The Government to the leader of the PP: "Go to Atocha or Sants and tell the workers that, if it were for Feijóo, neither a scholarship nor a transport pass"

 The Government to the leader of the PP: "Go to Atocha or Sants and tell the workers that, if it were for Feijóo, neither a scholarship nor a transport pass"

The Executive doubles the pressure on the popular and accuses them of "laziness" and "frivolous" two days after the vote on the validation of the energy decree

The Government does not let go of the dam and has put on the table all the contradictions of the PP regarding the response to the consequences of the war in Ukraine. The resistance of the main opposition party to facilitate the validation of the royal energy decree in the extraordinary plenary session on Thursday in Congress threatens to turn against Alberto Núñez Feijóo.The decree is not limited to energy savings in administrative buildings and commercial spaces with cooling above 27º in summer, with exceptions, and heating above 19º in winter, or turning off shop windows after ten o'clock at night, that the general coordinator of the PP, Elías Bendodo, called "frivolous" on Monday. The measures that it includes are very broad and range from a supplement of up to 400 euros until December for students over 16 years of age, free up to 100% of Renfe commuter, rodalies and medium-distance passes from September 1 to December 31 and a package of 450 million euros in direct aid to freight and passenger transport companies (1,250 euros per truck, 950 per bus, 500 per van and 300 in the case of taxis, VTC and ambulances). “I summon Mr. Feijóo to go right now to the Atocha Cercanías station, to Sants or to Valencia and talk to the workers and tell them that, if it were up to him, he would not have free public transport. That if it were for Feijóo, neither a scholarship nor a transport pass ”, charged the Government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, after the first Council of Ministers of a markedly electoral course with regional and municipal governments in May and the general ones at the end of 2023.

La Moncloa has concluded that the PP has already established its position and will vote against the decree.A decision that Feijóo would find it very difficult to justify if the decree lapses. The blow would be very hard for the Government, but in the PSOE and United We Can they understand that the wear and tear would be very high for the detractors of the package of economic and social measures. “The decree is not an occurrence of the Government, it is a requirement of the EU. We expected something more from the main opposition party, it shows their ignorance and apathy”, Rodríguez has attacked. The Deputy Secretary of Economy of the PP, Juan Bravo, has in turn demanded dialogue from the Government. “If you want to make the best decisions, it seems logical to do it together, that is what other countries have done. If the Government has a commitment to Brussels, the next step would be to talk to the communities,

While the Government strives in discreet contacts with the rest of the parties, with special care to the partners of the investiture, to tie up some votes that are not guaranteed, La Moncloa has placed all the targets on Feijóo, whom they accuse of practicing the same “destructive and negationist” opposition as Pablo Casado. The implicit message, addressed to moderate voters, is that Feijóo's profile as manager and statesman would not differ from that of his predecessor in Genoa. "If Feijoo votes no to this decree, he will have to explain to us who he is with, why he does not agree with his European partners or with the European Commission," stressed the spokeswoman for the Executive, who has delved into the very different position of the PP against the recognition of the president of the European Commission,the conservative Ursula von der Leyen, to the measures promoted by the Executive. “Across the EU, smart ways to save energy are being introduced. Slightly higher temperatures for air conditioning, for example, give impressive results. It is good that Member States like Spain, the Czech Republic and Slovenia include such measures in their plans. Together, we save energy for a safe winter”, valued Von der Leyen on August 17.