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The leader of the opposition, Pablo Casado, will support the Government The president of the Popular Party (PP) and opposition leader, Pablo Casado, appeared before the media minutes after Sánchez to reaffirm his support for the Executive during the state of alarm. The PP will support the Government during the outbreak, yes, but it retains the card of "claiming responsibilities" once the pandemic subsides. This has been stated by Casado, who criticizes the executive's lukewarmness during the early stages of the coronavirus. "We already warned yesterday [Thursday] that the proposals of the Council of Ministers were insufficient , [...] what was then a necessity this morning has been an outcry," he indicated in reference to the precautionary measures by the regional governments.
On the other hand, the leader of the PP has conveyed that several negligences have been committed by the central government during the week, although "there will be time to claim responsibility" when the situation is under control. For now, "it is time to support extraordinary measures." Madrid, main focus of infections in all of Spain In Madrid, zoos and amusement parks have C Level Contact List been closed since this Friday. Even so, the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, assumed in an interview with Onda Madrid that "more severe measures" would have to be adopted to avoid crowds of people. For this reason, Almeida announced the provisional suspension of authorizations for terraces, and transferred the recommendation to close bars . He did it on an Antena 3 program .
Afterwards, the Community took up the baton and decreed the closure of hospitality establishments starting this weekend. Read more: What you should buy to spend a quarantine at home due to the coronavirus The councilor's considerations came the same day that the Community Health Minister, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, predicted on esRadio a rebound in cases in the region. This same Friday, official data confirmed that infections continued to grow without ceasing, which implied that the situation is "very worrying" for the Madrid politician. This Wednesday, the Italian Government decreed the same . Belgium did the same this Friday , and Portugal has also decreed its state of alert. Contingency measures in other autonomous communities The measure comes after several autonomous communities have declared states of health emergency. The Basque Country has been the latest case. It has announced a state of health emergency, invoking a 2017 regulation that allows it to apply confinements to the population.