The Noelia Posse case is entrenched in Lobato in the PSOE-M: accused of embezzlement since 2021 and still without an expulsion date

Pablo R. Roces Madrid

Madrid

Updated Sunday, February 4, 2024-01:05

The procedural situation of the former mayor of Móstoles, Noelia Posse, has become entrenched in the PSOE of Madrid and its general secretary, Juan Lobato. Because although the Madrid Justice yesterday ordered the processing of the preliminary proceedings to continue, the opening of the oral trial has not yet taken place. And that is the limit that is set by the Socialist Executive to send the case to the Guarantees Commission and for it to execute their expulsion from the formation.

A case that the general secretary of the PSOE-M has been dragging on since his arrival in office, in October 2021, and that has not yet been resolved. "The decision has been made for a long time, we have very clear statutes and

the day we receive notification that an oral trial is opening, it will be suddenly transferred to the Guarantees Commission

to make the corresponding decisions," Lobato stated yesterday before that the Municipal Committee of the PSOE City of Madrid Group began.

«What I said two years ago, one year ago and three months ago is what is valid today. I'm not going to move from there," remarked the leader of the Madrid socialists. However, the situation of the former mayor of Móstoles is worrying within the party. "

It hurts us a lot

," highlights a PSOE-M official. "It has taken much longer than we were expecting and the longer it lasts, the worse it will be," summarizes a second.

In fact, those around Lobato expected that this opening would occur before the elections on May 28 so that Noelia Posse would not lead the municipal list of Móstoles.

Not only did she lead it, and lose the Mayor's Office in favor of the PP, but even today she is the spokesperson for the Socialist Municipal Group

in the town despite being investigated, along with eight former councilors of her Government, for a possible crime of administrative prevarication by the

ITV case

, accused of forgiving a debt to the concessionaire company of more than 2 million euros.

The current situation of Noelia Posse is not the first controversial case that the PSOE-M has faced with the former mayor of Móstoles. In 2019, as soon as she assumed the baton of command of the municipality, she was suspended from militancy by the training after seven alleged cases of nepotism became known, which included the hand-picked hiring of her sister as head of the Consistory's social networks. , with a salary of 52,000 euros, or the promotion of his uncle to technical director of Sports so that he would earn 1,607 euros more per month. The leader refused to resign and she was only suspended for nine months.