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Monday, July 6, 2020 - 6:32 PM

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In La Mariña, Lugo for weeks, the biggest problem is not the coronavirus. The threat of dismissal of 534 workers at the Alcoa aluminum plant, which represents 30% of the province's GDP, has left behind the ban on entering or leaving 14 municipalities, which have never been easy to enter or leave.

A fifth of the province of Lugo, 71,000 residents, started on Monday five days of 'reconfining', which would abandon the day of reflection of the regional elections. The regrowth adds 128 infected, of which 119 remain active, half of those in all of Galicia. Most are young people who either have no symptoms or are very mild. Four are admitted to the Burela hospital. None in the ICU.

Because of Alcoa, La Mariña has been present at all the rallies of the campaign, and is now present at its suspension. The PSOE has extended the cancellation of its acts to the entire province. The Galician Nationalist Bloc has directly asked not to hold elections in the region. And the leader of Galicia En Común-Podemos, and other leftist brands, Gómez Reino, has seen in the outbreak an opportunity to call Feijóo "irresponsible" and accuse him of: "Putting his strategy before our lives."

The president of the Xunta, the most voted in 2016 in all the affected municipalities, has asked "not to do politics with the virus", and wait until Friday to see what happens. In the current circumstances, the Xunta has announced that the residents will vote. City councils are setting up wards to reduce the risk, but if things get worse, the legislation would allow the area to postpone voting.

New old measures

The rain collaborated this Monday with compliance with the new old measures. The few open hotels expect an occupancy of between 15% and 30%, although today there was no sign of tourists walking around Viveiro or Burela under the umbrella. Many businesses have regrowth even before reopening.

The Xunta de Galicia does not have an official version of the outbreak, but former President Núñez Feijoo pointed this weekend to "two or three bars in the port area" of Burela , which have also "closed". In the Kiko brewery, one of the open, three retirees compare epidemiological data between red wine and tortilla skewers. They review the origin of the focus among the 10,000 residents. First they blame one brought by a relative from France, and end up targeting the grandchildren. Immediately they go to the elections: "You will see how they open us on Saturday and close us again on Monday."

A few meters away, the fishing fleet remains moored. Television cameras talk to fishermen, many from Senegal and Cape Verde, who arrived in the 70s to the north of the end of the world to catch hake and bonito from the Cantabrian Sea, in case they know someone who catches the coronavirus from the indicated bars, but no luck.

On the beaches the use of the mask is mandatory except for bathing. In Portelo they have put a yellow flag, one of those that would be red in the rest of the world's beaches. There is only one bather without a mask, just in case the rain bathes him.

Traffic signs, walls, streets, squares, balconies and shop windows of the region are taken by graffiti and posters with protest messages, or the blue ribbon that symbolizes the fight against the closure of the plant. In Viveiro's main square, the statue of the local hero, Nicomedes Pastor Díaz, O'Donnell's writer and minister of state, wears a plaintiff claiming the work. Opposite, in the La Resaca bar, the props of phase two of the state of alarm are rescued, as the signs prohibiting the use of the bar. On the terraces a table falls until the capacity is reduced to the old 50% normality.

Exclusion zone

For Alcoa it rains in the wet. The Official Gazette of Galicia again prohibits meetings of more than 10 people, and that includes any protest by the workers. The Xunta and the BNG demand an intervention by the Government of Spain to nationalize the company; and these respond with the fact that it is Galicia that has the competences in Industry. This is how they carry the entire campaign.

Since they cannot leave the exclusion zone, the workers have suspended the large demonstration scheduled for this Friday in La Coruña. But also the meeting they had this Tuesday with the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Raúl Blanco, and they hope to be able to hold it electronically. Neither can they continue with the negotiation of the ERE in Lugo, so the president of the works committee, José Antonio Zan, has appealed to the "in good faith" of the company, to withdraw a file that now affects people who " They can't even fight for their job. "

The accesses in La Mariña are taken by the Civil Traffic Guard , who again require drivers work permits, or some other justified cause. It is allowed to pass through the roads of La Mariña, to avoid kilometer-long detours in northern Spain, but if one promises not to stop. Movements between the 14 municipalities are also allowed, although the Xunta has asked the neighbors not to do it better.

The 305 students from the region who will start the EBAU today have also been affected. Those of Ortigueira, who normally were examined in Viveiro, despite not being part of La Mariña, will send them to Ferrol so that they do not have to enter. And those from Mondoñedo, who normally went to Lugo, will also go to Viveiro so they don't have to leave. As an extraordinary measure, to the meter and a half of distance that will separate the tables from the rest of the students, in La Mariña another half meter will be added. The schedule says that they start at 10, with History of Spain.

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