• https://www.elmundo.es/ciencia-y-salud/salud/2020/03/30/5e817ba4fdddff906a8b4575.html.Coronavirus in Spain, latest news: Spain reaches 85,195 infected and already exceeds China

The confusion generated by hundreds of thousands of companies around the decree announced yesterday by the Government to "hibernate" the economy with the paralysis of non-essential activities and the subsequent establishment of a moratorium to apply it have led to the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz , to apologize today. "The measure of the Council of Ministers was passed in time to the BOE but sometimes the mayor is complicated. There is understanding of these criticisms but I do not accept that there is talk of improvisation, this has not been done overnight," he said in an interview. granted in the Public Mirror program.

Minister Díaz's explanations regarding the Government's forecast and strategy to paralyze the economy collide with the statements made by the businessmen , which indicate that they have not been consulted and have been very critical since last Friday with the drift that the government is taking. Minister of Labor to justify her extraordinary measures. Specifically, CEOE and Cepyme have pointed to the "criminalization" of companies carried out by Díaz when he has warned that he will automatically review all the Temporary Employment Regulation Files (ERTE) to punish fraud.

"We are in contact every day and every hour with the social partners. We are very aware of the seriousness of the measures but we need confinement, there is no other tool," he explained before moving forward that "tomorrow we will have a new council of ministers with new measures. "that has not detailed . He has underlined, as in his last appearance after a council of ministers and after a tweet from Vice President Pablo Iglesias, pointing out that the entire wealth of the country regardless of its ownership is subordinated to the general interest , that the Government will abound in this line.

Díaz has not advanced how many millions of workers will be affected by the economic paralysis decreed by the Government, nor has he specified how much money this policy is supplying and how many resources it is committing. It has been emphatic about the increasing pressure for the State to postpone the income campaign or the liquidation of the collection of certain taxes such as VAT . "We all have to make sacrifices. We are taking measures that cost several points of GDP to provide benefits, I ask caution when requesting that the payment of taxes be suspended."

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