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The Government and Citizens are negotiating in extremis an agreement to save the state of alarm and guarantee that Congress extends it for another 15 days in tomorrow's vote. It is a decisive dialogue because Pedro Sánchez has seen the support of his parliamentary partners dilute. Without the orange party , the Prime Minister does not get the accounts, since he has to face the vote against the PP, Vox, ERC, JxCat or the CUP and the presumable abstention of the PNV, in addition to the confirmed BNG.

The 10 deputies of Ciudadanos seem like determining factors, for this reason, Inés Arrimadas has put her conditions on the table to reach an agreement. To begin with, he is demanding that Sánchez "rectify many things", such as his lack of dialogue and agreements with the rest of the political forces.

The leader of Ciudadanos has reiterated her will to reach a pact, however, at the same time she has warned that Sánchez is "capable of fulfilling his threat" yesterday to lead the country to "chaos" or to allow all the actions to be annulled. social aid that is linked to the validity of the decree of the state of alarm. "I believe it because I see him as capable," he warned, "that is why I am negotiating that the Government understands that it has to rectify."

In an interview in La Sexta, Arrimadas has reproached that the "threat" to parliamentary groups is "intolerable" when the general tone of the government has been to ignore them during the management and decision-making to address the crisis. Hence, one of the first things that Ciudadanos is demanding is precisely to amend this situation.

"She has to rectify many things: go from unilateralism to consensus and from announcing the measures on television to reaching consensus," Arrimadas said, stressing that Sánchez had not called her for 18 days. "The logical thing would be meetings or weekly calls to the opposition," he said, because it is a minority government that needs your parliamentary support even if it behaves "as if it had 200 seats."

Beyond the forms, which are very important in politics, Arrimadas has explained that he wants to agree with the Government on the modification of several of the royal decrees approved in the wake of the crisis to extend certain measures that are now linked to the validity of the state of alarm. For example, the continuation of ERTE under the same conditions or the extension of economic and social aid. Ciudadanos believes that these initiatives must continue beyond the state of alarm, to which it sees a near expiration.

In line with this, Arrimadas already wants to address a "plan B" to the state of alarm, because this is not an "eternal" mechanism nor can "sine die" be prolonged. Therefore, the Citizen leader considers that the new "legal umbrella" in which the de-escalation and management of the crisis will be structured must be studied as soon as possible.

In his opinion, the state of alarm had its effectiveness in a generalized context of confinement, but now it is time to think about an orderly exit and a revival of the economy. Hence the importance of maintaining the social protection deployed in these last two months is underlined.

"I have all the predisposition in the world to reach an agreement, but our vote will depend on what the government wants," he said. That is, to see the conditions in which it occurs "but without falling into blackmail and threat." "I don't want the government to keep its promise to lead us into chaos."

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