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The President of the Government attends the Chamber tomorrow to explain the situation of the pandemic in Spain and its economic derivatives as well as the progress of the vaccination plan and all this in the perspective of the end of the state of alarm on May 9.

Pedro Sánchez will face a very majority block of parliamentary groups that will demand an alternative that allows the territories to adopt the appropriate measures to face the pandemic without having to resort to the constitutional exception and without being left to the different discretion of the courts of Justice.

This position is widely shared by parliamentary forces, including those who voted in favor of all the extensions of the first state of alarm and the activation of the second, which is now ending, for a period of six months.

More Country, Bildu, Compromís, PdeCat, Vox, PP, Ciudadanos, ERC ..., the list of those who will demand a plan B from the Government has grown considerably.

The majority of parliamentary spokesmen have expressed their surprise at the fact that one month after the end of the state of alarm, the President of the Government "now ventures" to rule out an extension of the same but does not offer any alternative to avoid "chaos" the day after.

A good number of forces believe that it would be possible to organize a legal plan that comes into force as of May 10 and they add that, if the Government is designing it, it should make it explicit as soon as possible so that the CCAA and political groups could make their contributions to the same so that it was endorsed by a broad consensus.

All are aware that with the law in hand it is possible to set the alarm by territories so that the regional presidents could request, if necessary, the decree of a state of alarm only for their community.

However, they believe that the reasonable thing to avoid again the confusion of the citizenship and the difficulties that for many economic sectors would suppose to draw a map dotted with restricted islands, is to establish an "alternative legal umbrella" to the constitutional exception.

In this sense, the groups align themselves with the convenience, expressed by the State Council, that the Executive proceed to reinforce, develop and specify the organic law of Special Public Health Measures so that it offers the appropriate framework of action in the absence of state of alarm.

The groups are already very upset by the opacity of the Government not only in relation to what will happen in a month when the state of alarm subsides, but also because of the lack of transparency regarding the economic recovery plan that the Council of Ministers is already discussing. and the reforms it plans to carry out.

Compromís considers that "the most reasonable thing" would be to immediately convene a Conference of Presidents to assess the situation after Holy Week and draw up a common plan solid enough to avoid having courts overturn the restrictive measures taken by the communities based on the situation of their territories.

Vox insists on rejecting an extension of the state of alarm considering that the Government "cannot protect citizens as if they were small children."

"We are against the state of alarm," insists Iván Espinosa de los Monteros for whom "Spain cannot stop despite the fact that it is much more comfortable for politicians to have citizens locked up at home."

For both Vox and the PP it would be "inconceivable" a new extension of the state of alarm due to the fact that the Government has refused to promote legal reforms.

For Bildu, the end of the state of alarm generates "great concern".

The national training, as explained by its spokesperson Mertxe Aizpurúa, calls for a "legal umbrella so that the CCAA can adopt the necessary measures to tackle the pandemic."

"Tomorrow", Aizpurúa has warned, "we will ask Sánchez: a legal alternative agreed with the CCAA and the groups in Congress."

In the event that the president rejects this solution, in Bildu's opinion, he would be "obliged" to extend the state of alarm.

However, for the Abertzale group "this should be the last option."

Bildu will demand tomorrow that all the economic measures associated with the alarm remain in force even if it declines.

More Country for its part declares itself "astonished" because Sánchez appears tomorrow and "no one knows what he is going to say and what is going to be discussed."

His spokesman, Íñigo Errejón, is also committed to Sánchez bringing to the Chamber an alternative to the state of alarm.

Más País supported all states of alarm but now prefers that the Executive "sponsor an alternative agreement with all the Autonomous Communities."

The PP, for its part, urges Sánchez to stop governing in a situation as delicate as the current one "based only on his electoral interest and not on his responsibilities."

The popular insist that the Spanish are mired in "uncertainty and chaos", a situation that will worsen, they warn, after May 9 and with respect to which the Government "has done nothing."

The PP now points out the responsibility of the Executive and also that of all the groups that decided at the time to reject taking into account the initiative that proposed developing organic and ordinary laws to supply the state of alarm.

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