The investiture partners of Pedro Sánchez have complied and the energy saving decree was approved with 187 votes in favor, and the final support of the ERC included, 161 against and one abstention. Quite an achievement for the Government, which shows that despite the shocks and uncertainties, it takes its measures forward. Not only the energy saving decree. He also managed to pass the sexual freedom law, the bankruptcy law, or the autonomous decree. All received the green light without major problems, in the extraordinary plenary session held in Congress.
But if something was evident in the debate, it is the abyss between the Government and the PP, which this text has accentuated to the point that any kind of understanding seems impossible.
And that happens right at the beginning of a political course that will not be easy at all, because if the left and the right agree on something, it is that “the worst is yet to come”, because Putin’s blackmail could become, this winter , in a real hell for Europe.
But neither the Government, nor the PSOE, nor the PP did much yesterday to try to bridge these profound differences. And except for the parliamentary partners of Sánchez, from EH Bildu to United We Can, who came to tell the PSOE little less than, that with the PP, no water, not a single agreement, neither now nor in the future.
But no one had to tell the government. In the presentation of the decree, which was made by surprise by the Minister of Transport, Raquel Sánchez, and not by the third vice president, Teresa Ribera, she attacked the PP, whom she called “retrograde and denialist right”. A right, she lamented, that has nothing to do with “the European right that takes similar measures where it governs,” she said, reminding the popular that the president of the Commission, Úrsula von der Leyen, has endorsed and praised the measures of the Executive. The harangue ended by charging against the leader of the opposition, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, for being willing to leave citizens without transportation aid or scholarships. “Anything goes to try to overthrow the government.”
The spokeswoman for the Popular Group, Cuca Gamarra, reproached the Executive that all Spaniards are paying the most expensive energy because we sell it to France under the so-called Iberian exception. She called the Executive intransigent and asked him to “abandon ideology and sectarianism and think of the Spaniards”, who are suffering more than anyone else from the energy crisis. Although “we are not worse, what happens is that we have the worst government in Europe”.
