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Updated Monday, February 26, 2024-13:43

  • PSOE-M Santos Cerdán's maneuver against Lobato deepens the rupture: "The saber game has begun"

  • Politics Ferraz and the PSOE-M maneuver against Lobato: Santos Cerdán called him up for the amnesty and met secretly with two critics

The maneuver of Santos Cerdán in the PSOE of Madrid, meeting with the mayors of Fuenlabrada and Getafe, has already opened the hidden hostilities in the party led by Juan Lobato.

And this Monday it was the general secretary who explained his position, showing himself "very favorable" to criticism from both the militants and other leaders of the party as long as it

is "public" or "in the party organs." .

"

For now I haven't heard them, I read a lot of things, but it's all very secret and without giving names

. If nothing happens, man, they can do it with their faces and with honesty," stressed the general secretary of the PSOE. M in the round after the Board of Spokespersons in the Madrid Assembly, where he recalled that in the last regional federal committee "100%" of those present "voted in favor of the 2023 management."

"And that is the latest in addition to the 1,000 militants with whom I have spoken in the last month and who have conveyed their support to me," reaffirmed the leader of the Madrid socialists who this afternoon will attend the Salamanca and Retiro groups on his tour. for all those who make up the party in the capital.

A round that is taking place at the same time as the movements within his party.

While Lobato tries to shore up his internal support among the militancy, on February 12, as EL MUNDO revealed, the Secretary of Organization,

Santos Cerdán

, had a secret lunch with the mayors of Getafe and Fuenlabrada,

Sara Hernández

and

Javier Ayala

, in which criticism was made of Lobato's management at the head of the formation and a change in its head was even proposed.

"

I am very favorable to the fact that there are people who can think differently and that there is criticism in the game in Madrid

, towards my figure and towards the way in which I approach things, in the way in which the strategy can go to one side or towards another. I think it is very positive, for me the first, because it teaches me to grow and mature, but also for the party," Lobato assured this Monday from the Madrid Assembly, who insisted that the PSOE-M "does not It is a sleeping party" but it is one "with people who are hungry, excited and eager."

"And if there is hunger, it will also have to be demanding," he pointed out.

"In Madrid we need that, a live party, where we can have a journey, where we can build a project

, where people give their opinion during its construction. Very favorable to that, that it be done in the party organs and also in public," he said. concluded the general secretary of the PSOE-M, implying that the party's critics must step forward if they decide to confront his management in the party.

It is worth remembering that the leader of the Madrid socialists has opted since his arrival to office, in October 2021, to build his "own profile" and provide that autonomy to the party in the capital, showing a position far removed from Ferraz on issues such as taxation, whose proposal has the lowest personal income tax rate of all the national PSOE groups.

Also with the amnesty, despite defending that Pedro Sánchez has "the legitimacy" to negotiate it, it has been suggested that he has "positive and negative things."

In fact, this intervention, recognizing that there were "doubts" among the militancy in the Community of Madrid in an interview with Carlos Alsina on January 18, led Ferraz to call up the general secretary of the PSOE-M.

Specifically, as this newspaper reported, Santos Cerdán called Lobato that same day to "refine concepts" about the measure of grace for the Catalan independentists, in short, according to party sources

"a softened way" of reprimanding the leader in the capital.