The clash over the new electricity tariff is the first major in the coalition government after the departure of

Pablo Iglesias

and began in the same Council of Ministers, according to government sources to EL MUNDO. It was last June 1, when the fourth vice president,

Teresa Ribera

, presented her points on the agenda regarding the receipt of electricity and did not expect a great debate. The new rate was regulated in a ministerial order that had already been explained weeks before in the Delegate Commission for Economic Affairs without the ministers of Podemos raising objections.

However, in the presence of

Pedro Sánchez

, Garzón did speak and, according to the sources consulted, made comments online with consumer associations such as Facua about the upward evolution of the electricity bill and how it was getting out of hand. to the government.

We are not up to the task. You have to be faster, "he

said, according to government sources. A debate was then opened in which the agreement between the PSOE and United Podemos came to light on the so-called "benefits fallen from the sky" that Ribera attributes to, above all, the electricity companies that operate hydraulic and nuclear power plants. But it is trying to attack them slowly, according to the other wing of the government, through a long-running bill.

On the side of the PSOE they assure that Garzón was not so combative and that, in any case, there was silence from Podemos at the peak moment in the Delegate Commission for Economic Affairs. The Minister of Social Security,

José Luis Escrivá

, revealed on Antena 3 that the ministers of United We Can that are part of that commission -

Yolanda Díaz

and Garzón - did not oppose, despite the fact that the ministerial order to introduce the new rate system was discussed "in detail" under the presidency of

Nadia Calviño

. She has not yet spoken in public, but shares irritation with Ribera and other ministers about Podemos' attack on the measure. On the side of United We Can there is also internal division, because the Minister of Social Rights,

Ione Belarra

, has taken the opportunity to mark territory, and anticipate the successor designated by Pablo Iglesias, Yolanda Díaz.

"

Ione was the first to leave

and Alberto then had to say what he had said in private and in public," they say on this side of the coalition table.

The Consumer Ministry declined to comment beyond noting that

Ribera did not previously work on his ministerial order with Garzón

, despite the fact that it had a clear effect on consumers.

Unidos Podemos has connected more with the street in this area and Ribera, overwhelmed, has had to resort to asking the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) to investigate whether there has been price manipulation in the market to Keep offering a picture of activity after your stumble from the new bill.

Garzón, for his part, made it clear yesterday that he will insist on the battle at a press conference. He conveyed his "absolute concern" about the rise in electricity rates and argued that the central government is willing to support "any measure" that involves a drop in the price of basic supplies such as electricity. “

It is clear that rates, as the unions have requested, can be improved

so that families pay less. We are going to support all the measures that are destined to lower the electricity bill, "he said.

The CNMC considers it premature to tweak the system, but Garzón insisted.

like Belarra, in which the off-peak time in the consumption of electricity must be brought forward to 22:00 and dusted off the request for the creation of a public energy company that has "social" criteria and not only profit maximization .

He criticized that in the first months of this year Endesa gave an income statement with profits of more than 1,000 million euros.

"This has brought

additional benefits to the Italian public company

that is the maximum owner of Endesa, a company that at the time was a Spanish public company," he reproached, according to Efe.

For its part, the solvency rating agency Fitch described as "negative" for the electricity system the aforementioned hack by Ribera to the electricity companies for being a "political intervention" that "challenges the design of the marginal cost market at EU level and decreases the predictability of the Spanish energy regulatory framework for investors ”.

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