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The selectivity examination carried out by the Ministry of Health to decide which territories can undertake Phase 1 of the population's lack of confinement and return to activity from next Monday, has raised blisters in several communities that demand a review of their records - Valencia and Andalusia - they warn that they will immediately present a new one - Madrid - or regret in a low voice that at the last moment, the team led by Salvador Illa introduced new requirements to be met, as is the case of Castilla-La Mancha .

Of all of them, the Valencian Community , chaired by the socialist Ximo Puig, has been the hardest, frontally disagreeing with the Government's decision and sliding that, after it, there may be political reasons.

"The Valencian Community will be in a position to enter Phase 1 of the de-escalation from May 11. The numbers of Health and the descent of infected and entered thus says it ». Ximo Puig was forceful on May 3 after the videoconference of regional presidents with Pedro Sánchez, but his statement has not been met.

The Valencian Community requested that it be evaluated by health departments and not by provinces and the exam has only been passed by ten, who barely represent 30% of the population of the autonomy. Punished in Phase 0 have remained the three provincial capitals, large cities such as Elche and the metropolitan areas. The outrage over the Health decision led the Valencian president to request a revision "as soon as possible" of the plan presented.

A verdict that seemed 48 hours before was going to be very different. Thus, he moved publicly not only for Puig, who even advanced work for the opening of the beaches, but also for his Minister of Health, the also socialist Ana Barceló .

From the Palau de la Generalitat it slips that the decision not to allow an advance by the entire community is political, but the data that would corroborate that thesis are kept secret and the Ministry is asked to clarify what are the "weaknesses" that have not been allowed to advance phase.

The only example that the Ministry gave was the rate of infection per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days: "While our data is 13.59 and we are among the six communities with the lowest incidence, there are others that have passed with a 63." This data belongs to the Basque Country and from the Generalitat its approval is linked to the support of the PNV to the extension of the state of alarm. But neither does he stop looking at Madrid . With most of Catalonia in Phase 0 and Seville advancing, it could have been the only big capital punished. The feeling is that we have sought to accompany her from Valencia .

According to the Ministry, on Wednesday the 6th all the information required by the Illa department was provided and a message was transmitted to them: "Matrícula de Honor". It was on Friday when, after the Inter-territorial Health Council , the jug of cold water arrived.

The Generalitat defends that it does not know what criteria it has not met. "We want to know the technical criteria to know what our weakness is," insists Barceló. Population density and mobility between territories are two of the reasons that they intuit. The intention of the Valencian Government is to convince Health tomorrow and try to advance in the de-escalation at the latest on Monday May 18.

The discomfort and identical intentions are perceived in the Andalusian community. Also its president, the popular Juanma Moreno, wants explanations and the revision of his file. Moreno aspired that his entire community, with the exception of some sanitary district, would enter Phase 1 together, but, finally, Health picked up two complete provinces: Malaga and Granada , which will remain in Phase 0.

«The map of Andalusia should be painted in the color of Phase 1. It is difficult to understand that in other Autonomous Communities a de-escalation is allowed by health districts and in Andalusia, no. I will ask that this decision be reviewed and the same criteria be applied to us as to the others, "he warned. His presidential adviser, Elías Bendodo went further. In his opinion, curiously coinciding with that which the Valencian Community hints at, criteria have been used "more by government partner than by parameters related to health".

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  • Valencian Community
  • Andalusia
  • PNV
  • Valencia
  • Ximo Puig
  • Seville
  • Salvador Illa
  • Pedro Sánchez
  • Basque Country
  • Castilla la Mancha
  • Catalonia
  • Malaga
  • Pomegranate
  • Madrid
  • Descaled
  • Lack of confidence
  • Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla

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