Isabel Díaz Ayuso starts the Covid aid: 25 million for taxi drivers, hairdressers, hoteliers and merchants | Last minute Madrid

The acting president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, announced this Tuesday that her Government has begun this week to distribute direct aid due to the Covid-19 crisis to self-employed workers and small merchants. the closing of the annual Assembly of the Spanish Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs, Madrid is the first autonomous community in Spain that is executing “this necessary program” and has already distributed a total of 25.6 million euros to 8,556 companies in Madrid. that have benefited the most from this first batch of aid have been the taxi, adding 83.24% of the aid (7,122), followed by the hotel industry, with 4.58% (392); small businesses, with 2.48% (212); and hairdressers and beauty and aesthetic centers, with 1.59%. (136) These grants include part of the 679 million line financed by the central government and part of the 220 million with own funds contributed by the Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso to compensate the affected sectors had been left out of Pedro Sánchez’s aid.The Madrid president has indicated that since the pandemic began, the Community of Madrid has approved 1,100 million euros in direct aid, of which it has already been implemented more than 180. “But, above all, we are the ones who most want to let you work,” he recalled. In this case, a total of 8,556 Madrid companies are already receiving funds, the average amount of which is 3,000 euros. Companies can request the aid until June 30. To date, the Madrid government has already received about 29,000 applications.Criticisms of Sánchez On the other hand, Ayuso recalled that today 3 years ago Pedro Sánchez became President of the Government “through the back door” and “the bill is considerable.” “650,000 more unemployed, 235,319 million more public debt, 50,000 fewer companies and 40% more youth unemployment “, is the balance made by the president, who added that” to pay the bill of its pro-independence partners, a bill that we all pay, the toll is immense “” How much money and How much work is sanchismo going to cost us in Moncloa to continue perpetuating itself at the expense of these partners? When we went from 1936 to 2050 with astonishing ease, “he added. In addition, he criticized that” the Government of Spain and many other political leaders talk happily about fiscal harmonization when it comes to raising taxes, but they are silent when it is to lower them. They know how easy it is to destroy, but not how complicated it is to build.