The PP supports Brussels intervening in the electricity market but does not believe that Sánchez is right with the Iberian exception

He criticizes Yolanda Díaz for putting "good and bad labels" when an income pact between employers and unions is being negotiated

MADRID, 30 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The economic deputy secretary of the PP, Juan Bravo, has supported this Tuesday that the European Commission has announced that the electricity market will intervene to contain prices, although he has defended that he does not believe that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, is being right. and its commitment to the Iberian exception.

"What the current situation requires is not just a gas cap, but a set of measures that will somehow contain this situation and provide a response in the short, medium and long term," Bravo commented when asked if he shares, as The Government says that the announcement by the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, supports the Iberian exception.

Bravo has maintained that the PP has been betting for "months" on "changing the pricing system" because it was producing "excessive growth" in the bill, which had repercussions on the citizen. According to him, what Von der Leyen announced yesterday was this "rethinking of pricing."

"It is true that a part can come from the gas cap, but if someone analyzes the consequences that the Iberian exception is having, it means that we are financing France with more than 400 million euros and, if they come close to the electricity bill They will see that they are also paying that gas compensation," he added.

The PP spokesman has acknowledged that these measures should have been considered earlier, and not in a "limit situation" as is happening now due to the consequences of the war started by Vladimir Putin's Russia. "This pricing system was designed at one point with the aim of promoting renewable energy, but I think we all agree that at this time the situation is completely different," he argued.

"That is why we asked that defense not only be the Iberian exception, this gas issue, but a rethinking of everything that is price setting," he insisted.

Bravo has demanded the Sánchez Executive to bet on the path marked out by Europe and to prioritize "co-governance" with the autonomous communities, instead of imposing its measures. In addition, he has demanded data on the average energy consumption of the last five years, as well as the technical and legal documents that accompany the royal decree on energy saving.

As the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, did yesterday, the deputy economic secretary has insisted on the need to bet on nuclear energy, which provides 20% of the energy consumed in Spain.

In his opinion, the life of the plants should be lengthened by imitating what other countries are doing and avoiding "demonizing" nuclear power. "Bringing ideologies to radicalism can only create problems," she said, referring to the third vice president, Teresa Ribera.

Bravo has also criticized the second vice president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, for putting "good and bad labels" when an income pact between employers and unions is being negotiated. "If you want to ask businessmen for an effort, perhaps the first one that has to make the effort is the Government through tax cuts and deflation", she has indicated.