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Coronavirus: An avalanche of CCAA is committed to modifying the state of alarm to advance the curfew
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Hours pass, infections grow, fear of a health collapse and a third bloody and runaway wave of the coronavirus increase.
With all these letters on the table, the list of autonomous communities of all kinds willing to demand that the Government at the meeting of the Interterritorial Health Council, scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday, also rethink and agree to review the decree of extension of the state of alarm, approved last November by the Congress of Deputies.
A review that would involve, in the first place, making the curfew margins more flexible so that the restriction of mobility can be imposed, wherever necessary, from 8:00 p.m. and even earlier.
Castilla y León has been the territory that has opened Pandora's box, deciding on its own the practically complete limitation of movements from eight in the afternoon.
The measure adopted by the president of the Board, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, since Saturday, has the endorsement of its jurists based on the wording of article 10 of the decree of extension for six months of the state of alarm approved by Parliament, but not thus with the agreement of the central government, which considers that the maximum range of restriction of the fundamental right of mobility cannot exceed from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.
The Government, however, has been cornered by the flood of autonomies that bet, such as Castilla y León, to have more room for maneuver to manage the advance of the pandemic in their territories and to start, for this, with the possibility of set early curfews to limit social interaction as much as possible.
Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid, Galicia, Murcia, the Basque Country, Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Cantabria, the Canary Islands and Andalusia have been added to the position of Castilla y León.
Others, such as the Valencian Community, do not regard it with bad eyes but prefer to wait for the negotiation that takes place tomorrow, Wednesday, while some more, as is the case of Aragon, have already decided in the last days to advance to the limit, that is at 10 pm, the beginning of the curfew.
The Executive, despite having quickly appealed to the Supreme Court the unilateral decision of Castilla y León, has also been modulating and redirecting its position.
To the firm rejection expressed by the Minister of Health and candidate for the PSC in the Catalan elections, Salvador Illa, nuances have been added that point to a much more flexible position, mainly because there are already a majority of the communities that advocate retouching the decree of state of alarm to have more tools to fight the pandemic.
The commitment to greater flexibility when establishing the curfew should not imply, in any case, that the start and end time of the same tends to be identical in all territories.
The autonomous governments, in their capacity as competent delegated authorities, and in view of the degree of incidence, number of infections, deaths and hospital occupancy that is registered in their region, would make the decision to advance or delay it in the same way as at present but moving with a greater time margin.
The Minister of Territorial Policy, Carolina Darias, yesterday justified the appeal against the advancement of the curfew imposed by Mañueco in her region, based on the fact that the prevailing legal framework is the one established in the state of alarm decree and there They establish the time limits that cannot exceed 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.
“We are talking about restrictions of rights and we have to be exquisite in the framework of the law and in its compliance.
The rule of law concerns us all, "he said in Onda Cero.
However, Darias left the door open to review this fork in view of the fact that the list of autonomous governments that demand it is increasing.
Likewise, Salvador Illa, who initially considered the restrictive possibilities of the CCAA sufficient, has been modulating his position.
In fact, if accepted, it would be the CCAA that would assume the unpopularity of putting the measure into practice, whereas if the Government categorically rejects it, the responsibility for an even greater increase in infections would fall on their shoulders.
Many of the territories have advanced in recent days at eight o'clock in the afternoon, and even earlier, the closure of non-essential activities - this is the case, for example, of Aragon where hotels and shops must close at 20.00 on a business day and at 6:00 p.m. on weekends;
or Andalusia, with closings at 6:00 p.m., or Valencia, with the closure of the hotel trade at 5:00 p.m.-, and in this sense they support the argument of the advance of curfew by pointing out that if there is no more activity than the essential, the movements of citizens must also be exclusively those justified by a major cause.
Yesterday, the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, bet in favor of his Castilian Leonese counterpart.
For Page, modifying the decree of the state of alarm to advance the curfew to 8:00 pm is an "acceptable" decision.
He himself has already transferred it to the Executive and will defend it in the Interterritorial Health.
Also the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres has expressed his favorable opinion and the same has been done by the Minister of Health of Cantabria.
The Balearic president, Francina Armengol, also plans to support this request, who already recommends the restriction of movements from 8:00 p.m.
Madrid will be another voice to add, although Isabel Díaz Ayuso has only established a curfew from 11:00 p.m.
The Madrid president, in her eternal war with the central government, maintains that if the latter "is going to continue without acting, the least it can do is not to bother."
The president of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, yesterday sent a letter to the president asking him to review the state of alarm to even contemplate selective home confinement.
The Minister of Health of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Alba Vergès, called it "unheard of" that the Government has decided to appeal the decision of Castilla y León and prevents the CCAA from deciding on mobility restrictions.
The Executive of the Basque Country for its part claims to have made a request in this regard up to three or four times;
the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno, predicts that the Government "has no other option" but to agree to this very majority demand, while the president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, even favorably sees a curfew at 6:00 p.m. hours as France has imposed.
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