Are you sure he lobbied for Cardinal Martini? Since he is a protege of Pope Benedict, and likely to find favor, I would think he would have supported Cardinal Ratzinger.
Well, I couldn’t say personally, of course, but that’s what I read on a Spanish blog famous for the accuracy of its gossip! For what it’s worth...
I think he’s a protege only marginally; I have always thought of this as a sort of marriage of convenience, that is, he didn’t overtly oppose orthodoxy, unlike certain other bishops, but he was always a bit slippery. He was made a cardinal by JPII in 1998.
He seems to have gotten a little more overt in his opposition to BXVI lately, for some reason. He speaks English and has his own very professional looking website in English (maintained by somebody else, I imagine), and it looks to me for all the world like a campaign website.