The President of the Government took advantage of his visit to Palma de Mallorca on Tuesday -where he went to meet with King Felipe VI, and to attend the inauguration of the new State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz- to reproach Isabel Díaz Ayuso that it is not willing to strictly apply the Royal Decree on energy savings approved by the Council of Ministers, and that it involves, among other measures, forcing the lights in shop windows to be turned off, or lighting in public buildings, starting at ten o’clock at night.
From the Almudaina Palace, Pedro Sánchez stressed at a press conference, and this time without a tie -as a symbol of energy saving-, that the law in Spain is to comply with it, inviting the political class to “flee from any behavior and decision selfish, unilateral and unsupportive”.
The socialist leader framed his speech in a European key and recalled that the president of the Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, just two days ago gave an interview to the newspaper El Mundo, where she pointed out that no energy scenario in Europe can be ruled out, while the Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to use energy as a blackmail war tool against Ukraine and the EU.
“Darkness, Sadness and Poverty”
It should be remembered that the president of the Community of Madrid was one of the first leaders to react to Sánchez’s plan, pointing out that these actions will end up scaring away tourism, consumption and generating more insecurity in the cities. “” she stated.
Contrary to the Royal Decree, Madrid adds that, like the rest of the CCAA, it has powers to defend with legal autonomy that establishments do not turn off their lights, as well as the public buildings that correspond to the different autonomies.
In addition, Ayuso indicated, the correct thing is that Sánchez, before closing and prohibiting, would have consulted with citizens and administrations, since it is a plan that cannot be applied uniformly to each corner of Spain. In this way, the Madrid administration is considering a legal study of the Royal Decree, so it does not rule out going to the Constitutional Court to defend its powers in matters of Commerce, appealing to the spirit of other royal decrees approved during the pandemic, and which were finally dismissed. by the Constitutional Court.
On social networks, the president of the Community of Madrid wrote this Tuesday that Spain is shutting down until my electoral campaign begins to show solidarity with the EU, in critical allusion to Pedro Sánchez’s decision.
The answer -continued Ayuso- is NO: “reduce 20,000 million useless expenses from your 22 ministries”.
Sánchez says: Spain is shutting down until my electoral campaign begins to be in solidarity “with the EU”.
The answer is NO: reduce 20,000 million useless expenses from your 22 ministries.
— Isabel Díaz Ayuso (@IdiazAyuso)
“Different Lenses”
In his meeting with the media, the President of the Government also made a political analysis of the unemployment data known this Tuesday, and that leave the statistics with him, for 20 years.
However, Sánchez valued the structural change in employment, arguing that these data should now be read “with different lenses”, after the labor reform that transformed discontinuous permanent workers into permanent workers.
In this sense, he indicated that in July there was an increase in permanent hiring of 145,000 jobs, and it was at all-time highs. A trend that Nadia Calviño corroborated, not without admitting a slowdown in the labor market in the second part of the month.
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