The Vice President of the Government, Carmen Calvo, is probing parliamentary groups to look for legal and parliamentary formulas that will allow the de-escalation to be completed, among which parliamentary sources cite an extension of the state of alarm for one month and not fifteen days as until now.

Sources of the Executive have confirmed to Efe this Tuesday the contacts, which are limited for the moment to a contact to explore the ways with which to end the de-escalation in the most consensual way possible, after the vote of the last extension of the alarm went off after many difficulties and an arduous negotiation.

Finally, Ciudadanos and the PNV voted in favor but ERC voted against and the PP abstained, although it announced that it would vote against the next extension.

As parliamentary sources have explained to Efe, one of the possibilities that have been put on the table is to vote for a fifth extension of the state of alarm, which on this occasion would last a month and not fifteen days as until now.

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has explained on more than one occasion that the fifteen-day period was not obligatory but that chosen by the Executive to thus submit each extension to the debate of the groups every two weeks.

The Constitution does not set a maximum period in the extensions of the state of alarm, although it does when it is decreed for the first time, for a maximum period of fifteen days.

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