As mayor of Alcantarilla, the fifth municipality in the Region of Murcia, I consider that the de-escalation plan that the President of the Government has presented generates great uncertainty and will create insecurity in the population and the administrations that manage this situation.
If the surveillance and follow-up of the measures adopted up to now has supposed an extraordinary effort on the part of the services that provide their services in the municipalities, the lack of definition in the criteria of the measures proposed, I am very much afraid, will mean a new burden for the municipalities and a difficult interpretation of the measures that will hinder their compliance. On the other hand, doubts about the vision that the Government of Spain will have about the situation of each territory, and its ignorance of the real risks, as it has shown during all these weeks due to changes in its decisions, lead us to a enormous uncertainty about which territories will be in each phase, since we do not know how the Government will use the indicators that will mark the phases of de-escalation. We also do not know the cost that the City Councils will have to assume and whether we will have some type of clear action instructions and safety protocols to inform our population. Citizens are confused because they do not know when they will be able to do everything and because we do not know when the state of alarm will end. Alcantarilla is a municipality with a large number of small companies and shops and we are really concerned about its future, because the Government does not finish making economic and social aid effective so that these small business owners, shop owners, bars, etc., know with what means are available to initiate de-escalation. We need a serious and concrete schedule of actions, and solutions for all those families, which are many, that have all their members unemployed.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla