The new plan extends the aid of the electric and thermal bonus so that more families benefit
Pedro Sánchez has subscribed to give a blow of effect every time he appears in Congress. This Thursday, in an intervention at his own request, he announced that the Council of Ministers will approve on Tuesday a mobilization of 3,000 million euros to “protect 40% of households from the rise in the price of electricity.” Some measures that provide for the creation of a new regulated rate (TUR) for neighborhood communities with centralized natural gas boilers, the reinforcement of the electricity social bonus and the improvement of the thermal social bonus. The proposal also served the president to confront the socialist anti-crisis recipes with which the PP applied during the governments of Mariano Rajoy and bring back to the forefront the “efforts” of the Executive to face a winter that is expected to be harsh due to the war in Ukraine.
That was the plan and he kept it that way during his more than two hours of intervention, reply and counter-reply in the lower house. He did not go off the script or to wink at Alberto Núñez Feijóo (who was not present in the chamber as he was not a deputy) about the negotiations for the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ). The Galician leader, with whom he will hold a face-to-face meeting next Tuesday in the Senate – set on the calendar since before the resignation of the president of the governing body of the judges, Carlos Lesmes – mentioned him directly to compare «his recipes» with those of Rajoy. “A return to the past,” he said.
In an attempt to dose the gunpowder for next Tuesday, Sánchez focused on charging against an opposition that he considers “denier” and “constantly prophesies disaster.” Although it has been precisely two disasters, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, that have marked the first coalition government. “We cannot choose the challenges we encounter, but we can choose the response we give to them,” said the president.
Already in the melee, the spokesperson for the popular parliamentary group, Cuca Gamarra, urged him to expel deputy Alberto Casero from his seat, after the Supreme Court asked Congress for a request to investigate rational indications of “alleged crimes of prevarication and embezzlement”. She also had words for the Madrid government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso: “We cannot accept that a few meters from where we are, the regional government is giving appointments for a colon checkup for more than a year.”
A sentence that ended up overshadowed by complaints from the PPy bench was answered by Gamarra, during his speaking time, alleging that Sánchez “was not here to give lessons” on corruption after the conviction of former presidents Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñán by the ERE In Andalucia. “Commit not to grant pardon to both,” snapped the popular leader.
Aid for depopulation
Each social measure approved by the coalition was one more argument in the debate for the president, especially the labor reform. So much so that he went so far as to ask the PP deputies to “recognize that they were wrong” when criticizing the Iberian cap on the price of gas. And if they were missing, he announced new ones. Sácnhez unveiled this Thursday the creation of aid for the creation and maintenance of indefinite contracts in Soria, Teruel and Cuenca, the three provinces most affected by depopulation.
The plenary session had already begun with tension after all the Vox deputies interrupted the president’s initial intervention by entering the hemicycle 50 seconds late, the time that Sánchez made the kings wait in his official car at the start of the National Holiday parade . The president stopped his speech until Abascal’s party bench took a seat with some parsimony.
At that time, the head of the Executive gave an account of the last European summit in Prague. He argued that the nuclear threat from Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot be “underestimated”, of whom he said that he is “disoriented”, but he clarified that we must continue to support “the attacked”, Ukraine, “against the aggressor”.
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