"This government does not forget who it governs for, we govern for the middle and working class, even if we are uncomfortable for some powers." After defending the new taxes on the profits of banks and large energy corporations - "If Botín and Galán protest, we are going in the right direction", he warned, Pedro Sánchez announced, in his press conference to balance the political course that now ends, that the Council of Ministers will approve next Monday a package of measures aimed at promoting efficiency and energy savings. These measures will affect economic activity and also domestic consumption.
Sánchez has underlined that these measures are in line with those that European countries are applying and has ensured that these measures have been agreed with the private sector, they have been communicated to the rest of the administrations and to the parliamentary groups.
The Chief Executive explained that the reduction in energy savings has led him to appear without a tie to alleviate the heat without the need for air conditioning. "I'm not wearing a tie," he stressed, willing to reopen an old debate promoted by the Government by the then Minister Miguel Sebastián, to promote simple measures to facilitate energy savings.
In addition, Sánchez has announced that he will propose to reform the electricity market in the European Union and also an intervention in the energy market to put a maximum limit on the price of CO2.
The President of the Government has been convinced that these two reforms will favor a reduction in inflation which, according to data released today, has already risen above 10%.
Sánchez has also announced that this Monday the Council of Ministers will approve a royal decree against forest fires whose objective will be to coordinate all the resources used in the fight against fires.
"As long as there is a progressive government, there will be a government in Madrid willing to dialogue with its counterpart in Catalonia," said Pedro Sánchez during the balance of the political course that he starred in this Friday from the Barceló room of the Moncloa palace. The head of the central Executive has thus come to link the ongoing dialogue and negotiation with the Generalitat de Catalunya with his permanence in office. And, in the same sense, to question the future of this dialogue in the event that the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, achieves his goal of completing a change in the political cycle in Spain after the general elections scheduled for December of next year.
Sánchez has highlighted, in this sense, the CEO barometer known the day before, before whose results he has defined it as "a very good survey". And not only because he consolidated the position of the PSC as the leading political force in Catalonia, but because he believed that "52% of Catalan society is against independence."
“This has everything to do with a Catalan society that is fed up with the conflict, that what it wants is to overcome that conflict, and what it wants is to meet again with the other part of Catalans and also with the rest of the brothers that they have in the Spain as a whole", highlighted the President of the Government. This barometer, he has added, "also says something about those political groups that are betting on dialogue", in reference to both the Socialists and Esquerra, also awarded by the poll. “And it is the will, little by little, gradually, progressively, to meet again, de-judicialize this crisis, return it to the territory of politics, find pacts and agreements that transcend one party and are transversal”, he pointed out.
Sánchez has thus celebrated the first agreements sealed by the dialogue table between the two governments that met again last Wednesday in Moncloa, after overcoming the latest turbulence registered by the espionage crisis against the independence movement that threatened to blow up the entire path traveled. The head of the Executive has thus underlined the agreements signed with the Generalitat the commitment to "respect for the democratic order and legal certainty", and therefore to abandon "any way of unilaterally imposing their positions". That is to say, "everything we experienced in 2017", he has pointed out in reference to the disconnection laws approved by Parliament or the fleeting unilateral declaration of independence. A political and social conflict with Catalonia that he has recalled that he himself inherited when he arrived at Moncloa in 2018, "and that fortunately, thanks to everyone's efforts, we are overcoming".
