Feijóo asks Sánchez to sit down to negotiate new energy measures after voting no to the decree

The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, proposes to the President of the Government to sit down to negotiate new energy policy measures, after the PP has decided to vote no to the first package of initiatives in the decree that Congress validates today.

From Galicia, Feijóo has criticized this Thursday the measures adopted by the Executive although Brussels has congratulated Spain for adopting them.

“Faced with this improvisation and this opacity, we propose to the Government that we sit down to talk not only about frivolous issues such as taking off a tie and telling a merchant to turn off his window at ten at night even though the store is open, but about safety measures. energy policy”, affirmed the popular president in declarations to the journalists.

“Let's talk about how we can improve our energy production,

Feijóo makes this move after deciding that the PP frontally opposes the energy decree, a rule that contains measures to contain the use of air conditioning that have been celebrated by the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, belonging to the family of the PP in Europe, and after he himself raised this summer the need to adopt energy saving plans.

The popular leader has been dragged into a frontal rejection of the decree by the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, according to some popular leaders, after the Madrid baroness led the opposition to the plan in advance, announcing an appeal of unconstitutionality in her against.

However, Feijóo's movement has no signs of going ahead, at least in the short term, because the relationship between the Government and the PP is going through one of its worst moments after the clash over the Judiciary last week.

Official PP sources rule out that the popular leader is going to call Sánchez, arguing that it is up to the president to have the initiative because he is the one who governs.

In La Moncloa they consider instead that it is Feijóo who has to make a move after his offer.

The political course starts with a problem of lack of communication between the Government and the PP.

“We are optimistic and we believe that today we will be able to get Parliament to validate the three decree laws once again and definitively approve the three laws”, declared the Spanish Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Historical Memory, Félix Bolaños, during a visit to Paris, reports

“When the Government wins the votes in Congress, the citizens win”, proclaimed Bolaños in a message in the gardens of the Residence of the Spanish embassy.

The minister had traveled to the French capital to participate in the acts of homage to the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Paris at the end of World War II.

In Paris, Bolaños directed the criticism at Feijóo.

“The energy saving plan”, he stated, “contains common sense measures, in line with those that have been approved in France or Germany, and in line with those that the European Commission is requesting”.

And he asked himself: "How is it possible that Spain does not have an opposition that is European, that is reasonable, that is not absolutely always in the no?"

In France some saving measures have already been adopted, but the Government must present a definitive plan in September.

The PP's French sister party, The Republicans, have collapsed in recent elections and are no longer a force of alternation: the two main opposition parties, Marine Le Pen's extreme right and Jean-Luc's anti-capitalist, eurosceptic left Mélenchon, pose a frontal opposition to the initiatives of the centrist president, Emmanuel Macron.