The vote on the energy decree highlights the lack of dialogue between the Government and the PP

Again, the Government of coalition reaches the Congress with the supports not closed in a capital vote. On Thursday, the deputies have to validate or repeal the decree law that includes: measures to save energy (a requirement from Brussels), aid to students Y to commuter and mid-distance users, and the extension of the 450 million direct euros for taxi and truck drivers. The royal decree law has already been in force since August 2 but, if the Executive did not achieve a majority of ‘yes’, the measures would decline and it would have to extract some initiatives from the text or retouch it before taking it back to the Lower House to another vote. PSOE and United We can only have between the two 155 of the 350 seats.

“I summon the PP, between now and Thursday, Mr. [Alberto Núñez] feijooto go to the Atocha Cercanías station […] and talk to that worker who is returning from his job and tell him that, if it were up to him, he would not have free public transport in the coming months […] Approach that student who is preparing for the start of the course and tell him that, if it were up to him, neither a scholarship nor a free subscription. This is what we are talking about,” the minister spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, cried out on Tuesday. “How much demagoguery!”, Edmund complained Balspokesman for citizens. The orange party announced in the morning to Rafael Simancas, Secretary of State for Relations with the Courts, that he will vote ‘no’. Not even the promise that it could be processed as a bill (and thus amended later) convinced Bal. “You help them get it out and then they extend the deadlines and they don’t change anything or they end up negotiating it with their investiture partners. They have already done it other times,” he denounced.

In the ‘no’ is also the PP, which has complained that some measures, such as the ceiling on air conditioning and heating, are “frivolous” (although days before Feijóo did not see them that way) and the lack of negotiating will of the Government. This lack of communication between Moncloa and the main opposition party has been a constant during this legislature, which began in January 2020 and was shaken three months later by the covid-19 pandemic. Neither with the state of alarm nor when the war in Ukraine broke out, and special packages were approved to alleviate the consequences of the conflict, have there been specific contacts between the head of the Executive and the leader of the opposition. happened with Paul Married Y now it is repeated with Feijóo. Moncloa was about to suffer a historic defeat when the new labor reform arrived without the support tied to Congress last February. In the end, Pedro Sánchez achieved validation, but due to an error by a PP deputy, who made a mistake when pressing the button.

The coalition government reaches another capital vote in Congress without the assured support

The Executive maintained a distant relationship with Pablo’s PP Married and now, despite the relief, also with that of Feijóo. If two years ago the popular ones were upset for not being aware of the most serious decisions about the pandemic and those that affected the Crown (the departure of Juan Carlos I from Spain), now that resentment has already occurred with the change in the Executive’s position on Western Sahara, the commitments made with the US within the framework of NATO and the votes on the two packages to alleviate the effects of the conflict launched by Russia (the popular voted against the first, abstained in the second).

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In this latest episode, the Government rthrow away the criticism because he assures that, after the agreement in Brussels on July 26 (in which Spain undertook to reduce energy consumption by 7%), he called a meeting the next day with the parliamentary speakers (in many cases it was the deputies of the Ecological Transition Commission) and, 24 hours later, a videoconference with the councilors of the branch of the communities in which he reported on the savings plan.

Parliamentary sources and those of the regional governments of different parties consulted by this newspaper affirm, however, that in neither of the two meetings were the measures affecting buildings administrative, commercial and cultural spacesand stations, nor was it announced that the Council of Ministers would approve a royal decree law with “obligations” on August 1.

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