The Government is not opposed to processing the energy decree as a bill but prefers its validation

MADRID, 24 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez, stated this Wednesday that the Government "has no problem" with the possibility that the energy saving decree, which will be voted on tomorrow in the plenary session of Congress, be processed as bill, which would allow it to be modified via amendments, but it has made it clear that it prefers its validation so as not to generate uncertainty among citizens.

"The desirable thing would be not to subject citizens to a scenario of uncertainty and that tomorrow the decree can be validated, but obviously there is a parliamentary procedure that is possible and, therefore, that is what the channels and the PP are, rather than saying that no, it should be open to that possibility", stressed the minister, who recalled that the energy saving measures would continue to be applied regardless of whether they can be processed as a bill.

Sánchez, in statements to TVE collected by Europa Press, has assured that the Government is working "every second and every minute" to achieve the necessary political support to allow this decree to be carried out.

"We are not going to give up the effort to convince all the political forces, especially the PP, that from the first day and almost without looking at the content of this Royal Decree-Law, said that it was not going to support it, placing itself outside the needs of this country", he underlined.

In this sense, he has urged the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to explain why his party is going to vote against measures that benefit all citizens and that are agreed with the European Union.

"If you vote against these measures, I remind the PP that you are not voting against the government, but against the interests of the Spanish people, who are having a very bad time in a context in which six months have passed since the beginning of of the war in Ukraine", the minister pointed out.

Sánchez has appealed to the responsibility of the PP to support this rule and has urged him to demonstrate "his sense of State" and "not make excuses for being a bad payer" to maintain his "denier and obstructionist" attitude towards the Government.

"Mr. Feijóo, who wants to present himself to us as a leader of state, is not up to the task. Spain is great for him. I ask him for that minimum responsibility and not to make excuses," he added.