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The close collaboration of the Government and Citizens will continue in the coming weeks. From both sides they highlight the will to reach agreements, which have allowed in the last month and a half to improve the extensions of the state of alarm decreed by the coronavirus crisis and then the decree of the new normality approved this Tuesday by the Council of Ministers.

The Government has so far fulfilled all its commitments, according to sources from Cs. And the party chaired by Inés Arrimadas has not stopped working to reach agreements in exchange for different improvements.

As the Executive and the liberal formation agreed again on Tuesday, they will soon start working on important legislative changes so that the state of alarm is not necessary in the event of outbreaks of Covid-19 or other pandemics or health crises.

It is about undertaking the necessary changes in the General Health Law and other regulations in order to give more power to the Government in the event of an emergency and to improve regional coordination in a similar situation, since health management is a regional competence.

Arrimadas breaks with Rivera's line

As Cs spokesman in Congress, Edmundo Bal, has assured, it will be a "more powerful" legislation so as not to have to resort to the state of alarm, which is "a situation of abnormality and constitutional exceptionality."

With this fourth and important agreement in a month and a half, Inés Arrimadas thus breaks completely with the line that Albert Rivera marked throughout 2019 and until his resignation after the electoral debacle in November. As Edmundo Bal assures, the liberal formation tries to make "useful politics that flees from screaming" and that makes "decisions with the head and not with the guts".

Bal never wants to expressly cite other parties that have rejected the state of alarm, such as the PP or Vox, but he does point out that other formations rejected the alarm or criticized it, but "have not contributed anything" to get out of this exceptional situation.

The Cs leadership has suffered multiple pressures: from within, with important former leaders openly criticizing this strategy, and from the outside, since PP and, more openly, Vox have questioned that Arrimadas supports some measures by Pedro Sánchez, even if it is to "save lives and jobs, "as she argues.

Cs objective: reach agreements

Juan Carlos Girauta, a Cs benchmark who unsubscribed after the first agreement with the Executive, has gone so far as to say that the liberal party has become "the hinge" of the Government or even its "toilet brush," according to wrote on social networks.

From the Cs Executive Committee, however, they prefer not to comment on it, look ahead and insist that their strategy consists of working to reach agreements and get out of the health and economic crisis, "which is what most Spaniards ask for" they claim.

In addition, Cs continues to do hard work in opposition to the Government. Last week, it was the first party to demand the resignation of the Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, for the dismissal of the Colonel of the Civil Guard, Diego Pérez de los Cobos . And it maintains intact its government agreements with the PP in four autonomous communities, despite the bad relationship of Isabel Díaz Ayuso (PP), with its vice president Ignacio Aguado (Cs).

Thanks to the latest agreement of the Government and Cs, the country will enter on June 21 in what the Executive calls the new normal . That day will be the first out of the state of alarm and circulation throughout the territory will be allowed. But nothing will be as before. A stage closes and another of coexistence with the coronavirus opens, which forces you not to let your guard down.

The 'new normal', to Congress

The Government has regulated in a decree this new reality that requires the use of masks for over six years of age both in open and closed spaces and perpetuates social distance in personal relationships. They will no longer be two meters of security. After the negotiation with Ciudadanos, who will vote in favor of this new regulation, it has been established that they are 1.5 meters.

On the street, when this separation cannot be maintained, the mask should continue to be used and always on public transport. The fine for not doing it will be 100 euros. This imposition will last for months. The new normal will continue until a vaccine is found. Only at that moment, when "we defeat the virus", according to the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, the Executive can end this situation.

The country will complete the de-escalation in less than two weeks, but this new legislation, which Congress will debate for its validation next week, will maintain tight control of the health situation through the communities. The decree abounds in cooperation, but leaves the Executive room to act in case of emergency.

Along with Cs, the PNV will give its support. In the hands of the autonomies it remains to regulate gauging and to have contingency plans in case there are outbreaks.

Decisions, by consensus

Sources of the orange formation explained this Tuesday that the reduction of the social distance from two meters to 1.5 "continues to protect against contagions" and allows "the economy to be reactivated more strongly" because the capacity of shops and other stores can be expanded business.

In addition, Cs ensured that sanitary decisions should be made from now on by consensus in the Inter-territorial Health Council and not by majority.

Also on the proposal of Cs, it has been approved "to reward teleworking" and that the Government commits itself to consulting communities on decisions such as attendance at sporting events in the return of professional sport "without the existence of privileges." As claimed by the Cs parliamentary spokesman, the decree is "essential to continue fighting the coronavirus and reactivate the economy."

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