Ayuso accuses Sánchez of applying an "energy censorship policy"

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After showing her disagreement through Twitter, the president of the Community of Madrid has voiced her criticism of the electricity saving plan approved by the central government on Monday, accusing it of applying an

.

"Madrid is not going to be turned off by decree, it is going to be turned off because

imposes it in an authoritarian manner and without consensus,"

stressed after participating in the acts of the Virgen de La Paloma, patron saint of the capital.

In Ayuso's team they do not understand that "in the middle of the summer tourist campaign" decisions are made that "affect so many private premises" and denounce that "

for them."

"It seems insane to us that we are the capital of Europe that first turns off its shop windows at the hands of a decree that

business hours of the Community of Madrid, especially affecting tourism and commerce," added the regional leader.

In short, according to Ayuso, the energy saving plan "portrays" the central government as "authoritarian, arbitrary and sloppy", an opinion in which he has said he is aligned with the president of the PP,

.

The Community of Madrid has not yet filed the appeal before the Constitutional Court against the Royal Decree that gives legal coverage to this package of measures, but it assures that it will do so soon to "demonstrate that

and in accordance with the law".

In this sense, the mayor of the capital,

, has recalled that Justice has already declared two states of alarm "illegal" during and the closure of the Congress of Deputies during the first waves of the Covid pandemic.

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