The general secretary of the Madrid PSOE, Juan Lobatohas been involved in the controversy surrounding the case of the leaks of emails exchanged between the Prosecutor’s Office and Alberto González Amador’s lawyerpartner of the Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
According to information published by ABC, the Óscar López’s chief of staff (then chief of staff of Pedro Sánchez and currently minister), Pilar Sánchez Acera would have leaked that information to Juan Lobato with the intention that the spokesperson would use those leaks in the plenary session of the Madrid Assembly.
Cubnow cited as a witness in the Supreme Court case against the state attorney general for those leaks, certified before a notaryas revealed ABC and he himself later corroborated the WhatsApp conversation with Moncloa’s advisor and the leaked information.
Lobato went to the notary without notifying anyone to leave a record of the conversations
Lobato himself assured in a post on the social network Bluesky who certified before a notary that the information relating to Díaz Ayuso’s partner came from the mediaand to record that “neither the Madrid socialists nor Moncloa had received from the Prosecutor’s Office any information at all related” to that case.
Lobato recognized ABC the communications between him and Sánchez Acera and that, when the case was opened in the Supreme Court that ended with the accusation of the Attorney General of the State, he went to the notary without anyone knowing to leave a record that “neither I nor Pilar Sánchez Acera received any information from the Prosecutor’s Officebut that the media already had that information.” In addition, the socialist spokesperson assured this Monday that he did it because It was “very clear” that he would be summoned to testify in the Supreme Court process.
The WhatsApp conversations presented by Lobato before a notary date back to March 14, 2024 and would consist of documents sent by Sánchez Acera which, according to the leader of the Madrid PSOE himself, had already been published by the media, in addition to “press clippings” or links. Lobato has refused to make public the notarial record of the conversation stating that “it is a private conversation, and its purpose is not to publish it.”
This Tuesday’s appearance
Lobato, in his appearance this Tuesday, assured that “he does not contemplate” that Sánchez Acera, lied to him about the origin of the email from González Amador’s defense and the public ministry, Monica Tragacete reports. “I do not consider that what I was told was false, because if it were false that the origin of that documentation was the media, it would be quite serious,” he stated. An origin outside the press would mean that the Prosecutor’s Office would have sent the documentation to Moncloa, which would complicate Ortiz’s judicial future, something that would also have had consequences for Lobato, as he himself has stated.
Cub He did not plan to make any public statement on the notary matter until he testified in the Supreme Court, according to his team, but just a few hours after that alleged informative lock – a decision that was made after an intense round of interviews – he has come out to once again defend his decision to go to the notary and that As he confessed this Monday, he did not consult with anyone