Sánchez announces the extension of the anti-crisis plan that lowers the electricity bill and the price of gasoline

“The Government will extend the response plan to the war”, Pedro Sánchez announced this Wednesday, during his speech before the socialist deputies and senators gathered in Congress.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
01 June 2022 Wednesday 06:04
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Sánchez announces the extension of the anti-crisis plan that lowers the electricity bill and the price of gasoline

“The Government will extend the response plan to the war”, Pedro Sánchez announced this Wednesday, during his speech before the socialist deputies and senators gathered in Congress. “We are going to continue protecting the families and companies of our country while the effects of the war last”, highlighted the President of the Government, given the serious economic and energy consequences that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is causing.

Sánchez has highlighted that the measures of the Government's anti-crisis plan have allowed a 60% reduction in taxes on the electricity bill, they have reduced the price of a liter of gasoline or diesel by 20 cents, they have extended the coverage of the social bonus up to two million of households, and have protected the most disadvantaged groups by increasing the minimum vital income.

The Council of Ministers approved this anti-crisis plan on March 29, it entered into force the following day and was validated by Congress on April 28. But the measures contained in the decree had a temporary validity period of three months, so these aids expired on June 30. The intention now of the chief executive, given the forecast of a long war in Ukraine, is to extend the plan for at least another three months.

Moncloa sources have confirmed to La Vanguardia the forecast that the extension will be for a period of another three months, that is, until next September 30. The Executive will now analyze whether it considers making any adjustments or improvements to the anti-crisis plan. But substantially it will be the same, as they have warned, although it will have to be articulated through a new decree that will be approved by the Council of Ministers.

"Let's see if this time we have more luck and those who say they love Spain show it by loving the Spanish and approving measures that are good for the Spanish", Sánchez himself has ironized, before the Popular Party's rejection of the anti-crisis plan in the validation vote in Congress. The anti-crisis plan went ahead with an absolute majority of 176 votes, thanks to the support of the PNV and EH Bildu, although without the support of Esquerra or the PP, Vox and Ciudadanos.