The tone is extremely cautious, the measures imprecise and the timetable still vague. But Saturday evening, Pedro Sanchez pronounced the word: " desconfinamiento ", or the term he often prefers, " desescalada ". The president of the government prepared Spain to come out, " very gradually ", and from May, from one of the most severe confinements in the world.
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The Spanish leader wants to be so careful that to announce deconfinement he begins by talking about… an extension of the confinement. For him the country has done " the hardest ". However, " the advances are still insufficient, fragile ", so the executive wants the 47 million Spaniards to remain cloistered until May 9 inclusive. He will therefore ask Parliament to vote a new two-week extension of the state of emergency, which allows these measures to limit individual freedoms.
Before that, Spain will lift a restriction that no other European country applied with so much
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