Since this Sunday, forty-six million Spaniards have been confined to their homes. The proclamation of the state of emergency by an extraordinary Council of Ministers on Saturday, which came into force the same evening when it was published in the Official Journal, leaves some exceptions to leave your home: go to your work station and come back , buy food, medicine or basic necessities, go to the emergency room or doctor, take care of a dependent person, go to the bank or respond to a situation of force majeure.
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The government becomes by this decree "the competent authority over the entire territory" , as explained by the head of the executive, Pedro Sanchez, at a remote press conference held on Saturday evening. This state of alert - one of the two varieties equivalent to the state of emergency provided for by the Spanish Constitution, the other, more strict, being the state of emergency - supposes de facto a temporary recentralisation of a Spain where the
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