Ribera rejects the "cosmetic" proposal of the PP to lower VAT on electricity and gas to 5%

MADRID, 7 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The third vice president of the Government and minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, has rejected the Popular Party's proposal to lower VAT for electricity and natural gas to 5%, since she has considered that it is a "cosmetic measure" that would be "insufficient" in the medium and long term.

In response in the plenary session of the Senate to a question from the senator for the Popular Party Javier Maroto, Ribera defended that this Government is committed to accompanying citizens in the current energy price crisis through the Budgets, the tax reduction in bills and "with the reinforcement" of the social bonus to the most vulnerable families.

Even so, he considered that this "is not enough" and that work must be done on "transforming the model" of energy, betting on electrification and efficiency.

In this sense, the minister regretted that in recent years this transformation has not gone at the "necessary pace", something that she did say has changed since the arrival of this Government, which has "fortunately accelerated it in a context of European accompaniment, even in very complex circumstances".

For his part, Maroto, who held out his hand to the Popular Party to vote in favor of this reduction in VAT on electricity bills and natural gas, made Ribera ugly because the electricity bill "takes sleep away from the Spanish, who they are tired of hearing about Ukraine as the sole cause of everything," he said.

In this way, the PP senator assured that there are two "different models for Spain": "The PP project, prepared to be an alternative now, based on solid proposals and with a style of confronting while respecting. The other model is of a ( Pedro) Sánchez more alone and weak than ever and lying more than ever.