Escudero has no doubt that Djokovic can be a claim for Madrid, but he must comply with the rules: "He will have to come vaccinated"

• Australian Open The Djokovic case reaches Spanish politics: will he be able to play in Madrid?

The Minister of Health of the

,

, has stressed this Tuesday that Novak Djokovic, world number one, may be a claim for the

but has asked to be "very clear" about the need to respect the rules to influence that the Serbian tennis player must be vaccinated if he wants to play the Madrid tournament.

"I do not doubt the claim that it may be for that tournament, but I reiterate that it will have to come vaccinated so that it can compete, logically," stressed the head of Madrid's Health Department in statements to the press after an act at the

, in

, where he presented the new medical video consultation through the

.

The Madrid councilor has thus referred to the words of the mayor of Madrid,

, who has maintained that Djokovic would be "a great claim" for the tournament to be held from April 26 to May 8 in Madrid since he follows being number one despite what happened in

and the fact that

has already announced that it will not be able to participate in

.

"I do not doubt Novak Djokovic's tennis quality, because that is sufficiently proven, but from a health point of view, if he is not vaccinated, he will not be able to participate in a tournament in Madrid since the rules are there to be met and they have to be met. all the people who come to play this tournament", Ruiz Escudero underlined.

In this line, he has stressed the need to comply with the rules and has recalled that, as in tennis tournaments, in the Community they are also met in other events such as the

(

), which will require a vaccination certificate or antigen test to attendees.

"What has happened to him in

has been for not complying with the rules and he has been deported. I think that in this sense we must be very clear and I insist that the rules are there for everyone to comply with in a similar way," he has done. The counselor emphasized after Australia's decision to expel the tennis player for not complying with the requirement of being vaccinated against

.

Ayuso: the rules "must be met"

For her part, the president of the Community of Madrid,

, has maintained this Tuesday that she does not share the vision of the Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic, and has defended that the rules set by the administrations "must be complied with".

"I believe that each country sets its standards and they must be met," he declared.

Likewise, he has conveyed that he does not share his vision on vaccines and, although he respects the decisions of each one, "the rules are there to comply with them and each country is sovereign to establish them as well as each administration."

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