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The government of Pedro Sánchez In Madrid, he has found the perfect target to attack the Popular Party and share responsibility for the tragedy of the coronavirus. The day the parliamentary group of Pablo Casado voting for the first time against extending the state of alarm, members of the PSOE and Unidas Podemos blamed the conservative government of the Community of Madrid for Spain being one of the countries most affected by Covid-19 worldwide.
“Without Madrid” in the global calculation, “Spain would go from being the seventh country with the highest number of infections per hundred thousand inhabitants to the twelfth.” Pablo Echenique, spokesman for Unidas Podemos, opened the ban in the Congress of Deputies to attack without hesitation the management of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who has denounced the Sánchez government before the Supreme Court for not allowing the phase change of the community. “If we don’t include Madrid, Spain goes from being the fourth country to the sixth with more deaths per hundred thousand inhabitants, “Echenique continued.”If we remove Madrid from the computation, the epidemiological data of Spain improve a lot “, he concluded.
During the debate on the extension of the state of alarm, the purple spokesman insinuated that Casado would be guilty of a “safe regrowth” because the vote against the PP is, in his opinion, “against total lack of confidence” and “due to massive contagion”. Echenique stressed the words of the PP president himself, who went on to say that if he were Prime Minister he would have acted the same as the President of the Community of Madrid, who decreed the closure of schools before the Government. And he ended up defining it as “our Trump punishes”.
Echenique left the ball voting for him to catch it Adriana Lastra on the rostrum. The socialist spokesperson increased criticism of the management of the Community of Madrid, which has been accusing the Sánchez government of “punishing” it for two weeks, remaining in Phase 0 for a “political” issue. Lastra accused Isabel Díaz Ayuso of endangering everyone’s life by encourage “irresponsibly” street protests “without keeping social distance”. In the last control session in the Madrid Assembly, Ayuso replied to Podemos that when citizens can go out into the streets and demonstrate “what Núñez de Balboa is going to look like is a joke.”
Immediately afterwards, Lastra looked at Casado and asked him if the PP “will be responsible for the outbreak of the virus in the Community of Madrid because of the protests in the streets. “The conservative deputy José Ignacio Echániz At that moment he shouted to the socialist a “you are going to find out” that the socialist understood as a threat. The parliamentarian later added that he was referring to “you are going to find out about the support of Madrid residents for Ayuso”, in an allusion to the polls that predict a support from the citizens to the president of Madrid.
Bad management
The socialist also brought to the speakers’ gallery a news item from a French newspaper that defined the president of Madrid as “a troublesome element that has lost control of what it says, with a surreal behavior. He can hardly boast of management when almost a third of the cases in Madrid accumulate in Spain. “It was his way of replying that the mismanagement of the PP has also reached the international arena, as Casado ugged him in previous interventions with Sánchez.
The president of the Government avoided direct attack on Madrid, although in his long speech he recognized that the debate had been and continued to be very deep with some autonomies. Without actually mentioning it, everyone understood that it was referring to the Community of Madrid.
“Portrayed”
The national leadership of the PP considers that the PSOE and Unidas Podemos “have been portrayed” and that their “sole objective” is “to attack the Community of Madrid.” While the pressure is increasing towards Madrid, from Genoa they emphasize that “Sánchez still does not answer Ayuso’s questions“, who requested” transparency, clear criteria and loyalty. “For his part, Pedro Sánchez placed himself behind the” experts “and the” health professionals “to defend that Health has opted to keep the Community of Madrid in Phase 0. “It is the professionals who are saying that they are not ready to go to Phase 1.”
Ayuso’s cabinet only sees “political” reasons in that decision that makes Madrid lose 150 million euros a week and has not stood idly by. This Wednesday, he followed through on his threat to take the central government to court because, they say, “there is no report that motivates the rejection of the request to go to Phase 1.” The Community of Madrid will submit the complaint to the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court because have “reasonable doubts” about the indicators are being applied in a homogeneous way for all the autonomous communities.
Tension between the two administrations has escalated to all-time highs hours before the faces met. This Thursday, Health and Madrid will hold a bilateral meeting to analyze the latest technical report presented by the Ayuso team in which they request to go up in phase again. In that meeting, the team of Salvador Illa It will advance whether or not the region is in a position to go up to Phase 1 starting Monday. At the Real Casa de Correos, headquarters of the Madrid Executive, they wait for the final resolution with their fingers crossed. “We hope that this time we can pass “.
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