The Government insists on demanding tough measures in Madrid and asks the PP not to engage in "partisan politics"

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The Minister of Transport and Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, José Luis Ábalos, has charged from

against the PP for "engaging in partisan politics" with the pandemic and for "calling into question the institutionality itself" with its actions and its critics.

After an act of the PSOE, Ábalos has referred to the criticisms that the PP is making public against the position of the Executive of Spain, which is calling on the Community of Madrid to "review its decisions" to harden the confinement in the region, given the expansion of the pandemic in the capital.

The minister has made a call to work "all together" against the coronavirus because the situation that Spain is going through, "and especially the Community of Madrid, demands that we concentrate all possible efforts in the fight against the virus."

"This is not the time for partisan debates," he added, "that put into question neither our constitutional nor institutional regime."

"It is up to the political parties to work with respect for what our constitutional symbols and the institutions represent, which represent the unity of the country."

Ábalos has joined the calls of other members of the Government calling on the Executive of Madrid to "review its measures" in order to safeguard the health of its citizens and also of the neighboring communities.

Yesterday, the Minister of Health appeared again in

to warn the regional Executive that it should take measures Without saying so expressly, Salvador Illa's words sounded like a severe warning against Ayuso: "There is a serious health risk for the citizens of Madrid and for those of neighboring communities, "he said.

And he called on the regional government to "review its decisions" and approve the confinement of the entire city of Madrid.

And today, Sunday, Illa has insisted, through social networks, on the same message addressed to the Madrid authorities to "follow the recommendations of scientists and health workers."

The Minister of Territorial Policy, Carolina Darias, has expressed herself in similar terms, who has asked that the regional government "stand alongside science and health technicians."

In a message on Twitter, Darias insisted that the "Government of Spain is willing to help" because the battle against the virus "is epidemiological, not ideological."

Darias responded in this way to the Madrid vice president, Ignacio Aguado, who has asked to continue with the meetings between the regional executive and the central government to agree on joint measures: "A political ceasefire is urgently needed," Aguado wrote on his official Twitter account.

Shuffled options

Sources from the Government of Spain have confirmed to

that "the possibility of" taking health control "of the Community of Madrid is" on the table "if Ayuso does not rectify.

The same sources trust that the regional Executive will agree in the next few hours to review its actions and tighten the mobility restriction measures to stop the expansion of Covid-19 in the community.

Moncloa is considering several possibilities for this takeover.

The first is to apply the

, which empowers the Government to approve and execute "special intervention measures in public health matters" that "are necessary for urgent or necessary health reasons or in the face of extraordinary circumstances that represent obvious risk. to health".

Moncloa

also does not rule out declaring the state of alarm again only in Madrid, as confirmed to this newspaper by the Executive.

In this case, Pedro Sánchez would have more and more effective powers, without the need for judicial authorization to limit mobility.

But it would also have a serious drawback: in 15 days, Congress should ratify the extension of the state of alarm, as it already happened in March and April every two weeks, when the Government finally had to accelerate the de-escalation to May 21, unable to articulate a parliamentary majority to keep this constitutional mechanism active.

The Community of Madrid knows that the Government has these legal powers to take away the powers of Health.

And the Minister of Health is deploying maximum pressure to rectify and confine the entire city and those municipalities that concentrate more than 500 positive cases of coronavirus per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days.

Finally, the decree that was called the

, approved in June, also provides that the Ministry of Health can take the measures "strictly necessary" in "situations of urgent need", such as those that may be occurring in Madrid, now European epicenter of the pandemic.

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