• Direct. Last minute on the coronavirus

  • The Community.Madrid will restrict "mobility and activity" in the areas most affected by Covid and Aguado asks Sánchez to intervene

  • The central government. The government responds that it is fully "involved" and insists that it is up to Ayuso to "make decisions."

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has made public this afternoon the letter that the Chief Executive, Pedro Sánchez, has sent to the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in which he offers to go to his office in Puerta del Sol and address the situation in Madrid after the escalation of infections.

"In view of the evolution that the pandemic is following in the Community, I consider it essential to reinforce the co-governance mechanisms to complement the efforts and means that your government is already deploying," says the letter.

"So that we could address these issues in situ," the text continues, "I will be delighted to visit the offices of the regional presidency of the Community of Madrid."

"If that's okay with you, our teams can start working on a meeting as soon as possible," says Sánchez.

The invitation has not been long in being answered by Díaz Ayuso, who has assured in a tweet: "I am glad that the Prime Minister finally agrees to meet with me. The Community of Madrid has been alone too long."

The Madrid president recalled other previous tweets (from a week ago) in which she stated that she had requested a meeting with Sánchez because she considered "essential" the "coordination" of both administrations in the face of the pandemic.

The Chief Executive points out in his letter today that cooperation with the administrations is of "utmost importance" for the Government and to that end the

Presidents' Conferences

were held

during the months of the state of alarm and subsequently, and the

Ministry of Health

and others such as

Defense, Interior, Development, Economy

and

Finance

.

But he considers that now it is necessary to "jointly study how to reinforce these efforts and means that the Executive can contribute in order to overcome as soon as possible the critical moments that the region is going through."

Sánchez has also picked up the glove thrown by the vice president of the Community of Madrid, Ignacio Aguado, who in the morning appealed to the central executive to pitch in.

"It is necessary and urgent for the Government of Spain to get involved in controlling the pandemic in Madrid and so I have transferred it to the president, who has my full support," said Aguado, "who asked to" abandon the scuffles, leave drop the guns and offer joint solutions ».

From around the president they stressed that Aguado had not acted on his own, but had done "the same" that Ayuso had been doing since March.

In that sense, they recall the innumerable occasions on which, publicly, by letter or in the conferences of extraordinary presidents during the pandemic, Ayuso has requested a security plan for Barajas, legal instruments so that the autonomous communities can take restrictive measures or a table coordination.

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