The Government responds to Feijóo's accusation of authoritarianism that it is the EU that has established energy savings

Pilar Alegría affirms that the PP has lost "common sense" and believes that Ayuso has the "leading voice" and is the one who "sets the ideological line"

MADRID, 15 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of Education and spokesperson for the PSOE, Pilar Alegría, responds to Feijóo, faced with his accusations of authoritarianism against the Government, which is the European Union together with the President of the Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen, leader of the European PP, who have determined energy saving measures.

In an interview with Europa Press, the socialist leader considers that this accusation made by the president of the PP to the Executive, which he calls "authoritarian" due to the Royal Decree on Energy Saving Measures, "is far from that image of a moderate who wants to sell of himself".

In fact, and after the protests of the popular leadership against these saving measures, she is convinced that the PP "first lost the sense of State and now it is losing common sense." In line with this statement, he recalls that it is important to explain to citizens the situation in which Spain and Europe find themselves, after the outbreak of the war that occurred in February and Putin's "strategy" of "generating blackmail to the continent European using energy".

In this sense, it exposes the unity of the European continent against the blackmail of the Russian president and recalls that this unity has been led by, among others, Ursula von der Leyen, who is one of the leaders of the European People's Party. A situation, she continues, that has led Europe to adopt measures "negotiated, agreed, proposed together with the 27 countries of the European continent." Therefore, she considers that "there is a position of unity and commitment from the first moment with all the member countries of the EU".

However, he points out that "in the face of that unity and solidarity" in Spain there is a "cage of crickets" that is, he affirms, "the PP" where he considers that the "singing voice" is carried by the president of the community of Madrid. In his opinion, it is Isabel Díaz Ayuso who is marking the ideological line.

In fact, he assures that what they are verifying is that "Díaz Ayuso every two times three needs to occupy media headlines, and for this purpose anything is useful, from proposing those checks for families that receive an income of more than 150,000 euros, to expressing his recourse to this energy decree". "Anything will do," exclaims the Socialist Spokesperson.

However, Pilar Alegría considers that the Madrid president should be more focused on the management of the Community of Madrid where, she assures, she has closed the emergencies and is the region that invests the least in all of Spain in public education.

However, the Minister of Education expresses her hope that "beyond the exaggeration or interpretation" that the Madrid president makes of the decree on energy saving measures, she complies with it. In fact, she states that all the administrative buildings and also the merchants are complying. In any case, she warns: "if they are not met, we all know what happens."

A Royal Decree that the Government will take as such to Parliament, ruling out processing it as a bill in order to include modifications despite the criticism that it has also garnered among its own parliamentary partners.

Pilar Alegría also positively values ​​Germany's commitment to completing the Midcat gas pipeline to relieve Europe of the lack of Russian gas. In this sense, she recalls that Spain received European solidarity during the worst moments of the pandemic and believes that "now it is up to Spain to play that main role of solidarity with other European countries, which are more dependent on Russian gas."

When asked about the French Government's silence regarding the German Chancellor's proposal, the Minister of Education believes that it will be the French Executive who "will have to respond", after insisting that the Spanish Government's response is "completely affirmative" because Spain can play a "fundamental role" in terms of solidarity with Europe.

At this point, remember that the European Commission itself values ​​it positively from the economic point of view (financing) and also from the deadlines. "These are decisions that do not have to be unilateral, but that the part of the European Commission feels involved," he has asserted and believes that its involvement can help with the deadlines for the works and financing.

However, he avoids answering whether Spain should criticize itself for the opposition of the third vice president and minister of Ecological Transition three years ago when it rejected this gas pipeline. Nor does it clarify whether the involvement of Germany and the European Commission will help with the conflict generated with Algiers as a result of Spain's change of position on Western Sahara.