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The Government does not budge from its position on the extension of the state of alarm. Despite the fact that for the first time the authorization of Congress is not guaranteed, due to the rejection of the PP, PNV and ERC to further extend this situation, which provides the Executive with extraordinary powers, the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, has insisted this morning that it is "essential" to carry out the de-escalation.

After the Executive approved the state of alarm on March 14, which limited mobility and economic activity and confined the Spaniards to their homes, today the transition process begins to regain normality through various phases. In an appearance in La Moncloa , Illa has assured those who ask for his uprising that "there is no alternative" and that "it is better not to carry out experiments that can lead to chaos."

As the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, already pointed out on Saturday, the Executive insists that no legal formula can protect the restriction of free movement or extraordinary aid by the State due to the economic and social effects of the pandemic. The Minister of Transport, José Luis Ábalos, also Secretary of the Organization of the PSOE, has addressed the PP directly, whose support may be crucial if other groups such as the PNV or ERC - Sánchez's parliamentary partners - do not endorse it, and has assured that if they do not vote in favor of a new extension "they will have to answer to citizens if there is a rebound in cases". "We can only ask and expect the parties to act responsibly," he stressed.

Sánchez has maintained contacts with Pablo Casado today and, according to Ábalos, the conversation has lasted an hour but without any approach because the feeling of the Government, he said, is that they are going to vote against maintaining the state of alarm. In line with Illa, the number three of the PSOE has warned that this would produce sanitary and economic chaos.

The two ministers have agreed in arguing that if the Covid-19 health emergency continues, there is no reason to renounce this tool and that it should be maintained to act in the face of a new outbreak of infections.

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  • Salvador Illa
  • José Luis Ábalos
  • Descaled
  • Lockdown
  • Lack of confidence
  • Pedro Sánchez
  • Covid 19
  • Coronavirus
  • State of alarm
  • PP
  • PSOE
  • PNV
  • ERC
  • Pablo Casado

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