Juan Lobato Gandarias (born 5 November 1984) is a

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( es, Partido Socialista Obrero Español ; PSOE ) is a social-democraticThe PSOE is described as a social-democratic party by numerous sources: * * * * political party in Spain. The PSOE has been in gov ...

(PSOE) politician. First elected as a councillor in

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in 2003, he was the town's mayor from 2015 to 2021. He served in the

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from 2015 to 2019 and again from 2021, becoming his party's leader in the region.

Biography

Born in

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, Lobato graduated in Business Management and Administration, and Law, from the

Autonomous University of Madrid The Autonomous University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; UAM), commonly known as simply la Autónoma, is a Spanish public university located in Madrid, Spain. The university was founded in 1968 alongside the Autonomous Universi ...

. He was the mayor of

from 2015 to 2021, having first been elected to the city council in 2003 when he was 18, and a deputy in the

from 2015 to 2019. From 2010, he worked as a State Treasury Technician for the State Tax Administration Agency. In 2017, he was a candidate for secretary general of the

(PSOE) in the

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. He came second, with 19.74% of the vote, behind

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. Lobato was put in fourth place on the PSOE's list for the

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, led by

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. He resigned as mayor of Soto del Real in April, before being re-elected to the Assembly in May. He and

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were made the party's assistant spokespeople, behind

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. In September 2021, Lobato put himself forward again as a candidate for secretary general. He was elected in October, with 61.23% of the votes, ahead of the mayor of

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, Francisco Javier Ayala. Also becoming spokesman of the party in the Assembly of Madrid, he offered to pact with regional president

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( PP) so that the budget could be passed without compromises towards Vox.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lobato, Juan 1984 births Living people Politicians from Madrid Autonomous University of Madrid alumni Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians Mayors of places in the Community of Madrid Members of the 10th Assembly of Madrid Members of the 12th Assembly of Madrid Members of the Socialist Parliamentary Group (Assembly of Madrid)