PP, Ciudadanos and UPN have asked explanations to the Health Minister Salvador Illa about the non-existent committee of experts in which the Government used to justify the decisions taken during the pandemic. The opposition has branded the Executive's "lie" as "teasing" and "alibi" to present as scientific decisions what were only political decisions and has considered the current situation of the country as "chaotic".

The false committee of experts has been one of the issues addressed today in the Health Commission before which Illa has appeared at her own request and with extraordinary character to describe as "controlled" the situation of the outbreaks in Spain and bet on "not having fear but I do respect "a virus that" is not gone "even though it now causes" milder cases, many asymptomatic "and" does not put considerable pressure "on the health system.

Illa has reviewed the various committees with which the Government has had throughout the state of alarm and has admitted that there was no specific expert who decided which territories did or did not pass the phase of de-escalation. In reality, he explained, it was the technicians from the Alarms and Emergencies Center directed by Dr. Fernando Simón who were advising the Government. "There was no expert committee as such" but "technical criteria that the director general of Public Health referred to the Minister," explained Illa, who also added that he made the ultimate political decision.

The Minister of Health has also ensured that, in his opinion, the Autonomous Communities have "sufficient tools" -some require judicial authorization if they imply restriction of rights, as is the case with confinements- to adopt the appropriate measures to contain outbreaks and Furthermore, they are doing it "quickly and adequately and with the support of the Government." Illa has considered that it is not necessary to recover the "single command" because the current scenario, he stressed, "is one of control."

From the opposition they have replicated their intervention calling it "frivolous" and even, in some cases, demanding the "immediate resignation" of the director of the Center for Alerts and Emergencies, Fernando Simón, for "not understanding the drama that Spain is experiencing", as he has said the UPN spokesman for whom the Ministry is mired in disarray and it is beginning to be necessary to create in Congress a commission of inquiry into the government's management.

The PP has emphasized the non-existent committee of experts: "Was there a committee or not? And if there was not, who made the decisions?" Asked the PP's deputy secretary, Cuca Gamarra, for whom Fernando Simón must cease as " Government's voice "in matters that have a great impact on the country's economy, such as the tourism sector.

Citizens have also asked that the Executive "regain control, retake the reins", in areas where regrowths are out of control, as is the case in Catalonia. His spokesman has also demanded that the government "contain" Simón for his statements damaging to the tourism sector.

ERC has influenced the Ministry's delay in monitoring the movement of seasonal agricultural workers, a fact that largely explains the outbreaks in Lérida and Huesca. The Catalan republicans also ask for more controls not only at airports and ports but also at land borders.

For its part, the PNV has rejected the possibility of returning to a single command to manage the pandemic, but it has opted to maintain a "coherent" discourse from all areas, calling for increased controls at ports and airports to avoid cases. imported and has demanded explanations about the development of the telematic App to carry out the traceability of cases. In this sense, the Basque nationalist spokesperson has demanded coordination with the Ministry and to avoid "images", in evident allusion to the massive attendance at Congress of the Socialist group to applaud Pedro Sánchez, who are giving a bad example to citizens.

Vox has again accused the government of having "put its ideological and feminist agenda before the need to save lives." Its spokesman, Rocío de Meer, has urged the Government to "ask the Spanish for forgiveness" and to be extremely vigilant about "the flood of illegal immigration" that Andalusia, the Canary Islands, Valencia and Murcia are registering. Vox has also called for the immediate resignation of Fernando Simón.

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