The opening hours of the restaurants confronted this Monday the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and the second vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz. Although the leader of Sumar has been very critical of the fact that restaurants remain open until one in the morning, which she has considered to distance Spain from the rest of the European countries, the leader of the PP has charged against the vice president, as usually does, through social networks.
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During his speech at the meeting of Sumar’s parliamentary group in Congress, Díaz said that “it is not reasonable” that there are restaurants open at one in the morning and he considers it “crazy the difference with the rest of Europe.” “We cannot expect to continue extending the hours until we know what time,” said the Vice President of the Government, and has advanced that work is being done on rationalizing the time.
After these statements, Ayuso stressed that “we are different” from the rest of Europe, and Spain “has the best nightlife in the world, with the streets full of life and freedom.” “And that also provides employment,” he remarked.
The general secretary of the PP of Madrid, Alfonso Serrano, has called it “absurd” that the left seeks to “limit the way in which Madrid and Spaniards live.” “I suppose Mrs. Yolanda Díaz wants the restaurants to close so that we can all go home and read The Communist Manifesto with a lamp and a cup of tea,” he said ironically.
In his opinion, the “success” of the hospitality industry comes from this freedom of schedules in the region, and he has considered it “insulting to try to condition people’s lives.”
