01/09/2021 11:10
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 01/09/2021 12:20 PM
"On the coast, commercial closings are being considered at one in the morning," anticipated this Saturday morning the mayor of Pinamar, Martín Yeza, who also assured that
the decision finally made by the Government
regarding the possibility of establishing restrictions on circulation in the face of the advance of the coronavirus "
generated a lot of doubts
"
The communal head of Together for Change admitted that "it is undeniable that the health situation is delicate", but also assured that in his opinion it is also a priority to guarantee the summer season for tourism.
"We must keep an eye on the growth of cases but we must also take care of the trade," said the mayor of the seaside resort in statements to Let's Say Everything, on CNN Radio.
In addition, he warned that "if we prohibit, one of the escape valves may be the increase in secrecy."
"We are going to do everything possible so that the summer season continues," emphasized Yeza, who at the same time trusted that "for now it is not a hypothesis to close the season."
Pinamar was in the center of attention on the first day of 2021, when images emerged of a significant deployment of police officers at the intersection of Bunge and del Mar avenues, a regular meeting point in the city, to prevent crowds and that people hit the beach en masse on New Year's Eve.
Martín Yeza, mayor of Pinamar, on Valeria del Mar beach. Photo: Fernando Orden / Special Envoy
Later, videos of new police operations with quadricycles on the sand were also seen to disperse groups of young people gathered by the sea without keeping their distance or respecting the most basic points of sanitary protocols, such as the use of chinstraps,
Yeza considered that "there is a media concern to always show the same images on the coast" and pointed out that those that are seen of the city of which he is mayor "are always in the same place."
"And it is very difficult to act without violating constitutional guarantees," he considered.
An "after beach" party in a Pinamar parador: Mayor Yeza is concerned about clandestine parties and therefore rejects extreme restrictions on trade (Photo: Fernando de la Orden)
Given the repercussions that some agglomerations acquired in public spaces in his city, Yeza raised other risks.
"It worries me more that people get together in a house than they get together on the beach. We don't want there to be clandestine parties and we have already closed more than 30," he explained.
Regarding the possibility of restricting circulation between 11pm and 6am that the national government considered until Friday, to finally leave the application of this type of limitations on the provincial authorities, Yeza reiterated that "to close night-time traffic in the province It is not a hypothesis that is being considered now; it would be a kind of state of siege. "
In addition, he questioned the Government because, in his opinion, "the decree that was not ultimately a decree generated a lot of doubts."
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