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After the judicial blow received this Thursday, the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, proposed to the Community of Madrid to meet immediately, at five in the afternoon, to agree on the way forward.

A photo with which to save face after the tumble suffered by the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid, which annulled the lock on the capital and other surrounding municipalities decreed without consensus by the minister.

But in the Community of Madrid they preferred to wait for their technicians to prepare a court-proof proposal before sitting down with Health.

In fact, this Thursday afternoon was frantic in Puerta del Sol, the seat of the Madrid Government, with internal meetings of various gangs to draw up a new order "worked, complete but simple", after the ruling of the TSJM.

"It is an inescapable priority before calling a new meeting of the Covid group [chaired by Minister Illa and the Madrid Minister of Health,

Enrique Ruiz Escudero

]," according to sources from the regional Executive.

With the epidemiological data playing in their favor, in the Community of Madrid they did not want to rush this Thursday after the Ministry of Health has crashed into the wall of Justice.

At least in part of the coalition government, since Vice President Ignacio Aguado, from Ciudadanos, pushed for the new meeting to be held yesterday.

"First we want to have a serious proposal, go to a meeting just for the photo we are not going to do it," they explained to EL MUNDO from Sol.

Tendency to "dialogue"

At noon this Thursday, in a public appearance, President Isabel Díaz Ayuso had already opted for agreeing with the central government on "clear, concise, fair and sensible" measures.

With the judgment of the TSJM under his arm, Díaz Ayuso extended his hand to the Executive of Pedro Sánchez and reiterated his willingness to "dialogue" to avoid the "chaos" that, in his opinion, the latest measures that he has tried to impose have caused. unsuccessful Minister Illa.

"We ask to do things with the time and prudence that we have been denied," said the Madrid president.

Ayuso stressed that the court ruling confirms that the measures imposed by Health were "hasty" and "not consensual", as defended by his Government.

and announced that it was withdrawing the precautionary measures requested before the National High Court to "avoid further confusion" among the people of Madrid, whom it asked "not to leave Madrid now that a bridge is coming" and "follow all the health recommendations" while waiting for the new measurements.

A new state of alarm

Although at first, after hearing the sentence, President Pedro Sánchez threatened the Community of Madrid with applying the state of alarm - "This instrument, like others, the Government has always contemplated," he said from Algiers, then lowered the tone and opted for dialogue, claiming that the ruling of the Supreme Court forces them to a pact: "If Justice says it has to be another mechanism, we will have to evaluate it with Madrid and make the appropriate decisions."

In this sense, he offered "the maximum collaboration and cooperation", and respect the "competences" of autonomy, but also pointed out that the situation of the pandemic in this territory is "serious" and the measures proposed by the ministry must be continued so that it is "more controlled."

This is the framework with which Health is facing today's meeting.

Outstretched hand, summed up in Moncloa, with the sole purpose of ending up paying attention to their sanitary approaches to restricting mobility.

But without totally ruling out declaring the state of alarm.

"We consider the evolution of the pandemic worrying and, consequently, we have to put all the instruments and measures on the table to bend the curve," they add.

In any case, it would not be a state of alarm like the one that occurred in March, with general confinement, which is what this constitutional figure goes back to in the minds of citizens, but the formula so that Madrid can be closed and restricted legally mobility.

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