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The Community of Madrid came out this Friday in a rush to criticize the decision of the central Executive to prohibit the passage of the region to Phase 1 of the de-escalation plan. "We are facing a political attack that is part of the unacceptable campaign that is being carried out on my government," said the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, after learning of this second consecutive rejection.

The Ministry of Health publicly appreciated the "excellent work" and the "significant effort" that the region has made to alleviate its main weak point: the coronavirus detection system. However, it appealed to its "unique characteristics with very high mobility of people and with massive public transport" to prohibit the start of the deconfinition process, although it will allow it to apply some "flexibility measures".

Faced with "the lack of technical explanations", Ayuso announced this Friday that he is going to request "formally and in writing a reasoned report" on the determination not to allow Madrid to start de-escalation for the second consecutive week. In the case of not receiving it or verifying that there has been "deliberate harm", the regional president stated that she will adopt "all legal measures" within her reach to "defend the rights of citizens" in the region.

“It is clear that this decision has been made beyond the doors of the Ministry of Health . The same people who denied the severity of the epidemic on 8-M now deny the phase change to Madrid without technical criteria, "added the regional leader about a resolution that she describes as" arbitrary. "

In the regional executive they defend that they meet "all the required criteria" . Among other issues, they argue that 11,000 PCRs are already being carried out to identify patients with Covid-19 and that they are in a position to reach 15,000, in addition to having "elasticity plans" to increase the number of hospital beds in the in the event of a regrowth.

"The decision of the Government of Spain has not been technical, but political" , said, for his part, the Madrid vice president, Ignacio Aguado. “They have not presented a single argument that justifies that we cannot pass the phase. We complied and they opposed it. They are condemning thousands of Madrid residents to ruin and destroying the economic engine of Spain, "he added.

"Abuse of power"

Even more forceful was the Minister of the Treasury, Javier Fernández Lasquetty, who accused the Executive of Pedro Sánchez of "abuse of power to deliberately punish Madrid." In his opinion, the sanitary criteria "have weighed nothing" in the discard for the passage to Phase 1 because "the best proof is that they have been changed." "We are in a state of alarm that the Government cannot take advantage of for its political interests or for its political hobbies against the Community of Madrid and against the people of Madrid, among other things, because every week it is sending 18,000 people from Madrid to unemployment , " said Lasquetty. in Onda Cero.

For his part, the Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, announced that the region will re-apply to go to Phase 1 next week, although in another interview on esRadio he did not hide his frustration: «I honestly don't know what else there is to do » .

Finally, the head of Justice and Interior, Enrique Lopez, defended that Madrid has a ratio of new cases "lower than other communities that have entered Phase 1". “We were alerted to make an effort in Primary Care and in the detection of new cases, we have made a considerable effort and what is being pretended now is that it takes a few days to assess whether this is effective . We believe so. "

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