The carriers will have aid to refuel cheaper, but they will have to wait until April 1 to benefit from the reduction in fuel.

The Government has offered the sector a bonus for professional diesel that will reach 500 million euros, although it does not resolve one of the main demands of the sector: immediacy.

The Executive set the date of March 29 from the beginning to approve measures that help lower the cost of diesel, but the transport sector seemed like a date "too far away" to act.

With this urgency, the National Road Transport Committee (CNTC) attended this Monday's meeting at the Ministry of Transport, which was also joined by the Vice President of Economic Affairs, Nadia Calviño, and the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Huntsman.

However, almost eight hours of negotiation later, the employers have agreed to appease their haste and the Executive has promised to alleviate the impact of the escalation of fuels in the carriers' pockets.

Specifically, the reduction in the price of diesel will be applied from the entry into force of the royal decree-law, which will be approved on March 29, in line with what has been announced in other European countries and following a model similar to that of France , as explained by the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez, at the end of the meeting.

In this model, part of the price reduction will be supported by the public budget and another part will be borne by fuel distributors or marketers.

However, neither concord nor good intentions guarantee that the mobilizations will stop because the Platform for the Defense of the Transport of Goods, the organization convening the mobilizations, has not been present in the negotiations.

The Government does not recognize it as a valid interlocutor and, in turn, the platform does not consider itself represented by the CNTC.

In other words, the meeting was conceived as a kind of

broken telephone game

whose scope, now, remains to be verified.

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