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The people’s paper ISSUE NO. 1861
4 - 10 March 2021
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PLANNED PROTESTS
THE Andalucian hospitality sector has planned demonstrations on Monday March 15 to demand their opening hours are extended ‘until half an hour before the cur‐ few’ and some much‐needed di‐ rect aid, the ‘two fundamental necessities to save the sector.’ Currently, Andalucia allows the businesses to open until 6.00pm. The president of the provincial as‐ sociation in Sevilla, Antonio Luque, pointed out other autonomous communities which open later, such as Madrid, which allows opening until 23.00; Cantabria and Extremadura, until 22.00; and Va‐ lencia, until 9.30pm. Luque said that with the warmer weather coming in the spring “it is essential that they (the government) understand that the public has to be on our terraces where they will be safer. “We continually see 400 com‐ plaints every weekend from the police. There is going to be much more security in our businesses than in the chaos that we are see‐ ing in parks and in tourist apart‐
DEMONSTRATIONS: Planned to take place on March 15.
ments, etc,” he stressed. Regarding the aid the sector has received a year since the pan‐ demic began, “the government has totally abandoned us, it has not given us a single euro, and the Andalucian Government has only given us €1,000 of aid. “We are the community in Spain that has received the least money and we need real, direct aid to come,” he explained.
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