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The president of Spain by Night, Ramón Mas , said this Friday that the nightlife sector will take to court the decision of the Government and the autonomies to close nightclubs, bars and dance halls throughout the country to stop the increase of coronavirus cases, while demanding a rescue from the autonomous communities.

The president of the business organization of nightclubs and nightclubs has considered this decision a "total aberration" , which has been taken "without speaking" with the leisure employers, or with businessmen, and without offering any rescue plan or aid, has ensured, for this sector that represents 1.8% of GDP, which generates 200,000 jobs and includes 25,000 companies .

"You cannot close a strategic sector of this country in this way, without explaining it to businessmen, without planning its future, without having agreed on absolutely anything," Mas explained to Efe, while lamenting that "in this country there is no problems are faced head on. " "We have no choice but to go to court , take this to the judges so that they agree with us, because I believe that it has been done completely wrong."

In addition, from Spain by Night it is going to "require the communities to each make an economic rescue plan" for discos, bars and dance halls, and that plan will also be requested from the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism.

"We are already tired of this situation. It is not possible to play like this with wealth, companies, workers and so many families. This cannot continue like this, we are absolutely outraged with this improvised decision, taken without any kind of planning," he added More.

The president of Spain by Night recalled that 60% of the companies in the sector have not opened since March, and that those that have raised the blind have done so in "very bad" conditions with capacity limitations.

"We have passed some phases, a confinement, they told us that we were in the new normal and the new normal is that they close us again. Make our companies disappear, this is what this Government and the autonomous communities are doing," he asserted . The omen is that "70% of companies in this country will disappear" in the "greatest economic crisis" that Spain will have.

Until now, nightlife in the Community of Madrid was allowed to open, although only until 1.30. A schedule restriction adopted on July 29, which also caused complaints in this sector.

Businessmen, worried: "We are in total ruin"

The concern is shared by more nightlife entrepreneurs. "Now a new total closure is not that it places us on the brink of the abyss, but that we are in total ruin , " said the general secretary of Spain NightLife, Joaquim Boadas , who has requested aid for the sector.

For Boadas, there are alternative measures "less drastic" than the total closure of nightlife throughout Spain, such as lowering capacity; seek the implementation of more security measures; look for a way to respect the distance between tables; or that people "have more awareness of wearing the mask more."

In this sense, he has asked the Public Administration to "spend money to raise awareness", since "only" he has seen an awareness campaign in Madrid. "This could help us avoid having to suffer this very restrictive way, which is the total closure," he told Europa Press.

When asked if nightlife businessmen and clients have followed health standards during the new normality, Boadas pointed out that "there is everything", but that "it cannot be that they pay just for sinners." "There are clients who have behaved and clients who have not behaved, but this cannot be a reason for punishing the entire sector."

Possible helps

However, Boadas sees "some light at the end of the tunnel" since, as he has assured, he has spoken with the Ministry of Tourism and has confirmed that they would "help them with the issue of rents." "They have confirmed that they will help us with the rental issue. Tourism is channeling these grants. They have also told us that they will help us to extend the ERTE until the end of the year," he said.

Likewise, the nightlife sector asks for aid for the deferral of taxes and social security; that a twelve-month moratorium be applied on mortgages and personal loans; or that the Government regulate the Rebus sic stantibus clause with a Bill.

The secretary general of Spain Nightlife has stressed that without these grants "80 percent of nightlife will present a pre-contest of creditors in November", something that will affect "the 300,000 jobs that hang in the sector". "The situation is very worrying," he concluded.

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