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The outbreak of coronavirus in the region of A Mariña, in Lugo, is having two totally opposite interpretations depending on the party and the institution that makes them, heating up the final stretch of the elections on Sunday, July 12. While the president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, is in favor of softening the closure agreed for 71,000 residents of 14 municipalities and keeping it only for Burela, from the Provincial Deputation of Lugo, of the PSOE, is betting on suspending the voting day in the zone.

Feijóo referred this Thursday to the situation of A Mariña after the weekly meeting of the Galician Government and announced that tomorrow you will propose to the clinical committee of experts from Galicia to lift the mobility restrictions agreed since Monday "in most" of the fourteen municipalities of the region of A Mariña (Lugo).

The measure was initially adopted for five days so that it will end tomorrow you come and the regional president will propose that it be lifted in the entire territory except in the municipality of Burela "and some more". Thus, he alleged that nine municipalities in the region have not registered any cases in the last 10 days and Burela concentrates about 80% of the positives.

In the health area of ​​Lugo, which encompasses the A Mariña area, there are 190 active cases of coronavirus on Thursday, 24 more than the day before, of which five correspond to people admitted to the Public Hospital of Mariña, in Burela, and one at the Lucus Augusti University Hospital (HULA), Lugo. It is the most affected area of ​​Galicia.

This lifting of the closure that Feijóo will raise to the committee of experts would not mean the end of the measures in the area, but "for reasons of prudence" will remain in the municipalities that open the obligation to wear a mask for five more days and also the restrictions of capacity in commercial premises and the limits to the meeting of people.

Faced with this relaxation of the restrictions of which Feijóo is a supporter, the president of the Lugo Provincial Council, the socialist José Tomé, has asked this Thursday that it is "convenient" to suspend the autonomous elections in the A Mariña region. The petition has been transferred to the Galician president himself and PP candidate for reelection through a letter in which he insists that "not enough sanitary guarantees are given" to go to vote.

José Tomé believes that, given the current health situation in this area of ​​Lugo, an electoral process cannot be held "with guarantees of participation" and in "freedom, equality and security of health" for all those who want to exercise their democratic right to vote "without any fear".

The health situation of A Mariña has already confronted the mayors of the region in recent days. Ten of the PSOE and the BNG already asked for this same suspension of the elections on Wednesday and the other four mayors, of the PP, accused them of "unwarranted alarmism", with "clearly electoral purposes" to "condition" partisan elections.

Also the national president of the PP, Pablo Casado, sees "alarmism" in those who want to suspend the elections. At an event in the port of A Pobra do Caramiña in A Coruña, he indicated that he sees no reason to be afraid of going to vote on Sunday in the elections. There is "full guarantee and security to exercise your vote" in Galicia, he assured.

The PP leader, very involved in the electoral campaign in Galicia, insisted that "it is as safe to go to an electoral college for four or 10 minutes on Sunday as to go to the pharmacy or a store" and assured that the outbreaks "are perfectly located "and alarmism cannot be called" as other parties are doing. "

The Galician Electoral Board has already concluded this week, in response to the request of the BNG and Marea Galeguista to suspend the elections in the region until the health emergency is over, given the circumstances to go to vote on Sunday, for as long as administrative, economic and social activities are carried out normally, "the conditions" of the electoral process are not understood to be affected.

Despite this resolution, BNG leader Ana Pontón insisted on Thursday that she considered the "irresponsibility" with which Feijóo is acting against the virus intolerable and predicted that it would take its toll on the elections.

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