usually a pure showcase intervention on what is going to be discussed between the delegates arrived from all the provinces became an appearance marked, at that very moment, by the echoes that were already arriving from the statement before the TS of the resigned leader of the Madrid socialists, Juan Lobato, after the ABC exclusive that revealed that he had gone to a notary in Madrid to record the conversation in which a senior Moncloa official, Pilar Sánchez Acera, sent him the document from Ayuso’s boyfriend before it was published in ‘El Plural’. Montero was clearing the air about it and about the commission agent Víctor de Aldama’s accusations of collecting bribes.

Sánchez’s number two came to put “her hand on the fire” both for Cerdán, whose work she gave glowing praise for, and for his chief of staff, Carlos Moreno, whom Aldama accuses of having collected 25,000 euros in an envelope. But Montero also took the opportunity to launch a major accusation against the opposition leaderAlberto Núñez Feijóo, whom he did not hesitate to call a “coup plotter” and “authoritarian.” He argued this by explaining that the president of the PP “says that the PSOE must fire Pedro Sánchez”, who was “elected in the primaries” and is now seeking to renew his leadership for the fourth time in the Federal Congress.

Montero vindicated Sánchez by ensuring that he has “the affection, the warmth, the respect, the legitimacy of all the militancy of Spain“, and that it is suffering “an attack by right-wing and far-right organizations, instrumentalizing justice and provoking situations” based on “hoaxes, lies and misinformation in which no one provides a single piece of evidence to prove what they say.” .

Challenge to a motion

The number two of the Government and the PSOE also challenged Feijóo to propose a motion of censure in the Congress of Deputies. But he predicted that “he’s not going to do it because it is only hand in hand with the extreme right and has no alternative for the country.

Isabel Díaz Ayuso was also the target of criticism on the first day of the PSOE Federal Congress. Montero asked him to explain to the media that he “continues living in an attic” that He allegedly paid with the purchase of masks in the worst of the pandemic, which represented “a very important enrichment” for his partner and owner of the property, Alberto González Amador.

Aldama’s images

In the afternoon, a new detail of the scandals that plague the Government sneaked into the meeting of the socialists. Specifically, the images published by La Sexta of commission agent Víctor de Aldama inside the Ferraz headquarters on the electoral night of the penultimate general elections, on November 9, 2019. The Minister of Science and Universities, and leader of the PSOE in the Valencian Community, Diana Morant, tried to minimize them upon her arrival at the conclave, where she equated that circumstance five years ago with all the socialist delegates gathered in Seville, before returning to alluding to the photograph of Feijóo thirty years ago with the drug trafficker Marcial Dorado. The images revealed by the Atresmedia channel They show Aldama in an area of ​​the PSOE headquarters which is only possible to access with authorization from the party, and much more so on an occasion as unique as election nights. Another regional leader of the party also gave his opinion on them, Luis Tudanca, general secretary of Castilla y León, who said he had seen other photos of the commission agent of the Koldo plot with “leaders of the Popular Party at rallies and institutional events.”

With the leader of Aragón and former president of that autonomous community, Javier Lambán, absent, and awaiting the arrival of the other habitual rebel with Sánchez’s leadership, the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, the appearance of Tudanca meant that of the first leader who in recent months has expressed fundamental criticism of the party leadership, focused above all on the person in charge of Organization, Santos Cerdán. When asked by the press, Tudanca softened his tone, in a week where he has been one of the few to show solidarity and support with the resigned Juan Lobato. Asked if he expected a change of course in the device, he limited himself to pointing out that «Congresses are there for us to talk and debate. “It’s just that our party is like that,” he blazoned.

The Minister of Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, was one of the first protagonists of the day when she moderated a panel on the subject of her portfolio, just before the delivery of the Rosa Manzano award to former President Zapatero. Today several ministers will intervene in the moderation of presentations, such as the head of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, on peace, one from Montero about misinformation or another from the brand new third vice president and head of Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, on climate change.