she “rules” in the PP

The strategy is and will continue to be recurrent by the Government. Confront Alberto Núñez Feijóo using Isabel Díaz Ayuso as a weapon. Accusing him of “lack of leadership”, asking “who rules“In the PP, yes he or she, insisting that the party has changed its leader, but not its opposition model”obstructionist“, “denier” and “unsupportive”. Of course, in addition to redoubling the tone of criticism, the Executive also warns that it can go to the Constitutional Court if communities —such as Madrid— rebel against the energy plan that this August 10 enters in force in its two most controversial points: the regulation of temperature of commercial premises or hotels and the shutdown of shop windows and empty public buildings after 10 p.m.

The noise of the last week has not stopped as a result of the approval of the royal decree law 14/2022, on energy saving. With the opening of the Sectorial Conference on Energy, Tourism and Commerce last Monday, a chapter was closed, since the Government settled that there will be no modification in the text and that the measures therefore go ahead. But a new pulse begins, in which the Madrid president is once again in the lead, by announcing an appeal before the Constitutional Court, a battle that for the moment no other autonomynot even from the PP, has decided to give.

A response that seems to the Executive, at best, “sad”, in the words of the head of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños. “Work have the lawyers of the Community of Madrid to stand up the whole collection of lies that have been said and turn it into a document that does not make the president blush,” he said, in statements to the media during a visit to the high-speed rail works between Murcia and Almeria in the town of Vera. The minister stressed that in the Sectoral Conference on Monday, in which the third vice president, Teresa Ribera; the head of Industry, Reyes Maroto, and the Secretary of State for Energy, Sara Aagesen, in addition to the regional councilors and the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), could “disprove some lies that, in a rather crude way, had been installed in some speeches.” “The Spaniards deserve unity, rigor, level, that the decrees be read, that the truth be told,” said Bolaños, right-hand man of the president, Pedro Sánchez.

The head of the Presidency recalled that the Spanish plan has been “valued” by the European partners and is not one of the most “severe” or “restrictive”, adopted by other governments of the community club and that have been supported by the European People’s Party. He recalled that on July 21 Feijóo asked for an energy saving plan. Plan that “already exists” and It was approved by the Council of Ministers on August 1, claimed. “However, look where,” she told the journalists, “she who is in charge of the PP spoke [Ayuso] and completely disavowed Feijóo. That is why Mr Feijóo now has to choose between being with Europe, with European governments of different colors that support energy saving plans, or being in opposition obstructionistfrom no to everything, destructive, unsupportive and irresponsible”.

Merchants and hoteliers prepare to launch the energy saving plan https://t.co/5L40emlA45 pic.twitter.com/k4U3nHrQJA

– Europe Press TV (@europapress_tv) August 9, 2022

“Reasonable and sensible” position

Bolaños then went directly to the head of the PP: “Are you in a position to decide what the position of the PP is and to be hand in hand with Europe or you have to ask the boss in the PP?” The Executive wants to present a Feijóo almost like a puppet, a puppet of the Madrid president, lacking “leadership” (as the minister and number two of the PSOE María Jesús Montero affirmed the day before) and authority. That he is not capable of “putting order in his ranks” because in the end the hard wing that Ayuso represents wins.

That is his thesis and with which the Socialists will continue to hammer the Galician leader. For Bolaños, the question of “who’s in charge” in the main opposition party is relevant because Spain must be “united in the response” to Vladimir Putin’s threat to cut off the gas supply. The energy plan, he stressed, means saving on the electricity bill, but also “consume less”, promote a “more sustainable environment” and respond “united” against the Russian autocrat. The minister, as Sánchez did on Monday, called for “unity, responsibility and solidarity” from the PP.

The same line of argument was followed by the head of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta, a member of the president’s hard core. “In the PP they are changing leaders, but Ayuso is the boss. Before, it seems that they had one who was [Pablo] Married, now Feijóo, but who rules in the background is Ayuso”, said Iceta on RNEEurope Press reports. For the minister, the PP, instead of having “a common position within Spain” that is “reasonable and sensible”, from time to time it seems that “it is thrown into the bush dragged by whoever is really in charge”, Ayuso. Feijóo, in his opinion, “he is never where he is needed“And that, he predicted, will not come for free to the conservatives.

The Royal Post Office and the rest of the monuments will remain lit in Madrid at 10 p.m. as they are not affected by the decree https://t.co/t5Gz9GVM2a pic.twitter.com/i9FLPQDxrn

– Europe Press TV (@europapress_tv) August 9, 2022

Riverbank, in the BE, also pointed to Ayuso, but in another line. Warning that the Government can also go to the TC if an Administration lowers its arms and does not exercise its powers. The logical thing, from the entry into force of the temperature in the premises -27 ºC in refrigerated spaces, with exceptions, such as when it comes to light work, in which case the thermostat may be at 25 ºC, and 19 ºC in heated rooms in winter—and the turning off of shop windows and empty public buildings after 10 p.m., is that do not impose fines “quickly”.

In other words, it is normal for there to be a period of adaptation, of wide sleeves. But “if time passes and nothing happens here“, if a community does not act to guarantee compliance with the decree, there is the option of appeal, a “negative conflict of competences” if it is found that an autonomy does not apply the norm. “I think that any responsible government knows that the norms are for apply them and refusal will be avoided,” he maintained. But if there are no sanctions, the Organic Law of the Constitutional Court itself provides for the alleged that, when a competent Administration does not exercise its powers, it can be warned by the higher Administration.

And “if despite the warning jurisdiction is still not exercised, a conflict may be raised before the Constitutional Court”, although “there are other alternatives before the Contentious Courts, but it is something that legal services must assess”, indicated the head of Ecological Transition, for whom the collaboration of the communities in this decree is “capital“.

“They look for excuses because they are deniers”

The Government deployed this Tuesday a “line of action“Joint drawn up by Ribera, Iceta and Bolaños, charging against the PP, attempting to surround a Feijóo”dragged” for Ayuso, because “the mess she has caused him is good”, in the opinion of a member of the Cabinet.

Both the Community and the Madrid City Council made it very clear that they do their own reading of the decree. The two administrations, led by the PP, advanced this Tuesday that the buildings of their headquarters, the Casa de Correos in Puerta del Sol and the Palacio de Cibeles in the capital will continue to be illuminated beyond ten at night. “For cultural and tourist interest“, like other Assets of Cultural Interest in the region, said the regional vice president Enrique Osorioor because there is a restaurant on the roof of the Consistory that does not close at 10 p.m.

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“They look for excuses because they are deniers. José Luis Martínez-Almeida [el alcalde] and Isabel Díaz Ayuso go against what their boss, Feijóo, asked for. They disavow it. Ayuso dismounts Feijóo. Both call for a boycott, for a dangerous negationist rebellion and let’s think about how it has ended in other countries,” they point out from Ribera’s team, pointing to the example of the United States, the assault on the Capitol incited by Donald Trump.

Our emergency plan to reduce gas demand across the EU is now in force.

Several Member States have already taken valuable, voluntary measures towards our target:

Together, we aim to reduce gas usage by at least 15%.

Saving energy is vital to Europe’s energy security.#REPowerEU pic.twitter.com/Iy6b0O0g3O

– Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) August 9, 2022

The Executive celebrated while the accolade provided by the president of the European Commissionthe conservative Ursula von der Leyen, in a Twitter message on Tuesday afternoon: “Our emergency plan to reduce gas demand throughout the EU is already in force. Several Member States already have taken valuable voluntary action to achieve our goal: together, our goal is to reduce gas consumption by at least 15% [en España, por la excepción ibérica, será de un 7%]. Saving energy is vital for Europe’s energy security,” wrote the German leader on Twitter. For Moncloa, a sample of support for in the midst of the PP attacks.