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The State Attorney's Office studies the constitutionality of the decree-law approved last night by the Generalitat to give legal coverage to the confinement of the city of Lleida and seven municipalities in the El Segrià region , which hours earlier had been rejected by the courts. In some declarations in RNE, the first vice president of the Government , Carmen Calvo, has not wanted to advance if she believes that it is beyond the competence of the State because it is an opinion, she said, that it should be issued "with the corresponding technical legal reports" but it has advanced that last night in the Executive "a first reading has already been made".

The president of the Generalitat , Quim Torra, has opted for this route after the Investigating Court number 1 of Lleida reversed on Sunday the decision of the Government to prohibit exits and entrances in all that area and decreed house confinement. To avoid this judicial pronouncement, which urged Torra to ask the Executive for the declaration of a state of alarm, the president called an extraordinary meeting of the Govern on Monday night and modified, through a decree, the 2009 public health law In this way, it allows the health authority, in the event of a health emergency, to limit the activity and provision of services and the movement of people.

Calvo has revealed that yesterday he called the Catalan vice president, Pere Aragonès, to convey to him that, in his opinion, there was scope to appeal that car. "I think it would have to be resorted to," he said, as a "working route" prior to the approval of that decree. "The Generalitat has powers for certain decisions that affect mobility that do not require the highest range of alarm status." "That order can be appealed to a higher instance to have, perhaps, with all due respect to the Judiciary, a different pronouncement."

Despite the outbreaks that are taking place in many areas of Spain, the Executive's position is that the autonomous communities "have instruments" to respond. "There are answers for specific situations, for the day to day," the vice president has insisted, "some even without judicial authorization and others communicated to the courts that have been considered correct."

And after the health emergency and the general confinement that this country has gone through, the Government understands that we are facing a "slight" situation, which does not require a new state of alarm even if it was only for one territory. That is why Calvo has reiterated that he "disagrees" with the judicial resolution that has overturned the measures of the Generalitat in Lleida and Sebrià and that the Govern "must appeal because we have seen cars in a different sense."

But before Torra's decision to opt for a decree-law, the government's number two recalled that the autonomies "can legislate as long as they do not invade state powers." "In everything that is aligned with its powers, nothing to say, but what is not constitutional is not in his case, even if it is a pandemic."

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