Díaz Ayuso defiende energía nuclear y renovables, critica gestión de la inmigración

Díaz Ayuso also defended nuclear energy alongside renewables, and advocated for more energy autonomy and lower taxes. “We are going in the opposite direction to Europe,” she stated during her speech at the XXVIII Conference of regional presidents, held at the Palau de Pedralbes in Barcelona.

She denounced that over a month has passed since the blackout and the reasons still have not been communicated, they are «still being hidden.» “But in the eyes of the world, Spain has gone dark,” she added.

The head of the regional government rejected forgiving Catalonia’s debt while there is a financing system that “only benefits nationalists.” “The Catalan quota does not fit within the Constitution. I believe we have the right to demand that no region becomes a parallel nation with the money of the rest of Spaniards, because this is unsustainable,” the president said.

Díaz Ayuso recalled that the Community of Madrid is the region that contributes the most to the financing system: “80% of our revenue goes directly to the General State Administration.”

At the end of the meeting, the Madrid president requested that Spanish become the third official language in the EU. «Many times co-official languages are not being used as a richness, but as a weapon of division. If we have come here to talk among ourselves and address common issues, why not do it in a common language? Having to do it through a translator when we all speak Spanish perfectly,” she explained.