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Politics.The autonomies, in the face of Illa's inaction: "Minister, the later in deciding, the more infections and deaths there will be"
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Drums of war on the battlefield of "co-governance".
The castling of the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, who refused on Wednesday to approve new restrictions to contain the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, has revolted most of the autonomous communities. Not in vain, the vast majority demanded the advance curfew at 8:00 p.m. -even at 6:00 p.m.- or more tools to deal with the virus at a time when days are counted by
r records of infections and accumulated incidence The rebellion of the regions against Illa's inaction resulted in different measures to transcend the decree of the
state of alarm
without transferring it legally, as it did
Castile and Leon
last week unilaterally.
Precisely, this autonomy and
Andalusia
They asked citizens this Thursday to
self-confine
at home from 8:00 p.m.
As if there was a national curfew.
Castilla la Mancha
demands that they avoid "any type of activity that is not essential" at all times.
Canary Islands
it will close on its own all non-essential economic activities on the islands of Lanzarote and La Graciosa from 6:00 p.m.
Use the municipal sides
Others, like
Galicia
and
Catalonia
They harshly criticized the minister for not allowing them to take more measures just because they did not have to go through the parliamentary trance of obtaining support for a new decree.
And the president of the
PP
,
Pablo Casado
, was "in favor" of the
home confinements
by "health areas". The vice president of the Junta de Castilla y León,
Francisco Igea
, and the Minister of Health,
Veronica Married
, asked the mayors of the municipalities in which massive screening is carried out to detect cases of
Covid-19
to make an appeal through municipal parties to request the
lockdown
volunteer of its population and the Andalusian Minister of Health,
Jesus Aguirre
, called on the Andalusians to confine themselves "voluntarily and in solidarity" from 8:00 p.m., which is the time at which he asked the minister to let them establish a curfew, as "spokesman" for the vast majority of regional governments. Illa only said that he would "study it," he said.
"As a counselor and as a doctor I tell them that at eight in the afternoon I am isolated at home," Aguirre warned.
"Let them stay home"
On the Board of
Castilla la Mancha
, the community that has presented the most restrictive measures, assure that their main recommendation to citizens is "to stay at home" and "to leave [it] only for the essentials: work, study and go to the doctor or do the shopping" .
In this way, there will be effects closer to those of home confinement.
"It is a semi-confinement", say the sources. The Catalan Minister of Health,
Alba Vergés
, criticized that "the minister-candidate fills his mouth with co-governance and does not provide all the tools to manage the epidemic well", after the "very majority" demand that the curfew be advanced at 20 hours, which she He did not ask, just as hard was the president of the Xunta,
Alberto Núñez Feijóo
, who advanced that "probably" in the coming days the restrictions in Galicia will be tightened after the "mistake" of not letting the communities extend the curfew, a decision for which the consequences are already being "paid," as reported
Efe
from Santiago de Compostela. With "surprise and frustration", he regretted that the Executive prevents the autonomies "from using the necessary tools to fight the pandemic."
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