Military ensuring that the restrictions in Madrid are complied with and health workers of the Armed Forces carrying out antigen tests to almost one million Madrid residents.

This is the scenario in which the president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso thinks, and that today he will transfer to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in their midday meeting at Puerta del Sol, headquarters of the Madrid Executive.

The Government of Madrid has encountered two major problems when it comes to containing the spread of the virus in recent weeks: the difficulty for the positives and their contacts to comply with quarantines -almost 1,500 people have skipped them in recent days- and the impossibility of reinforcing Primary Care due to the lack of doctors and nurses.

Díaz Ayuso's request to Sánchez at their meeting today would try to alleviate these two deficiencies, as sources from the regional government explained to EL MUNDO.

It is not the first time in this health crisis that demands more involvement of the Armed Forces and, in fact,

Madrid is one of the autonomous communities that has requested 150 Army trackers

.

Sources from Moncloa confirm their willingness for the Army to lend a hand in the areas of the capital hardest hit by the coronavirus.

In this sense, they assure that Sánchez will offer the president all the means she requires to implement the restrictive measures that come into force today and cite, by way of example, the collaboration of the police and also of the Armed Forces.

In fact, Madrid's request is already being analyzed by the central government since

the chiefs of staff of the two presidents, Iván Redondo and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, respectively, have been in permanent contact

throughout the weekend.

The intention, they assure from Moncloa, is that the meeting is "fruitful" and they point out that Pedro Sánchez will attend the meeting with Díaz Ayuso "with the best of dispositions."

It is the same attitude with which the president of Madrid will receive Sánchez at the headquarters of the Community, although the meeting takes place after

Ayuso has requested it up to six times over the last few months

.

Until now, the president had always considered Sunday video conferences with all regional leaders to be sufficient, although the poor epidemiological evolution in Madrid made him reconsider his attitude last Friday.

In the Government they claim to be "aware of the specificities" presented by a community like Madrid, the center of the peninsula and a huge communications interchange with an incessant flow of people coming not only from all parts of the national geography, but also from abroad.

And, in this sense, they explain that the president gives full support to the measures announced by Ayuso on Friday and that this Monday they come into force.

They also insist that, on the part of Sánchez,

he will not fall into the "temptation of reproach" and they hope to find the same attitude in the Madrid president

.

“The problem is too important, it already affects almost a million people and if it is not stopped quickly it can spill over.

In that case - they explain - the measures to be adopted would be much more drastic and their social and economic consequences very serious.

In order not to achieve this, Díaz Ayuso will transfer two other requests to Sánchez, as EL MUNDO has learned.

On the one hand, seek "legal mechanisms" that allow the autonomous communities to adopt the necessary measures with full "legal certainty";

and on the other, to strengthen

the supervision of travelers who access Madrid through Barajas airport

, as the regional Executive has been demanding for weeks, but also those who do so using the AVE.

All are demands shared by the PP government partner in Madrid, Ciudadanos, with whom there was no discrepancy last week on the measures to be adopted, according to sources from the orange formation.

From Moncloa they also want to insist that the aid to Madrid should not be interpreted as something exceptional and they emphasize that the Government has a "hand outstretched" towards any other territory that requires it without raising fears of a competency invasion.

The sources consulted, moreover, not only do not rule out but consider it "highly probable" that Sánchez will shortly convene a new Conference of Presidents.

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