Ribera meets the parliamentary groups in the round of meetings for the emergency plan

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The Third Vice President of the Spanish Government and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Theresa Riveramet this Thursday with the spokespersons of all parliamentary groups to gather proposals to help Spain reduce its gas consumption with a view to designing the emergency plan which the government should send to Brussels.

Is round of conversations comes after the validation in Congress, last week, of the energy saving decreewhich will eventually be processed as an account for the inclusion of some changes claimed by the government partners.

The decision, the measures of which will be applied as a bill despite the processing, includes: the first package of energy-saving measures planned to comply with the voluntary reduction in gas consumption, given the risk of a supply freeze by Russia, as well as: aid to promote public transport such as the free services of Cercanías, Rodalíes and Media Distancia from September 1st to the end of the year.

So, the PP spokesperson in Congress, Cuca Gamarraannounced before the meeting that the parliamentary group will ask the third vice president, Teresa Ribera, that the measures included in the energy emergency plan be accompanied by a “report on the economic impact”.

Gamarra has argued that the measures include: “impositions” for the public sector, but “recommendations” for the private sector and that they are “discussed” with the sectors to avoid having an impact on production and economic activity.

It has also indicated that Spain must “maximize all its power generation capacities” and “all available technologies to ensure energy supply” under “economically and environmentally sustainable” conditions.

For his part, United we can Vice President Teresa Ribera has proposed introducing a domestic electricity bill that is progressive in nature and further penalizes high-consumption households, and the introduction of new green taxes on polluting vehicles such as yachts, private jets or high-capacity luxury cars.

Sources of the purple formation indicate that the electricity bill should be progressive based on the electricity consumption in houses “so that those who consume reasonably pay less and those who consume excessively pay more”. United We Can, of course, only applies this progressive model to the domestic account and does not consider the industrial or commercial sector.

Another of the measures is to establish: significant surcharges on those taxes that affect the registration and use of private aircraftof private pleasure craft of a certain size, as well as luxury cars, with a large displacement and/or large dimensions that use fossil fuels.