The former general secretary of the PSOE-M, Juan Lobato, He has not yet formalized the delivery of his minutes as a deputy of the Madrid Assembly. This has been confirmed to this newspaper by sources from the Madrid parliament, who have explained that at 2:00 p.m. this Thursday, when the registry makes the first balance of the day with the communications received since 8:00 p.m. the previous day, there was no record of the resignation of the leader of the Madrid socialists since the end of 2021.
Cub He presented his resignation as Secretary General this Wednesday minutes after 2:00 p.m., so 24 hours have already passed since the publication of that decision without the delivery of the regional parliamentarian credential that he has held since the May 2023 elections. The truth is that in the statement in which he moved his step aside did not make any reference to this point.
It also happens that the record of the deputy in the Madrid Chamber grants him the status of senator by autonomous designation, a seat to which he accessed in July 2023 with the approval of his party and with the double objective of gaining focus in the national political arena and strengthening its political figure in the Community of Madrid, against Isabel Diaz Ayuso and facing the electoral cycle that will begin in 2027.
The delivery of either of these two minutes is a decision that exclusively corresponds to Lobatowithout his parliamentary group, now divided between those who are related to him and the critics who have aligned themselves with Ferraz, who has already appointed a management commission to take control of the PSOE-M until the formation of the next leadership, being able to withdraw them. This is established not only by the Assembly Regulations, but also by the Constitution itself.
What the socialist group can do, if Lobato decides to remain as a deputy in the Chamber of Vallecas, is reorganize and remove him from the spokesperson which he has been exercising in the last three years. These are internal movements that would occur in the next few hours, given that next week is a working week in parliament and on Thursday there is an appointment of great parliamentary importance: the debate of the amendments to all the opposition groups to the project. of the Government Budget Law for the year 2025.
Until the events of the last few hours, Lobato was designated to defend the PSOE amendment before the plenary sessionbut given the current situation this is a possibility that has been completely banished. The socialist group has to find a replacement for him, and that plenary session on Thursday is not the only milestone on next week’s parliamentary agenda, since on Monday there is a meeting of the Board of Spokespersons, which Lobato used to attend, and the group should meet to organize the interventions of its deputies in the commissions and other initiatives.