Isabel Díaz Ayuso once again takes a pulse against the “impositions” of Moncloa to the hotel industry and nightlife to fight against the Covid. The Madrid president assures that these sectors cannot pay for “the inefficiency” of Sánchez and Madrid will not implement the measures approved in the Interterritorial Health Council. full to the hotel and nightlife. Among the impositions that the Government wants to implement is the obligation that bars and restaurants close at 1 in the morning and prohibit smoking in outdoor spaces when two meters away are not kept until 70% of the population and all those over 50 years of age are fully immunized. Madrid has refused to implement these measures – the Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia, Andalusia and Murcia have also been dissatisfied – as it considers them to be “inappropriate.” From the Madrid Ministry of Health, led by Enrique Ruiz Escudero, they argue that “the current epidemiological situation and the advance in vaccination” are sufficient reasons not to adopt such severe measures. Hospital pressure in the Community of Madrid has drastically reduced in recent weeks, the cumulative incidence at 14 days stands at 165.47 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and almost 18.4% of Madrid residents are immunized. Díaz Ayuso said this Wednesday that the hospitality industry “cannot pay for the inefficiency” of Pedro Sánchez. In a message that he has spread on his social networks, Ayuso explains: «Hospitality establishments are safe places and allies to overcome this crisis.They cannot pay for the ineffectiveness of the Sánchez government ”and has insisted that Madrid will continue to apply regional regulations. Hospitality establishments are safe places and allies to overcome this crisis. They cannot pay for the ineffectiveness of the Sánchez government. That is why @ComunidadMadrid will continue to apply the regional regulations. – Isabel Díaz Ayuso (@IdiazAyuso) June 2, 2021 No to the Covid traffic light The document, which has been approved with the vote in favor of the rest of the communities and the abstention of Castilla y León and the autonomous city of Melilla, includes a so-called Covid traffic light that regulates restrictions based on the epidemiological situation of each region. Thus, if Madrid were to apply these measures – which it has already denied that it will do – it would be forced to close the interior of bars and restaurants and reduce the number of diners in terraces to six people, after expanding it to eight last Monday, because the region is at alert level 3. In addition, the community would be forced to postpone the opening of nightlife spaces amid the conversations it is having with the sector to be able to reactivate these premises as soon as possible.Pulse to Moncloa Thus, Madrid once again gives a pulse to the Government of Pedro Sánchez in the management of the pandemic. It must be remembered that Isabel Díaz Ayuso has tried at all times, since the state of alarm declined after the first wave, to manage the community that she presides, seeking a balance between the fight against the virus – saving lives – and avoiding the collapse of the Madrid’s economy, especially that of the hospitality industry. This strategy has paid off and Madrid has become the engine of Spain in the midst of the crisis and has kept the fight on the front line against the virus.Ayuso also has the endorsement of having obtained the confidence of the majority of Madrid residents after the May 4 elections, turning the so-called ‘Ayuso phenomenon’ into a political tsunami that has overturned politics in the country. Ayuso’s victory has been a blow to the policies of Pedro Sánchez and his social-communist government, even causing the exit through the back door of Pablo Iglesias’ policy, of which almost no one remembers.
