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The Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, José Luis Ábalos, on Monday accused the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, of "calling for street demonstrations without any social distance" not with the aim of "claiming or to protest ", but with" a single purpose: to overthrow the Government ".

In an interview in 'TVE breakfasts', collected by Europa Press, the minister has urged the regional president to act as "a responsible ruler". "You have to be thinking about how to improve things and not how to make them worse," he said.

In this sense, Ábalos has pointed out that "insisting on opening primary care centers" to have a preventive system and "guaranteeing the necessary resources" in case there is a regrowth "is much more effective from the health point of view" than calling the people to demonstrate.

This Sunday, a crowd of people protested in different parts of the country against the management of the coronavirus by the central Executive and called for the resignation of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, with pans, posters and screams expressing discomfort with the political action against the health crisis.

In Madrid, the demonstration was distributed by several cities and towns in the Community. In this sense, about 200 people protested in front of the PSOE headquarters, on Ferraz street, shouting like 'Sánchez resigns' or 'Sánchez a prison' while they were on the move to safeguard the security distance.

"It is evident that this language and these manifestations respond to political language. Anyone in Spain who has no interest in a political option knows perfectly well what the situation is in Spain and Madrid, which became the epicenter of the pandemic," Sharp Abalos.

The head of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda has expressed himself this way after the Popular Party has accused the Executive of using political and non-technical criteria to deny the passage to phase 1 of Madrid, which is the only autonomous community that remains in its entirety in phase 0.

"If the situation in Madrid, with what it represented in number of infections, deaths, the pressure that existed on the hospital system has not been the same as that of the rest of Spain. No one would understand that the rest of Spain is also homologated to Madrid. political criterion could understand that: from a technical perspective, no, "he justified.

Along these lines, Ábalos recalled that the community chaired by Isabel Díaz Ayuso "has received a detailed report" in which the "effort and management" of the regional Executive is valued but, "nevertheless", establish indicators on which "it is possible" to keep "prudence".

The minister has put the Catalan capital, Barcelona, ​​as an example of a region that has not proposed any "problem". "He has been proposing to continue in the phase in which he is," he recalled, to later make clear that the intention of the Executive is for Madrid to pass the phase "as soon as possible." "But not to do it irresponsibly," he settled.

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