The president of the Community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has accused the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge of “improvising a technical meeting” as a rectification after “the chaos caused and the level of insults from the Government.” “After the chaos caused and the level of insults from the Government, now they rectify… They improvise a technical meeting, without an agenda, when the problem they have created is of the first political level,” Ayuso accused through social networks her.
The president of the Community has urged the minister, Teresa Ribera, to “meet in a timely manner with the councilors.” The Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge has summoned the autonomous communities to a meeting next week to clarify doubts about the Government’s energy saving plan, whose first measures will come into force next Wednesday.
It should be noted that after the announcement by the Government of Pedro Sánchez, on the night of August 1 and after the council of ministers, the energy saving plan to reduce consumption by 7% in the coming months, the Government of the Community of Madrid was very critical of some specific mandatory measures, with fines of up to 100 million euros, which must be applied, including temperatures of no more than 19º for heating and no less than 27º for air conditioning in the commerce and official buildings among others, although with exceptions.
But the measure most discussed by Ayuso has been that the shop windows must be turned off from 10:00 p.m., as well as the public buildings that are now unoccupied at that time. He responded on Monday that his government will not turn off the light in public buildings or foreign trade windows to save because, in his opinion, this will generate “insecurity” and scare “tourism and consumption.”
«By the Community of Madrid it will not be applied. Madrid does not turn off,” Ayuso said in a message posted on Twitter, collected by Europa Press. For the Madrid president, the decision of the Executive of Pedro Sánchez “causes darkness, poverty, sadness, while the Government covers the question: what savings is going to apply to itself?”, She said.
Shortly after, the Vice President and Minister of Education and Universities, Enrique Ossorio, announced that they will “seriously” analyze the Royal Decree on energy saving and efficiency measures of the central government and “if it is not constitutional”, they will appeal it.
“Anything that seems negative to us for the people of Madrid and also, of course, for the Spanish, the Community of Madrid, within its sphere of competence, that is not basic regulations, is obviously not going to apply it,” he said this week, in addition to highlighting the defects in the drafting of the Royal Decree.