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  • Coronavirus. Pedro Sánchez assumes support for his state of alarm for six months but will avoid defending it in Congress

The Government's claim to decree a state of alarm for more than six months, a period during which there would be no legal or parliamentary control over the restrictive measures adopted, and abdicate responsibility for them in each of the autonomous communities , has focused the face to face between Pedro Sánchez and the leader of the PP, Pablo Casado, the latter willing to assert the stripes of the opposition leader with which he adorned himself in the debate on the motion of censure.

Casado has summoned the president with a general question - "what is the government doing in the face of the new wave of the pandemic?" - and then blame him for the four lost months from July 5 to today.

According to Casado, the state of alarm that Sánchez claims goes beyond the constitutional framework.

A "cacicada" who gives him "so much shame" that he forces him not to go to the House to defend her.

The leader of the PP has asserted his proposal to arbitrate ordinary legislation so as not to have to resort to exceptionality and in the meantime raise a state of alarm of only two months that allows to save Christmas.

Sánchez has escaped ensuring that what he does is fight the virus with all constitutional weapons and has taken for granted that a good number of groups will bet on his six-month alarm.

However, the president has proposed that the Inter-territorial Health Council and not the Congress of Deputies decide within four months whether or not the state of alarm should be lifted.

Sánchez has proposed it as a plate of lentils, if you want, you can take them and if you don't leave them.

In short, "or that in four months, or six months until May 9."

In this way the president completes the circle of the new sui generis state of alarm that he intends to impose.

An extra long state of alarm without controls that should serve as an umbrella for each autonomy to impose the restrictive measures of fundamental rights - mainly mobility and assembly - that it deems necessary.

A state of alarm that raises doubts of constitutionality because it implies, to a large extent, leaving aside the principle of responsibility that according to the Magna Carta cannot be evaded by the Executive even in exceptional situations.

According to the state of alarm law, the competent authority is the Government, even if it delegates the implementation of the measures implemented to regional authorities.

Pedro Sánchez, as the Minister Spokesman María Jesús Montero did yesterday, has practically given enough support to take his initiative forward.

The PP parliamentary spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra, recalled the words of Sánchez himself when he defended that coming to Congress every 15 days to request authorization to extend the state of alarm was the most "healthy" and "democratic" and has accused the Executive of suffer from an "authoritarian pathology".

Gamarra presented Vice President Carmen Calvo with a choice: "Choose between the assault on the skies with Podemos or the rule of law and the separation of powers with the Popular Party."

And then the secretary general of the popular, Teodoro García Egea, in view of the resignation of functions that the President of the Government intends to do in relation to the state of alarm, has snapped: "Why do we want you? "

García Egea has also put on the table the fact that in the Interterritorial Health Council, the body that according to Sánchez must resolve the continuity or not of the state of alarm within four months, the overwhelming majority is in the hands of the Socialists.

And in that situation he has urged him to make the decision in Ferraz ..

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