The PP urges the Government to negotiate energy saving measures with the Autonomous Communities and not to impose them

MADRID, 23 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Deputy Secretary of Economy of the PP, Juan Bravo, has insisted this Tuesday that his formation will not support the energy saving decree in the vote on Thursday in Congress if the Government does not heed his request that the measures be negotiated with the communities autonomous and not imposed on them or on the private sector.

"In the energy part of the decree we cannot share the measures because they are an imposition, the measures were not transferred to us nor have the autonomous communities been listened to and, above all, a series of measures are imposed on the private sector, without compensation of any guy, without help, and we don't think it's the best time," he said in statements to TVE collected by Europa Press.

Bravo has stressed that, as things stand, with electricity rising by 35% today, "there is no need" for the Government to tell businessmen and the self-employed how they have to save, well, "by misfortune" they are already doing.

Thus, the PP considers that "all the effort" to reduce energy consumption should be charged to public administrations and reduce actions in the private sector to recommendations, "but without impositions and without such high penalties."

Bravo has insisted that energy saving measures must be agreed with the autonomous communities because, in some cases, they may be invading powers.

In this sense, he has stated that the PP has given freedom to the regions where it governs to appeal the energy saving decree before the Constitutional Court if they consider that their powers are invaded by this rule.

In any case, the PP Deputy Secretary of Economy believes that the Government will rely on its partners to carry out this decree in Thursday's plenary session in Congress.