The Government responds to the PP that frivolity is its response to the energy saving decree

The Government does not want to reveal whether or not it already has sufficient support to carry out the energy saving decree that Congress must validate on Thursday, but it trusts it, because it believes that citizens would not understand if nobody voted "no" , and to that he hopes to have the necessary votes.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
23 August 2022 Tuesday 06:31
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The Government responds to the PP that frivolity is its response to the energy saving decree

The Government does not want to reveal whether or not it already has sufficient support to carry out the energy saving decree that Congress must validate on Thursday, but it trusts it, because it believes that citizens would not understand if nobody voted "no" , and to that he hopes to have the necessary votes.

The only definitive thing that knows, until now, said the Government Spokesperson, Isabel Rodriguez, in the press conference after the Council of Ministers, is the "no" of the PP, and for this reason, she summons the popular leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to "explain on whose behalf it is", since the measures that will be approved with the decree range from an increase in scholarships by 400 euros, or subsidized or free transport for many families. That is why he also invited Feijóo to go to Atocha today and tell the workers who use the train that they will not have this aid, or tell a student that he will not see his scholarships.

All of this leads the government to respond to the PP, which yesterday said it would only vote in favor if "the frivolous measures it contains" are removed from the decree, which is not technically possible, recalled Isabel Rodríguez. "Frivolity is how the PP has responded," stressed the minister "that she has had 23 days to read the decree and that yesterday she seemed unaware of."

Rodríguez reminded Feijóo that with this decree, and with the contingency plan that was approved in September, there is a response to "Putin's threat that he wants to close gas to Europe", because we are facing a war, in which Putin is "using energy policy as one more weapon".

In addition, the Minister Spokesperson reminded the PP, the Government is fulfilling its commitments to Europe, and even the President of the Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, "who is from the European People's Party" has congratulated the PP's measures, said Rodríguez.

The commitment is to reduce energy consumption by 7%, and according to the data available to the Government, with the decree approved on August 1, energy consumption has already been reduced by 9.5%. In addition, with these measures, he warned Feijóo, the Government is guaranteeing that the savings "do not come from the industries."

The Government already considers the PP lost, and its negative vote has not caught it by surprise, given that it has always maintained an "obstructionist and denialist" position, which is why it addresses the rest of the groups, "with which we have been trying to connect " to support the decree. "Nothing else would be understood. Citizens would not understand that it was said no," said the Minister Spokesperson, who stressed that "the Spaniards have surpassed the PP in responsibility."

On whether the Government will call before approving the next decree, scheduled for September, with the contingency plan, so that it does not happen as with the energy saving one, which was criticized by all the groups for not having been consulted, Minister Isabel Rodríguez He assured that the Government maintains permanent contacts with the parliamentary groups and with the Autonomous Communities.

As an example of this, Rodríguez assured that a few days before the energy saving decree was approved, the President of the Government met with three presidents of the PP, those of Andalusia, Galicia, and Castilla y León, and Sánchez transferred the content of the decree to them and the measures to be taken.

What the Government is clear about is that some of the measures that the PP has proposed, such as extending the life of nuclear power plants, are not included in the Executive's plans. "If it's going back to nuclear power, it's not even at the beginning of the last century," said Rodríguez, for whom climate change must be combated "with different measures, not with the policies of the past that Feijóo embraces," he assured, without having Keep in mind that the European Union has declared nuclear energy a green energy, and that many European countries, from Germany to France, are opting for nuclear power.