Interview Mikel Otero on Radio Euskadi June 22, 2022

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Regarding the anti-crisis package that the Spanish government is planning to renew, EH Bildu’s parliamentarian has indicated that they “have given the government a chance and in order not to cause disappointment, what it needs to do is take decisive action, go there let’s go”.

Mikel Otero, a Basque parliamentarian from EH Bildu, has indicated that the measure announced by Pedro Sánchez to reduce the VAT on electricity from 10% to 5% “is a palliative measure, which will produce palliative results”. For example, he explained that as long as the current pricing system remains in place, “as long as the gas continues to rise, it will determine the bulk of the bill.”

In an interview on Radio Euskadi’s ‘Boulevard’ program, Otero added that “a lower VAT will reduce a very small percentage, but we will continue to pay more than 150 euros per MW/h, when it was 50 euros 3-4 years ago. or 60 euros”.

Regarding the anti-crisis decree that the Spanish government plans to adopt this Saturday, the EH Bildu parliamentarian said that first of all they will “see what the specific measures are, and we will analyze them, especially the energy measures “In any case, as we announced”, and as can be seen “in the reliable trajectory of recent years, we have given the government a chance, and in order not to cause disappointment, it must take bold measures. And there we go shooting.”

The bold moves, Otero says, are two: one is to change the pricing system, which relies on the EU, because it’s “a marginalist system, the most expensive energy increases everything”, so that generates those “renewables”. be paid at the price of gas.” “It’s a system that is doomed to extinction,” he announced.

The other, the “heavenly profits of the big energy companies. It is unacceptable that the energy companies with record prices are making record profits, it is necessary to intervene, to reclaim part of those huge profits through taxes, in order to be able to recover them.” give in invoice discount, or directly into the pockets of the consumer”.

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