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“This is a matter that has been appreciated in conversations with the President of the Republic.” The sentence, on the possible return of the country to the state of emergency, was handed down by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa to Quick and it proves that the matter is on the agenda of the president and prime minister.
The weekly says that when António Costa said, in Brussels, to hope that the situation “does not have to reach the point where the President of the Republic has to declare a state of emergency again,” the matter had already been discussed. more than a conversation.
Neither is really enthusiastic about this possibility, they have vehemently rejected it, but the fact that the numbers have been trending upward for several weeks is cause for concern. On Friday, in Aljustrel, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa even put a red line: the day the dead reach several dozen a day. “That would be crossing the red line,” said the president.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa added that “nobody wants this situation” and that, for now, it is necessary “to see the effect of the new regulations in the coming weeks.” However, he said: “People have to think that if this begins to gallop, if there is a brutal worsening of the situation, which we do not want and we hope it will not happen, if what must be decided happens, it will be decided in progressive degrees of intervention . “
What the president understands by progressive degrees of intervention begins with the use of a mask on public roads in areas where there is a large crossing of people (as he has done for several months) and ends with the declaration of a state of emergency. In between are solutions that can be adopted such as a curfew between certain hours of the night, the confinement of certain regions or the closing of trade earlier.
The president has also warned of the possibility of adjusting the Christmas of the families, reducing the number of participants in the meetings. And the Prime Minister himself explained, in the PUBLIC interview, that his Christmas will be different. “In my family, we have also organized ourselves so that we can divide and be separated from each other. It is a small family, it is easier ”, he confessed.
On the same occasion, António Costa clarified that he will do everything possible to avoid the ban imposed on people who leave the municipality at Easter. “Well, if it has to be, it will be, but shouldn’t we do everything we can to avoid it? If we all play by the rules, we can handle this pandemic without having to take dramatic action, “he said.
Both the president and the prime minister understand that it is still time to change individual behavior, but they do not rule out the possibility of doing everything possible to overcome the pandemic. “I said, on October 5, that what is understood to be decided will be decided,” Marcelo recalled to the Quick.
