Ayuso justifies his energy rebellion by the

Isabel Díaz Ayuso has attacked this holiday Monday against Pedro Sánchez and his "energy censorship policy".

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
15 August 2022 Monday 05:32
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Ayuso justifies his energy rebellion by the

Isabel Díaz Ayuso has attacked this holiday Monday against Pedro Sánchez and his "energy censorship policy". The regional president, confronted with the leader of the Executive since the announcement of the first savings measures, has reiterated that Madrid is not going to be turned off by decree, "but because the President of the Government imposes it in an authoritarian manner and without consensus"

Ayuso expressed himself in this way after the award ceremony for the Bronze Pigeons-Firefighters of Madrid where he recognized "not understanding how in the middle of the summer tourist campaign decisions can be made by decree that affect so many private premises, they are always is changing the rules of the game for them".

The Madrid president has been singled out from the PSOE for opposing the same efficiency plan demanded in July by the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and which the European Union is already advising to put into practice. "We socialists are with solidarity and with Europe," Hana Jalloul, the socialist export spokesperson in the Madrid Assembly, made ugly last week.

Since then, both Ayuso and his close team have been qualifying their position and today the regional president has pointed out that "far from the recommendations that the EU has requested for energy saving, the Government of Spain has undertaken a policy of censorship This decree portrays the government as authoritarian, arbitrary and sloppy," he insisted.

"There is no need to impose in this way, so that everyone knows, what has to be done in difficult times. We appeal to consensus and dialogue and that is what has not happened here." "Madrid is not going to be turned off by decree," he insisted to lament the "folly" that implies being "the capital of Europe that previously turns off its shop windows, at the hands of a decree that directly attacks the freedom of business hours of the Community of Madrid, especially affecting tourism, and especially trade".

For all these reasons, Ayuso has endorsed his decision to appeal to the Constitutional Court "with all the tools provided by the rule of law to demonstrate that he has not acted correctly and in accordance with the law."

In this regard, the Minister of Education and spokesperson for the PSOE, Pilar Alegría, has referred, after Ayuso's attitude has been equated with that of the central government regarding the ruling that obliges Catalonia to teach 25% of education in Spanish and that The Generalitat has avoided complying with Moncloa's inaction.

They are "very different" positions, Alegría insisted in an interview with Europa Press. Thus, he explains that the Government has manifested itself from the first moment with the "same position" on the 25% sentence in the sense of being respectful of it. But he specifies that the one who has to ensure that these are fulfilled are the courts.

In this sense, remember that it has been the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) who has transferred to the Constitutional Court the consultation on the new decree made by the Generalitat after the sentence. But he wants to make it clear that the State Attorney has also supported making this consultation before the Constitutional Court.

For this reason, he believes that the position of the Government in relation to Catalonia due to the 25% sentence is very different than the "revolt" of the Community of Madrid with an "endless" number of issues. "It is not the same to talk about an issue where there is a sentence, where there is a court that clearly proposes the fulfillment of a sentence as the position of revolt that sometimes some CCAA on repeated occasions, such as the Community of Madrid, usually pose" , has specified.