The Government is not guaranteed support for the energy saving decree 48 hours before the vote in Congress next Thursday.
If the votes in favor of the ERC and PNV investiture partners are still unknown, and only those of United We Can are guaranteed, the votes against are clear, after the PP announced yesterday its rejection, which will be added to those of Vox and Citizens.
The PP believes, however, that there are acceptable measures - the decree in question has 83 pages and it includes everything from limiting temperatures in public spaces, to the program to reduce the cost of collective transport or specific aid to groups such as students – but the popular ones are not in the business of accepting the entire decree as good because some of the measures are considered simply and simply frivolous in the words of Elías Bendodo, the general coordinator of the PP.
Among these proposals, he pointed out "remove the tie, lower the air conditioning or heating one degree and turn off the windows." The tie is not in the decree, it was just a suggestion made by the president in a press conference, the temperature limitation is.
Bendodo stressed in a public appearance after the meeting of the party's steering committee chaired by Feijóo, the measures that they would support and are those that are aimed at guaranteeing industrial employment, given the rise in energy prices, or the protection of transportation by highway. The PP urged Pedro Sánchez, who today is holding a Council of Ministers, to modify the decree, something that is not legally possible.
For the PP, the Government must take serious measures because, it argues, "with ideological sectarianism energy is not saved." It proposes extending the useful life of nuclear power plants, as in other European countries, and betting on biogas or green hydrogen.
The PP's no to the savings decree widens the distance between the Government and the popular, which will not shorten the fact that in the same plenary session the PP supports the decree on the new contribution system for self-employed workers that will also be voted on in this plenary .
Quite the contrary, as soon as the confirmation of the popular no was known, the Government and PSOE came out in a storm against Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
The PSOE spokeswoman and Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, accused the leader of the PP of questioning European unity with his "denier and frontist" opposition, and recalled that the Commission chaired by the conservative Ursula von der Leyen endorses these proposals.
The government spokeswoman, Isabel Rodríguez concluded that "Spain is great" for Feijóo. "He said that he came here to make a different, mature policy and is showing insolvency, immaturity, cynicism and little sense of State."
