In the summer of the mask, not all politicians set a public example of its use. Or, at least, in the relaxed perches that occur in these days of August. This is what happened with the Valencian president Ximo Puig , who has acted as host in the Alicante town of Jávea for the Ministers of Science, Pedro Duque , and of Social Security, José Luis Escrivá . No one was wearing a mask when they took a photo on the beach of Barraca de Jávea, facing the sea and in a relaxed attitude.

And this despite the fact that the mask is mandatory at all times , also in the Valencian Community and although the interpersonal safety distance cannot be kept. The Generalitat Valenciana itself regulated it in mid-July when coronavirus infections soared.

Hence, the Popular Party of the Valencian Community has already announced that it will present a complaint to the Ministry of Justice to open a sanctioning file against the president of the Generalitat himself and the ministers, as well as the former Minister of the Interior, Antonio Camacho, and the socialist mayor of the town, José Chulvi, who also accompanied them. According to the PP, the photograph does not comply with decree law 11/2020, of July 24, of the Consell, of a specific sanctioning regime against non-compliance with the regulatory provisions of prevention measures against Covid-19.

According to the PP, "Valencian and Spanish society expects that the attitude of a president of the Generalitat, of two ministers of the Government of Spain, of a former minister and a mayor is exemplary and does not flaunt the breach of standards approved to prevent new shoots. "

The mayor himself had to come out to apologize for the photograph. "I want to apologize to the people who may have been hurt by the image. I understand it. It is a very difficult time for each and every gesture counts. Especially those of the public officials," Chulvi said on his Facebook profile.

However, he explained that "it was a meal in the open air, in one of the fishermen's huts on the beach, that is, a private space ."

"At one point, the diners are asked to get up to take that photo and we do it just as we were at the table, where the mask was not mandatory. Nor was the maximum number of members of a meeting exceeded," he said. Chulvi explained. Of course, he has recognized in any case that "it is an unfortunate example" , although he has regretted that the PP wants to "make money out of a photo by taking it out of context and wanting to do meaningless damage."

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