General Secretary of the PSOE-M, spokesman for the socialist parliamentary group in the Madrid Assembly... and from now on a senator by autonomous designation. Juan Lobato accumulated a new position yesterday in a movement that the Madrid leader justifies in the need to "go all out" and make visible the PSOE project in a "very complicated" region with the political cyclone of Ayuso at the head of the strongest PP of Spain in the face of the dissenting voices that emerged in Ferraz.
Having digested the first internal criticisms, Lobato argues that this strategy was not invented by the PSOE in Madrid, but is done throughout Spain, and added that he sees the Upper House as "a space to present the political project" for Madrid that he wants in the future and has ruled out having political aspirations at the national level by settling that he wants to be "president of the Community of Madrid".
"This is serious (...) and the PSOE in Madrid is not here "to let the years go by, to go on a scooter or to waste time". "Going all out means putting all the possible platforms", he added.
And he has even given an example to figures such as the president of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno, who opted for the same strategy when he was in the opposition in search of "projection", and his counterpart in Castilla-La Mancha, the socialist Emiliano García-Page. . "That is the model. Open all the windows to achieve the Presidency", he has summarized.
Socialist criticism of Lobato's movement is circumscribed on two levels. The first of organic operation, since the PSOE statute recommends avoiding the accumulation of organic and institutional positions.
And the second of political alignment, given that, in addition to the aforementioned Page, Lobato will coincide in the Lower House with another prominent socialist leader such as the Aragonese Javier Lambán. Both openly critical of the management of Ferraz's helm decreed by the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and contrary to the application of the party's argumentation in tax matters or pardons for politicians imprisoned by the process.
Together with Lobato, the historic activist for the rights of LGTBI people Carla Antonelli (Más Madrid) and five popular deputies such as its secretary general, Alfonso Serrano, who was the Minister of Health during the last legislature, will travel from the Madrid Assembly to the Senate. , Enrique Ruiz Escudero; the former Vice Minister of Justice and Victims, Yolanda Ibarrola; the president of the Miguel Ángel Blanco Foundation, Marimar Blanco, and the autonomous parliamentarian Miriam Bravo.
