At the meeting, Gorrotxategi handed the Lehendakari a document proposing to conclude an energy transformation agreement that would establish a public renewable energy company.
Elkarrekin Podemos-IU proposed the lehendakari, Inigo Urkulluargue for a series of agreements, such as the energy agreement to reduce electricity costs and income agreements to guarantee the purchasing power of wages.
Urkullu met this Tuesday with the spokesman of the Purple Coalition in the Basque Parliament, Watch Gorrotxategiinside of round of contacts Monday began analyzing the impact of the invasion of Ukraine on the economy.
At the meeting, Gorrotxategi handed Urkullu a document in which they made a series of proposals, such as reaching an energy transformation agreement that would public renewable energy company and it would seek to reduce electricity costs for industry, SMEs and households.
suggestions increase in corporate tax on energy and electricity 10% or, failing that, an extraordinary surcharge for electricity companies, negotiate a price agreement of 50 euros Mwh for electricity, 30 euros for gas and fuel at average prices for 2020.
In terms of energy, Elkarrekin also increases Podemos-IU ban on new housing projects that continue to rely on gas boilers and that promotions of “new houses that are 100% electrified” and with renewable energy installations for own consumption are mainly allowed.
Today I met the lehendakari.
I went to listen to him, but also to convey to him something that he is fully aware of.
In Euskadi we need an energy transition to make progress in sovereignty.– Watch Gorrotxategi (@MiGorrotxategi) Apr 5, 2022
In this line, it is also committed to: rehabilitation of the housing stock Euskadi, replace gas boilers with heat pumps and electrify all houses.
The other major pact proposed by the coalition is that of income, which would be adopted at the table of social dialogue, with a commitment to update salaries, “both in the public sector and for private agreements to maintain the power of the working class.
Elkarrekin Podemos-IU raised with the Lehendakari the transformation of the Basque Finance Institute into a “public bank” enabling “the economic development” of the Basque Country “on the basis of social interest” and the promotion of a direct aid fund for SMEs and a strategic investment plan, which would be financed with the remaining treasury of the Basque government of almost 1,900 million euros .
Within the social pact proposed by this group, expanding stock of public social rental housing to meet the needs of refugees, groups at risk or in a situation of exclusion, victims of sexist violence and other coexistence units with housing needs.
The Basque Government is also requested to: supplement pensions under 1,000 euros with an additional 250 euros, lower the minimum age to access RGIE from 23 to 18 years, increase the basic amount of this benefit and of the additional housing allowance.
Crisis
– Structural: energy, supplies, raw materials, food.
– Circumstances: salary, poverty, refugees.Solution: energy transition and democratic control of production, distribution and consumption + social shield. https://t.co/5pofnhIxfI
– Watch Gorrotxategi (@MiGorrotxategi) Apr 5, 2022
Source: EITB
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